<p>As far as dorms go here is the best explanation I can give you.</p>
<p>G-L is by far the most popular. It is the loudest and attracts the party students but the noise might be due to the fact it is by far the biggest dorm. G-L has singles and doubles all ranging in size with a very confusing floor plan and is the oldest of the dorms. The majority of freshman live in G-L so it is a great place to meet people and the easiest when it comes to rush. </p>
<p>Davis and Gilliam are next to each other in the quad.
Davis is bigger than Gilliam but unlike Gilliam has only doubles. The rooms have sinks and the doubles arent huge or small most are the same moderate size.Gilliam is a mixture of both singles and doubles and has the student health center. Its rooms vary slightly in size and does have sinks in the rooms. </p>
<p>Gaines is behind the quad/G-L and is the furthest of the dorms. It is the newest and is the only one with air conditioning. It has a suite style living with usually consists of two singles and two doubles but there are setups with different plans. Again a mixture of singles and doubles but with Gaines your suite has its own bathroom/common area. It is important to note that Gaines has big closets that are not in the room which makes Gaines rooms bigger than they seem. Gaines is also the only dorm with a common room. Gaines has a Games room on the bottom floor. It has a kitchen and a laundry room upstairs. Gaines is for both freshman and sophomores/upperclassman but freshman live on freshman halls so they will still get the freshman experience.</p>
<p>Every hall in all four dorms gets a Resident Adviser which is a student of the same sex who lives on the hall and a Peer Counselor which is a student of the opposite sex who does not live on the hall. </p>
<p>As far as personalities, G-L is the most happening dorm and Gaines is the most isolated and quiet. Gilliam and Davis are in the middle with Davis only have doubles. Having a single on campus is quite common and therefore not a questionable choice, if you feel more comfortable living alone your freshman year dont be afraid to request a single.</p>
<p>wait so now I’m questioning my decision. I would really love to meet people and I don’t want to shove myself in a hole but I would like to get my work done so I mean I’ll still meet people in Gaines right? and in graham lees are the partiers really big partiers? because I’d like to go out once every week or two but I don’t want to be in a dorm where people are drunk often…</p>
<p>Thanks for the info., everyone! My D requested a double in Gaines, but it’s just a request so who knows where she’ll end up? She’s been invited to audition for the choirs during O-week, and she knows which volunteer venture program she wants to apply for. She’s also been looking into community service opportunities. I think she’ll be in good shape with getting involved first semester. </p>
<p>She doesn’t mind that Gaines is a bit further away, since it’s closer to the music facilities, and everything is really so close together anyway. I think some of her perspective is colored by the fact that her second choice school offered very new Honors housing in a dedicated dorm…it was suite style and very, very popular. She loved that dorm, knew that the Honors students would probably be calmer than the general population, and I think Gaines is the closest thing W&L has to that setting.</p>
<p>My daughter just told me that her host roommate at G-L wore earplugs and an eye mask every night…this was common amongst the girls on the floor. Girls were walking up and down the hallway in the middle of the night, talking and chatting and making no effort to keep their voices down (unless it was some juicy gossip ;). She said she was woken up in the middle of the night by whooping party guys running past the window. She said it was not horrible, but it just seemed a little too rowdy for her. Like a bad motel…</p>
<p>If you got a Johnson Scholarship, are you limited in your housing choice as far as price is concerned? Like, can I request a single and still not get billed extra?</p>
<p>We asked about this and here is the explanation we received from W&L. I had assumed that the scholarship covered the least expensive option, but that’s not the case. The room allowance is for the “standard” room cost, which is an average of various dorm room options (just doubles, I think). Depending on where you’re housed, your cost may be less or higher than the standard allowance; you’ll get a credit to your account if your room is cheaper, and you’ll be charged if your room is higher. All singles are higher than the standard. It looks like the room allowance is about $4250. Compare that to the housing costs listed on-line for each dorm and room type and see how much you would save or owe in relation to that allowance.</p>
<p>Thanks sciencewoman! I think I’ll just request a double.</p>