'10 Freshman: single or co-ed dorms?

sstGO27
Wed, 05 May 2010 17:45:15 +0000

It’s totally a matter of preference. I live on an all-girls floor (though I didn’t request it - a lot of people request coed so inevitably many of them will end up on single-gender floors, since it’s about half and half), and I really like it. It’s cleaner and quieter than the guys’ floors, in general, although that could definitely just be my floor having quiet girls. I’ve noticed a lot more substance use on all-male floors but again, that could just be the particular floors I’ve observed. I know of an all-girls floor where the girls became really close and never met very many male friends, which in my opinion is not a good thing - so keep in mind that that could happen.

I don’t really have an opinion either way. Like I said, I had a positive experience this year living on a single-gender floor but I think it would have been fine if it had been a mixed-gender floor.