<p>I used to live in the CT town of Trumbull, so if I end up at Yale, maybe I'll get put in Trumbull. And I'll laugh in mild amusement at the slight irony for a few seconds, then stop.</p>
<p>This post had no purpose ;)</p>
<p>nah. I live in Berkeley, but I ended up in Pierson.
the college deciders don't really have a sense of humor like that.</p>
<p>Why isn't anyone mentioning Davenport? Davenport is the awesomest college at Yale. It's newly renovated. Our dive (basement cafe) looks better than to me than the Morse/Stiles common rooms. We have a gorgeous dining hall replete with dark wood siding and a Waterford crystal chandelier (made the front page of the YDN this fall 8-) ). Freshman year you get to live in Welch, which has a good share of singles, princess suites for the girls, and good storage space. The list could go on and on, but tongue-in-cheek pretentious comparisons aside, its the people that make the college, and the Gnomes are a decently nice bunch.</p>
<p>Hmm...is there any one good source comparing all the pros and cons, etc., of each college?</p>
<p>A bit dated, but interesting about Residential Colleges</p>
<p>About Frosh housing (also a bit dated, but interesting)</p>
<p>After she got into Yale, my D said she would be fine with any college except Morse or Stiles. Naturally, she was assigned to....Stiles. And, worse, her freshman year was the year Yale was renovating a big freshman dorm, so instead of getting to live in Stiles' lovely OC freshman suits, she was exiled to Swing Space. Tears and disappointment.</p>
<p>Until, that is, she actually got to Yale and got to know her fellow Stilesians. You can guess the rest of the story. They will be lifelong friends with an unshakeable bond to their as yet unrenovated, "ugly" college. </p>
<p>Also, in Stiles you get singles from sophomore year on, and they're huge. The downside is no suites.</p>
<p>All this is completely beside the point, however, because you have no control over where you'll end up unless you are a legacy and request your parent's college.</p>
<p>btw, how was Swing Space, is it nice?
SM College is heading there next year...</p>
<p>Swing Space is not that bad, particularly if you are occupying the rooms as a double as opposed to a quad like incoming Silliman freshman and rising sophomores will have. Even so, the rooms in Swing Space as a quad far outstrip the current freshman housing in Silliman, some of which rivals L-Dub for worst housing on campus. The common rooms are smaller, but the bedrooms are bigger so you won't have to debunk beds. Not to mention you have a private bathroom, AC, and a kitchenette. The biggest downside for being in Swing Space for the class of 2010 is that freshmen will be even more isolated from the rest of their class than in previous years. Swing Space feels much more separated from campus than Silliman. This will also affect the TD frosh too, because not only will the Silliman renovation be noisy and make getting around it difficult, but having Silliman next door makes TD seem less separate from the rest of campus and vice versa.</p>
<p>All told, I think the pros outweigh the cons, and anyone in the Class of 2010 assigned to Silliman should feel lucky. One year of Swing Space is worth three years of a beautifully renovated Silliman.</p>
<p>Also, the Swing Space common rooms are furnished so you don't have to worry about that. </p>
<p>The suite kitchenettes came in handy my D's freshman year when the dining halls went on strike for a few weeks. They have a small fridge, a microwave, a sink, and if I remember right, a two-burner stove.</p>
<p>My D pointed out that unlike other Yale residence halls, Swing Space rooms are connected by hallways on the same floor rather than entryways, making it much easier to meet and interact with a larger number of students.</p>
<p>Another good feature that comes to mind is that each floor is supplied with study room/lounges where you can take refuge if your suite is out of control, or have a larger gathering than can fit in the suites. </p>
<p>Stiles, where she lives, has the closest dining hall to Swing Space so lots of Swing Space residents eat there, which my D has enjoyed because she has met new friends that way.</p>
<p>The big downside is that the building is pretty far away from other stuff on campus. It was fine for my D's freshman year though because it housed freshmen from three colleges and they all got to know each other.</p>
<p>Thanks for the good info on Swing Space.
(My S is SM '08 & his sis was accepted EA for class 2010!)</p>
<p>Q about the private bathroom:
is that cleaned by the custodial staff, or each suite/room has to clean it?
I've heard that (in other univ) this often led to very "unclean" suites,
if the roommates don't all step up to do it regularly!</p>
<p>Which res coll have private bathrooms?</p>
<p>fbc..yes, you get to clean them!!</p>
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<p>you get to clean them Oh no!</p>
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<p>Even though private bath is supposed to be nicer,
but not when each suite doesn't quite step up to clean it themselves!</p>
<p>Most colleges have some combination of private and hall bathrooms. Last year my Vanderbilt suite had a hall bathroom but the corresponding suite in the adjacent entryway had a private bathroom for some reason. Knowing those guys, they would never have cleaned it if one of them didn't have a live-in girlfriend who cleaned it for them all the time...</p>
<p>It would be AWESOME if the dining hall staff went on strike (other than the noise and having to walk through picket lines occasionally). Yale dispenses the amount that you pay per meal through the meal plan back to you in the form of checks, and given the rip-off that is the meal plan, my friends ate in nice restaurants every day.</p>
<p>My D endured two dining hall worker strikes and, believe me, you don't want them. Everyone got royally sick of eating grinders or Thai takeout, and they really, really, really missed being able to see their friends in their college's dining hall. That's a big center of social interaction at Yale.</p>
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<p>you should want silliman. because we're getting a $100 million dollar renovation next year. which means, yes, as a freshman you'll live in swing space, but then you get 3 YEARS in a brand new college. honestly. it's going to be sweet. plus the whole old campus thing is kinda overrated.
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and just for some comparison of costs...</p>
<p>silliman renovation next year: $100 million
yale could buy every silliman student a $250,000 house with that money.</p>
<p>the next closest renovation in costs: Davenport and Pierson...each about $60 million</p>
<p>and it all goes down from there....</p>
<p>silliman = sweet.
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<p>haha, I've decided Silliman is the only one that sticks out as a possible "favorite", but that's only because I saw its courtyard and really loved it and BDD, and because I'll be taking some of my favorite classes with Dean Flick and that's just convenient :p lol and because the accomodations seem nice. But pfft, those are bad reasons ;)</p>