<p>everyone post your experiences visiting each campus!</p>
<p>pay attention to the dorms.. </p>
<p>be very critical and detail-oriented (eg, "when we visited the dorms, i noticed the beds were a bit small. i also noticed the kids didn't have much time to clean their rooms, so i guess they're busy. also, i saw a bob marley poster, so i guess the students have time to chill every now and then. the common room was very clean.. i guess they care about the facilities. the campus was particularly cold because there arent' any buildings to block the strong atlentic winds.. etc etc etc... stuff you will not find on the website and in a brochure)..</p>
<p>I liked the dorms better at Choate than anywhere else. Some were in very small houses (one-floor, three rooms) but others were larger. I liked how new students had their names tacked up on the walls with their roommates with little decorations on them - like they had at camp. It made me feel very welcome. Surprisingly, when I visited someone's dorm, their room was very messy, but it reminded me of classic roommate tradition. At Choate, the rooms were medium-sized, and I liked how everyone there had roommates and were not separated, so I can talk to my roommate at night. </p>
<p>Andover:</p>
<p>While some people may like the setup of the dorms (desks in one room, beds in the other), I felt it was a little too professional. I visited one kid's room and it was extremely anal/neat. It scared me a little.</p>
<p>oh at choate we basically knocked on some random girl's door (it was pretty early too) and idk the guide woke her up (!) or something. lol i felt so bad. it did seem cozy tho.</p>
<p>I know, I thought it was really cute how at Choate we had to wake people up; we didn't just walk into an empty person's room. I mean, a person's empty room. Not an empty person. ;)</p>
<p>My tour guide kept asking her friends if she could use their room. I liked that she showed me a double - only double in three schools.</p>
<p>.... i would be so freaked out if a family walked into my room when i was sleeping. i would be like, "um. hi. make yourself at home... i'm going back to bed"</p>
<p>I like it that way. They had family/children at Deerfield, but I didn't feel as close to the tour guide as I would have if my mother had her separate one, so we could ask different questions and have a one-on-one talk.</p>
<p>Do many people have seperate tours? At all the tours I've had (Andover, Concord, Milton, Deerfield, St. Mark's, and Exeter), they did not have a seperate tour for my grandmother and I.</p>
<p>Oh, right, the actual question. I'll do Deerfield.
The Deerfield campus is quite rural, and in the center of the town of Historic Deerfield. It is not officially part of Historic Deerfield, but the two are deeply intertwined. The dormitories are houses that look quite old (the funny thing was there was one dorm that's three years old that could have passed for a hundred and fifty), and they're beautiful, in my opinion. Most kids have singles, and their rooms were pretty neat, but not super-clean. The only real downside about the campus itself that I found was that the library is kind of a modern building, so it's not nearly as pretty as most of the others. One thing that I really liked was how clean and fresh the campus seemed, and that the atheletic fields are huge and plentiful. All right, I'm kind of babbling now, so I'll stopl. :D Main point: Deerfield is rural, large, and very pretty, with mainly single dorms.</p>
<p>Regarding question about separate tours - we had separate tours at Choate and Pomfret, single guide at Deerfield, Hotchkiss, Berkshire and Taft.</p>
<p>i m gonna guess u can request seperate tours at hotchkiss ...i had been a tour guide and we always have 4 or 5 back ups for each time slots so they are definitely people avalible</p>
<p>well i can say that those andover dorms seemed pretty spiffy to me... they look more like bedrooms than anything else, very clean and spacious. :D</p>
<p>Bump! I think this is a really cool thread haha.</p>
<p>When I went to PASS, my room was pretty small, but my bed, desk, and dresser were all in the same room. One thing I HATED was in one of the dorms, there was a separate room for the bed and the desk, and the BEDroom was INCREDIBLY small. You couldn't even walk around. It was probably 6 x 6, it that. haha.</p>
<p>I lived in a house, and most of the rooms were perfect sizes, and one kid had a fireplace and a walk in closet! Our common room had a TV, refrigerator, etc. Toward the end I realized how lucky I was to have a TV in the common room. Most dorms didn't have one!</p>
<p>My first year, I lived in a single in McConnell (which has all singles, same-size). It was nice enough - large wooden cabinets rather than a closet, built-in bookshelves rather than actual movable bookshelves. It was very, very small, but comfortable enough, I suppose. (ie, room for a bed with bookshelf built-in over it, desk, round chair, and a space in the middle just big enough for two or three people to lie down side-by-side). The dormitory itself is quite nice and close, but the building is very modern and not exactly lovely.</p>
<p>I moved to Dunbar my second year, which is also on the South side of the campus, and is known for having larger rooms, among other things. I got one of the smallest rooms in the dorm, but it was still about twice the size of my McConnell Room (room for a bed, round chair, couch, tons of bookshelves, chest of drawers, etc., plus a seperate closet). It was really nice; I loved it.</p>
<p>Now, (senior year), I'm living in one of the largest rooms in the dorm. It's on fourth floor, which means quite a walk, but it's balanced out with nicely sloping ceilings (plus a little bay-window-nook-thing), huge amount of space (it feels like more, since I bought a loft bed). It's always messy, but I love it. It feels very homey. I spend a lot of time hermiting up in my room, so it's good to have...</p>