<p>What is the arrangement of dorm rooms at Princeton? Are all the floors single-sex and the residential colleges coed? Or is there a residential college that only has single-sex dorms?</p>
<p>All the residential colleges are coed. The suites are all single sex, but the floors and entryways are mostly coed, except for a few single-sex dorms. All bathrooms are single sex.</p>
<p>hmm - That's interesting because I remember my tourguide pointing to one building on campus and commenting; "That's the convent where only girl's stay." :p</p>
<p>Doesn't the housing form has some section that asks about housing preference: single-sex or co-ed? Why do they ask this if every residential college is coed? </p>
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aparent5 - Could you please explain this. If all the residential colleges are coed, how can there be single-sex dorms? Do you mean some res colleges have a cluster of dorm rooms that are single sex? Or are the actual rooms single-sex because there is also the option to share a room with someone of the opposite sex?</p>
<p>All rooms are allotted to people of the same sex. A residential college is made up of a group of dorms. One of these dorms may be single sex. However, no entire residential college is single sex.</p>
<p>Ah okay - Thanks for clearing that up aparent.
So which residential colleges have single-sex dorms?</p>
<p>do they have rules that you can't have females in an all male dorm?</p>
<p>yea, i was curious as to whether my girlfriend from another school (i'm a guy...) would be able to spend the night in my dorm room when she comes up to visit me? is there a rule for females/non-princeton students not being allowed to spend the night in a male dorm room? if so, is that rule enforced?</p>
<p>There are no such rules. Roommates do not necessarily appreciate being sexiled frequently, however, and so generally students talk these things over, set up futons in common rooms, etc. The whole approach to being roommates is very civilized at Princeton; you are not allowed to choose a bed when you arrive until all of your roommates are present and you can all talk things over together. </p>
<p>I don't know which dorms will be single sex next year.</p>
<p>i would think pton students would be the most mature to women, rather than a state school student (on avg)... that is great that the rules are relaxed.</p>
<p>I highly doubt that assumption is true.</p>
<p>so what does the single sex/coed option on the housing form really mean?</p>
<p>It means, do you want to be in a dorm or area of a dorm housing members of your same sex only? Or do you want to be in a dorm where single-sex suites, doubles, and singles -- housing either men or women -- are mixed together in the same hallways and entryways?</p>
<p>Oh OK. So either way, you'll only have roommates of the same sex, right?</p>
<p>(Yes I'm obtuse :p)</p>
<p>That's right, either way, you will only have roommates (or quadmates or suitemates) of the same sex. And you will only share a bathroom with people of the same sex. But your dining hall and other residential college facilities will be coed.</p>
<p>are there any tangible advantages in choosing single sex?</p>
<p>Yeah. What are the benefits of Princeton's single-sex dorms?</p>
<p>The housing forms ask for your preferences so that you'll be comfortable, and they attempt to match as many preferences as they can. Haven't seen this year's housing form, but last year's asked single-sex or coed area (or no preference)--meaning, who do you want as neighbors? Would you be more comfortable with all women in your area, or would you rather have it be a mix, with guys next door or across the hall possibly? Just preference, if you have one, and I'm not sure that it would necessarily be a whole dorm of single sex. A lot of the dorms are divided by entryways, or they could do it by floor. Not really sure how they'll divide things for next year, or if your form will be exactly the same as this year's.</p>