<p>^LOL. I know lots of kids want suites for private bathrooms. But I like bathrooms on the hall - someone else cleans them and you get out and meet other people on the hall. My oldest wouldn’t even go on most dorm tours, he said they all looked the same. He ended up in a dorm room that IMO was way, way nicer than any on the tour, but it was a 10 minute walk off campus. He liked it so much he kept the room for two years. </p>
<p>We saw dorms at Caltech (where I would argue they are a very important part of the culture), RPI (super ugly), Brandeis (even uglier), Tufts (pretty bad), Carnegie Mellon (newest building, A/C but tiny rooms), Vassar (downstairs only, so reminded me of Radcliffe and my boarding school). Chicago, and American no dorms on the tour but sons did an overnight. Stanford, only saw the dining hall of a dorm. Georgetown, Bard saw nothing but outsides of dorms.</p>
<p>We usually saw classroom or lecture hall, often saw science labs, always saw student center and cafeteria.</p>
<p>I don’t actually mind if you can only see dorms on line, but my pet peeve is the floor plans are often inaccurate. Son’s first room at Tufts turned out to be bigger and better designed than what was on the plan! His second one is just awful - it’s a newer building and the architect should be ashamed. My son can’t sit up in bed without hitting his head on the ceiling.</p>