joolia

Hi
I'm going to be a freshman at Brandeis this fall...and I'm about to start on the housing application. Can anyone tell me what the mixed-gender-floor dorms and the single-gender-floor dorms are like? What kind of dorms do most people prefer?

Stain99

All dorms are co-ed but not all floors are. In both of the freshmen quads, North and Massel, there is one dorm that is co-ed by floor. This means that guys and girls live on the same hall. In all of the other dorms the floors are single sex. I think you are in a good situation no matter where you live. North is closer to the humanities quad Rabb and the Usdan dining hall, and Massell is closer to the Shapiro campus center, the science quad, and the Sherman dining hall. I think the co-ed dorms tend to be noiser at later hours. Don't choose a co-ed floor if you don't want to live with the opposite sex and use the same bathrooms as them.

joolia

Thanks for the answer!
Do we get to choose between North and Massel or do they assign us to one of them?

Stain99

You can request a dorm but I don't think that holds much weight. I requested Massel co-ed and got single-sex North, go figure.

sulsk

If you want single sex, you'll get single sex. If you want co-ed, it's not a gurantee simply because the demand for co-ed floors is so high.

cocacola12oz

is it ackward sharing bathrooms with guys/girls?

whenwillitbeover

wow, that's surprising to me...I thought most people would want single sex.