<p>hey i am just really excited to have everyone on campus- all of you should come... if you have any questions or concerns post here or message me.</p>
<p>Thx. I have a few questions. </p>
<p>1) When is a deposit due? And how much? I didn't see anything in my accepatance package.</p>
<p>2) What are the dorm options? What are the pros and cons to each?</p>
<p>3) Around breaktime - do more busses run to and from the campous to Logan?</p>
<p>Dartmouth has no deposit, unless they have a different policy for internationals; my enrollment form said just send it in, with no deposit required.</p>
<p>ya actually i was just wondering about the same thing as galwain626:
Do we get a choice of dorms to stay in? if so, what are the best choices from ur experience (and why)?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Eorl/housing/communities/%5B/url%5D">http://www.dartmouth.edu/~orl/housing/communities/</a> </p>
<p>above links are from sybbie719 in a different thread about housing.</p>
<p>Dartmouth College does not require a deposit.
Beginning in May, the various departments on campus will begin to mail information on everything from housing to student accounts.</p>
<p>Below is housing opinions from dckloud and leafsfan in a different questions thread </p>
<p>leafsfan's opinion:
first year housing at dartmouth is definitely a pretty broad scope. I live in the choates which i personally think is the most amazing thing ever. choates can be hit or miss for rooms--singles are huge and doubles can be really small.. i am definitely in the smallest double in the choates but seriously it doesn't matter at all. the beds raise up 4 feet so theres tonnes of storage space underneath and i just don;'t think that the room size is a really big deal. the choates are the crazy dorms that are pretty loud all the time--there;s small halls and people are pretty close together but it's just a lot of fun and you end up konwing everyone in your dorm.</p>
<p>mclaughlin is huge. the rooms are huge, the cluster is huge, the hallways are huge. i think that most rooms are 2 room doubles and are really nice and new (obvi) most people i know who live there really like it even though it's a bit far from most things on campus. fahey/mclaine is the same set up with huge rooms but is sweet b/c it's right in the center of campus.</p>
<p>the river pretty much sucks. it's really far away which is why i wouldnt' be able to deal! but rooms are pretty big and people who live there get really close b/c they never leave their dorms!</p>
<p>the housing offics just wants to put you where you'll be happy as long as that means that it all sorts out. on my form i actually wrote "i wanna live in the choates" and it all worked out. personally i think that all-freshmen housing is the way to go but most people seem really happy with how things worked out.</p>
<p>dckloud's opinion: </p>
<p>As for the Dorms,</p>
<p>I wish I had a digital camera to take pictures with, but I don't.
The river dorms are really ugly both outside, and in the hallways, but they're quite roomy. Most rooms in the River dorms are 2 room doubles, 3 room doubles (2 singles and a common room), or singles.
The Choates are dorms built in the late 50's, and purposely very boxy. Back in the day, they were on the cutting edge of architecture. Now they're just ugly. The guy who designed the Choates dorm also designed graduate housing for Harvard. The dorms have a kitchen and big common room in a separate building but are connected to the building by glass bridge-tunnels. The idea was to bring people from separate buildings together into a large common room. Rooms in the choates are pretty comfortable. The third floors of all the dorms in the Choates are comprised mostly of spacious singles. I ended up with a <em>huge</em> corner single, which is the same size as many doubles. The college actually had more singles than people requested, for the class of 2010. So if you ask for a single, I'm pretty sure you'll get one. </p>
<p>The new McLaughlin dorms on campus are all amazing. The hallways are really wide, and I've heard of people riding bikes through the halls there. The dorms also have many bathrooms on a floor, and its designed so that each bathroom is really only used by 2 rooms (about 4 people). It's hard to explain without looking at the floor plan. Most of the rooms in the new dorms are 2 room doubles, so they're very spacious. The default setup in these rooms is with 2 beds in one room, and 2 desks in the other room. This means you can sleep while your room mate studies in the other room. Some people choose to seperate the two room double into 2 singles. You get a bit more privacy this way.</p>
<p>The Russel Sage dorms are mixed housing, but they try to make all-freshmen floors. The dorms seemed pretty nice when I visited, with plenty of wood paneling and private half-baths. </p>
<p>The Fahey and Mclane dormitories are set up on the inside just like the McLaughlin dorms, except they have a different look on the outside. Fahey-Mclane and Russel Sage together are called "Tuck Mall", and they have the most central location on campus. I'd say Fahey and Mclane are the best dorms for freshmen, or anyone really.</p>
<p>East Wheelock is really nice on the inside, and <em>very</em> spacious. These are defn. the best dorms physically, but some ppl claim the dorms are a bit far from the main campus. This isn't true, as the East Wheelock dorms are closer to the green than the River dorms. And it's really still only a 5-10 min. walk. East Wheelock is also right across from the gym, and has its own snack bar which runs at night. East Wheelock has an anti-social, nerd, and Asian stereotype. However, most of the people I've met from East Wheelock are actually some of the coolest and chillest people I've met on campus, and I plan on applying there for sophomore housing (I got stuck with a horrible room draw number)</p>
<p>I live in the Choates right now.</p>
<p>I am an ED Dartmouth guy. I am visiting Dartmouth next week before Dimensions weekend. I was just wondering what I should do to visit dorms or sit in on classes. Thanks</p>
<p>the choates are really fun to live in. they don't have the most convenient location (though they are right next to frat row) and they don't have the nicest or biggest rooms, but i really enjoyed living there.</p>