<p>Any current undergrad want to elaborate on freshmen dorms...i.e. rank them in order from best to worst? Just wondering what to expect.</p>
<p>I hear good things about Wigglesworth. Maybe we'll get lucky this time and Harvard will have a shortage of students, thus enabling everyone in a setup like Wigglesworth (normally two singles and one double in a suite) to all have singles?</p>
<p>Man I can't wait to see what the dorms are like. I think I'm going to be visiting my friend's relative there at some point. Looking forward to that and that visitation thing at the end of April.</p>
<p>Not all of wigg is 1 double and 2 singles - I live in wigg and have 2 doubles but as a result a larger common room. Depends which entryway you live in and which floor (usually third floor has the 1 double and 2 single setup).</p>
<p>The best dorms are largely opinion but these are generally the most sought after:</p>
<ol>
<li>Apley Court (wasn't open due to renovations this year, though I think they let some Katrina transfers stay there for the semester)</li>
<li>Grays</li>
<li>Weld</li>
<li>Thayer</li>
<li>some would say Matthews though the quality varies widely</li>
</ol>
<p>least sought after dorms</p>
<ol>
<li>Canaday aka "the projects" (rooms are fine - but it is the ugliest dorm built in the 70s)</li>
<li>Mass Hall (oldest dorm, rumor has it that they usually put those who are quiet/study in this dorm because the administration works in this building as well)</li>
<li>Greenough/Hurlbut/Pennypacker due to location away from the yard</li>
</ol>
<p>The rest fall somewhere in between. Keep in mind, even in the best dorms you may get a bad room or in a bad dorm an exceptionally good room - it's all luck of the draw.</p>
<p>Thanks for the valuable info, chewy3. I am definitely making a note of all that.</p>
<p>hahaha! sailor, what do you listen to? I can certainly stand my share of Ayumi Hamasaki... :)</p>
<p>and yes, Apley Ct and Weld were always my favs...</p>
<p>I'm pretty terrible with it...yeah, Ayumi and Hikaru, Namie Amuro, etc. Which means it's doubly annoying to listeners of Japanese music, I would assume.</p>
<p>Availability of singles depends on the house you're in. Some of them have a lot of singles (Quad houses, Leverett) or single bedrooms attached to suites (Mather). Canaday, Greenough and Hurlbut offer singles to freshmen. Suites at Harvard are usually described as n, n + 1, etc., where the equation describes the number of rooms in the suite, excluding bathrooms, and n is the number of people. n or n - 1 setups are most common for freshmen; n + 1 is rare.</p>