Academically my daughter seems to be a good fit and will be applying to MIT. We have visited and there are many aspects that she is very excited about. One potential deal killer though is housing. She has a diagnosed medical issue that precludes her from being in a bunked bed situation. She can’t be under another bed nor lofted at all. Having a bathroom in the very immediate vicinity is also very important with some level of privacy like a few rooms shared bathroom not a whole hall. She does not want a single room. I assume when she submits her medical info they will just assign her a room and she would not get to take part in the housing “rush” type system? Will this be noticeable and completely awkward? She would be extremely uncomfortable having to tell a bunch of people she doesn’t know about her disorder. If there are a number of dorms that would fit she would be fine doing the “rush” as long as she was ultimately going to be able to be assigned to a fitting room type without having to talk about it with her peers.
@acdchai Interesting…
Most of the dorm beds are bunk-able, so you can always separate them so that they are not bunked.
In terms of bathrooms, some of the dorms are laid out suite-style (e.g. BC, MacGregor, New, but MacGregor is pretty much all singles) and the student:bathroom ratio is generally 4:1 to 6:1. Other dorms have bathrooms spread out throughout the floor. A lot of Simmons doubles have their own bathroom which is nice.
If she gets accepted to MIT, when you or she does the housing lottery just put her top dorm choices regardless, then she can mention her constraints on room during in-house rush (a lot of dorms/living groups do this a bit differently).
My son has a close friend who is a 2nd year and I’m pretty sure they just gave him an assigned room and he went to the various housing rush activities knowing he wasn’t going to move.
If she is admitted, http://mit.edu/uaap/sds/ should be able to help coordinate accommodations for her.