<p>Dorms are ok…nothing special. My daughter is in the honors dorm and it is coed on every floor, clean, wireless, with hall bathrooms that seem acceptable. The rooms are adequate in size. </p>
<p>The outstanding feature of UD has been the almost uniform level of positivity from everyone we encountered…students, faculty, administration, parents, alums, parents of alums, etc. I literally could not find anyone who had anything bad to say other than it is not ranked as highly as schools that rank higher…dah. </p>
<p>For my daughter, UD started out as a super safety school, but as the search went on it kept rising on her list. In the end it came down to william and mary, university of Richmond, wake forest, and villanova. Just aver noon at “Day for accepted students” she said, I don’t want to disappoint you, but I want to go to UD". I was very happy on so many levels, but mainly because she had arrived at that decision after a rigorous process. </p>
<p>I would say, if UD is a serious contender for your son, spend some quality time there. It really is different. I sort of fell like there are schools that individually score higher on the key attributes, but it is hard to find a school that scores so highly and constantly across so many attributes. In fact, in our search, only UVA fared better across the board, but alas, she only got wait listed there. Having said that, UD’s proximity and access to DC, Philly, Baltimore, NYC, and the beach, meant a lot to my daughter. Finally, newark’s mainstreet just adjacent to campus is one of the nicest off-campus college town downtowns that we encountered.</p>