<p>Could someone tell me which residential colleges have elevators in them and which res college associated freshman residences have elevators? I tore my ACL last year and am still having some trouble with it and do not know if I should request a dorm with an elevator.</p>
<p>I have never been inside a residential college except for the dining area so I can't really tell how many floors the average college/freshman residence is.</p>
<p>Much of Yale’s housing is built on a system of vertical entry-ways rather than horizontal corridors, which means not too many elevators, but an entry-way has a ground floor. You should definitely put in a request for accessible housing.</p>
<p>You could request a medical single from your residential college that will be on the first floor. or you could request to be on the first floor on old campus. that would probably be a better option so you’re not isolated from the freshmen in your college. as for elevators, bingham on the trumbull side has one. morse and stiles also have elevators. not sure about the other colleges except davenport and pierson which do not have elevators. but you could live on the first floor.</p>
<p>WOW.</p>
<p>sorry, 10char</p>
<p>contact the office of disabilities to let them know about your situation. They can probably hook you up with a first floor room, or if you can’t go up any stairs (all the first floor rooms that freshmen live in still require going up a few stairs), they can probably give you a medical single in your college. But it would suck to start freshman year off in a medical single.</p>
<p>Bingham, entryway C has an elevator (Calhoun and Trumbull). [But first floor works fine too.] I don’t think any college has elevators that go to rooms. Most of them are just for public areas (like Calhoun and Silliman).</p>
<p>I don’t know about post-restoration, but Saybrook used to have an elevator for the resident faculty apartments. Students weren’t generally allowed to use it, but there were a number of rooms that it could have served.</p>
<p>Thanks for everyone’s concern, but it really isnt as bad as I think people have interpreted it. It is just sometimes nagging but what I wouldn’t want to happen is be placed in bingham (which I knew was huge but didnt know had an elevator) or another tall building on the top floor and have to climb it every day with books and stuff. Otherwise I am running, climbing stairs, and whatnot.</p>
<p>If anyone had more information for the rest of the colleges/freshman residences that would really helpful.</p>
<p>Send them a letter asap saying you would like to be placed on the first or second floors irrespective of the college you get into.</p>
<p>Re: Bingham. The prettiest almost unknown room on campus is the CompLit library in the tower. </p>
<p>Also, the roof is very cool but the school tends to keep that locked up tight. We had one too many parties there.</p>
<p>You don’t have to worry about Bingham. If you’re in Trumbull, you’ll be in either entryway D or entryway C, 4-9 floors. Everyone uses the elevator for those rooms anyways. Definitely tell Yale that you have a hurt leg or something and would like to be placed on the ground floor or something. This might not be possible in every case, due to the fact that each floor is gender-specific and has probably already been set.</p>