<p>pepperdine dorms are like newly built apartments</p>
<p>Bullwinkle, Berkeley's dorms are, in general, much larger than UCLA's. Also, there are more options here, such as Bowles/Foothill/Stern, which are more in greenery and look like a castle (Bowles) or cabins (the other two). Did you even know about all of these dorms, or did you just give your opinion with very limited information?</p>
<p>Harvards dorms are amazing and the new dorms at u of dayton are really nice</p>
<p>I like NYU dorms actually, they have private bathrooms which i find nice. The hall itself is gross. It looks kind of rundown and stuff from the outside and general hall is rundownish. but the room itself is quite nice, some have pantrys and all have private bathrooms.</p>
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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.
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Ahhh, yes. Parkside Suites is THE best freshman dorm on campus! And while it is termed as the "International Residential College", only half of its residents are International. We also just got a brand new ping pong table a few weeks ago, in addition to our two pool tables. The only bad thing is that the customer service center sucks. Never seen lazier people in my life. Except for the Radisson, all the other Freshman dorms aren't that great.</p>
<p>Almost all the non-freshman who live in university housing have apartments. Most of the apartment buildings are nice (and the largest one is being renovated this year)</p>
<p>Speaking of it, USC owns the entire Radisson hotel, which is why they have several floors used as dorms.</p>
<p>Fordham Lincoln Center probably has some of the nicest dorms in the country. They are all located in one highrise apartment building, so no one's in a crappy dorm, and every room is suite/apartment-style, with two or three bedrooms, a bathroom, a fully-equipped kitchen, and a living room. The bedrooms alone are larger than most college's dorms. Everything is fairly new and very well-kept. What's more, the apartment is adjacent to the school, so you don't even need to walk outside to get to class if it's too cold or wet. The best part is, you're living in a classy neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in a roomy (by NYC standards) apartment for a fraction of the normal cost.</p>
<p>You all are amking me jealous! My dorm is full of cool folk, but the layout reminds me of an institution. I think it was modelled after a prison, honestly.</p>
<p>The worst is when the university builds new dorms and they positively suck.</p>
<p>Nobody has said the obvious... Loyola? i hear they have apartment style dorms for freshman</p>
<p>I'm living at UCLA right now in the Suites, and these are pleanty big. The regular dorm rooms here are pretty tiny however.</p>
<p>The UCLA suites are alright. My brother lived in them, so I've experienced them plenty, but with three people in the room, it was pretty bad. The main advantage was the bathroom, which was sweet. The new suies here are much larger. When it comes to the "normal" rooms, I haven't looked at UCLA.</p>
<p>Michigan State has a nice variety of dorms. Many on the old north campus are traditional LAC types: ivy-covered Gothic, interior wood paneling, fireplace lounges with some antique furniture and pianos, beautiful sun porches, the whole nine-- this area of campus, not surprisingly, is the home of most of MSUs liberal arts programs. Though these dorms are loaded with character, and large rooms (with a number of singles) they do have community bathrooms -- some hate them; others tolerate them... Newer large complexes are nice in their own way -- though rooms are small but contain private bathrooms shared with another adjacent "suite" room. These bigger dorms contain classrooms, faculty offices, libraries, etc. These complexes include MSUs renowned residential colleges: James Madison and Lyman Briggs.</p>
<p>DRab that might be true. My roommate never showed up so as of right now I've got a single. I'm not hurting for space at all at the moment!</p>
<p>Enjoy it while you can! My suitemate (guy in my suite but not my room) loved his "single," but not so much when his roommate and he didn't quite get along so well.</p>
<p>I've compared both UCLA and Cal dorms (with real personal experience, okay?), and they're about the same. UCLA wins for food, Cal wins for space. Both are about the same in terms of furnishings and "feel."</p>
<p>The new dorms at UCLA though, I think are a tad better than most of the Cal dorms. But, either way, both are about the same.</p>
<p>And for the record, the worst dorms on earth are in Japan. TRUST ME. </p>
<p>Kings? is that the college at cambridge or was it oxford or the separate one? I know people who go to Imp. College and they say their dorms are lush although the weather there is gastly... </p>
<p>What are Princeton's Dorms like? anyone know?</p>
<p>Some of the nicest dorms we have seen:
Trinity University in Texas (private balconies, huge rooms)
Pepperdine(suites)
Pomona
University of San Diego(my D has views of Mission Bay from her room and a huge suite)</p>
<p>morningtheft means the King's College which is part of the University of London, not the King's College which is part of the University of Cambridge (that's the one that sings carols at Christmas). There's no King's College at Oxford (unless you take the full name of Brasenose College!)</p>
<p>It's still not unusual at Oxbridge for a student to have a two room 'set' (sitting room and bedroom) to him/herself.</p>
<p>Oh, sure, the new dorms at UCLA are better than the average dorms here, I agree, in terms of almost everything but the social contact (which some like and some dislike) of really tight-packed dorms.</p>
<p>And sadly you guys have the dorm food that is better.</p>