<p>Which have really bad dorms?</p>
<p>private schools will usually have nicer dorms. i know at dartmouth some dorms have fireplaces.</p>
<p>Stanford has best dorms because they have freshman dorms with beachfront view (I heard). Fordham LC has good dorms too because they have high rise apartment suites equipped with kitchen, dining room, living room and private baths (of course) for freshman in New York City's Upper West Side.</p>
<p>GWu and Northeastern have really nice dorms. University of Maryland has horrible dorms if u dont count the courtyard</p>
<p>Private schools and LACs have the best. For example, some rooms at Bryn Mawr have stained glass, fireplaces, and hardwoor floors.</p>
<p>No beachfront views in Stanford, the beach is 45 mins away.</p>
<p>i stayed at one of princeton's dorms for a summer program, and it was a pretty terrible, run-down place.</p>
<p>Northeastern has alright dorms - as long as you are NOT a freshman.</p>
<p>George Washington University
Pepperdine University
Santa Clara University
Stanford University</p>
<p>washu, nyu, gw</p>
<p>classwarrior, just curious, do you remember which of Princeton's dorms you stayed in?</p>
<p>BTW, I've heard that Trinity in DC has some pretty rough looking dorms and this is the opinion of a student there. Teikyo Post right here in CT did not have really nice dorms. At least from what I saw.</p>
<p>What you've heard about Trinity is right... I stayed there over the summer for a government workshop and the dorms are ****holes. My friends at NYU have some pretty nice places, though.</p>
<p>i have a pretty nice dorm at michigan.... carpeted floors, bathroom, shower, bathtub, closets... it was an old hotel and they made dorms out of the rooms. it's connected to the student union</p>
<p>Fordham-lincoln Center!</p>
<p>I visited Claremont McKenna and those kids have some pretty nice dorms. It's interesting to note that since the campus is pretty small, there are dorms right on the rectangular-shaped "main quad" area of the school. The dorms are somewhat motel-style, in the design and function-- long, two story, and every two rooms to one bathroom. The rooms were carpeted, I think. The bathrooms were fairly nice.</p>
<p>I also visited Uni. of Southern California, and while some of the dorms are sort of ratty and older (especially the Honors students' dorms), there were nicer ones. For instance, Parkside Suites, which are newly built and the "international dorm." They have a lovely new cafeteria, carpeted floors, new elevators, and great suites with well-sized bathrooms. It's nice to live in a new place-- cleaner, far better condition. Also, kids can be put into the Radissson across the street-- 'SC has bought or rented out a couple of floors of the hotel for their students.</p>
<p>As for BAD dorms... GA Tech is known for housing its students in cell blocks. Here's a funny little story about the Tech dorm room. Unlike most colleges, the "showcase dorm room" wasn't a real student's room. It was a model room. It was attatched to the side of a real dorm, with access from the back of the building-- so people on tour would not have to actually go into the dorm hall to see the room. Our tour guide let us into the model room from the parking lot entrance, then rushed us out the same way. We couldn't even get a look into a real dorm room or even a real dorm hall at Tech. And from my friends' experiences, that would have been preferable because they weren't really expecting such little cell blocks.</p>
<p>Another Claremont Consortium school, Pitzer, has pretty ratty, older dorms. It might have just been the one we went into, but the room smelled like dirty water and mold. If the "showcase dorm room" smelled funky, I can't imagine what the "regular" rooms smelled or looked like.</p>
<p>Wellesley has nice dorms on the outside (nice waiting areas, fireplaces) but the actual rooms are kinda lackluster</p>
<p>Williams had nice suites</p>
<p>Smith rooms are generally nice looking, unique, lots of ...character. Good for hide and seek</p>
<p>UT-Austin basically puts kids in plywood boxes...but they're not actually so bad for boxes. They grow on you.</p>
<p>yes pitzer has awful dorms... pomona has some of the best. pepperdine (ew) too.</p>
<p>I don't think you can rate a schools dorms because at every school there are good dorms and bad dorms. Some schools that have really nice dorms(ie the nicest) also have some terrible dorms. I wouldn't decide on a school based on their dorms. All are inhabitable and will be only as bad(or good) as you make them.</p>
<p>gotta agree with the post above that private schools will typically have the nicer dorms. Even with that though there can be a real mix or old and new, good and bad on any given campus.</p>
<p>For example, Univ of southern California has some real dungeons and some decent stuff (all very limited pretty much to freshman only anyway). Pepperdine has very nice dorms as does Pomona. Claremont's are decent. UCLA's (the ones I've seen at least) are like little prison cells. I like the post above about Stanford's beachfront views - there ain't a beach anywhere near Stanford- their dorms in general are ok. Berkeley's dorms are horrific IMO. Bottom line every school is very different and at any given school there's a big range of what's there. Often just the luck of the draw.</p>
<p>I'm going to King's College London and my dorm is in a really nice neighborhood in the center of London and I have my own room and a private bathroom :D</p>
<p>(sorry, just found out today! i can't help but brag a bit :D)</p>