<p>It’s true, no choice, and a lot of times the best freshman housing leads to worse upper class housing, and vice versa (example: Morse and Stiles have awesome dorms on Old Campus, and Saybrook and Pierson are pretty nice one you escape Ldub).</p>
<p>Anyway, Farnam, Durfee, Lawrance, and Welch are all pretty nice. Suites of about 6 or so (some exceptions) with a pretty good number of singles. Those are housing for JE, Morse, Stiles, and Davenport. JE is the only place you’ll get awesome housing every year you’re at Yale, because JE is objectively the best.</p>
<p>Lanman-Wright for Pierson and Saybrook is…well…it’s a rite of passage. The colleges are beautiful. Vanderbilt (for Branford and Berkeley) and Bingham (for Calhoun and Trumbull) are pretty middle of the road - not a lot of singles and there’s not much room but the situation is better than L-W.</p>
<p>I don’t know much about freshman housing in TD or Silliman, where freshmen live in college, but they seem decent enough.</p>