Colleges with the Best Dorms?

College Search & Lists
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<p>Which college in the US has the best dorms? </p>

<p>How do they compare to the dorms in Oxford and Cambridge?</p>

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<p>A rule of thumb is that the women’s colleges have the best dorms (Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Agnes Scott, Sweet Briar, etc).</p>

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Why is that?</p>

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<p>How do you expect people to be able to compare to Oxbridge dorms?!? I’m sitting in my Cambridge dorm as I write this and I couldn’t even begin to make comparisons. For starters, there is a wide range of quality within most universities.</p>

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<p>Is there any chance you can take a picture of your dorm? I am unable to find any pictures of Oxbridge dorms online.</p>

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<p>I could and would, but I doubt that it will do you any good since I’m living in graduate-only dorms. Accommodation varies from college to college. Generally first years live on college grounds though…hence, old colleges have older rooms and newer colleges have more modern rooms. Once you move out of the college into college-owned housing elsewhere in the city there’s really no way to predict what you’ll get.</p>

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<p>Loyola College In Maryland
Franklin W. Olin College Of Engineering
Smith College
Scripps College
Bryn Mawr College
The George Washington University
Washington University In St. Louis
Bowdoin College
Bennington College
Harvard College
Claremont McKenna College
Pomona College
Trinity University
Skidmore college
Mount Holyoke College
Thomas Aquinas College
Wellesley College
Pepperdine University
Stephens College
Whitman College</p>

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<p><a href=“Best College Dorms | The Princeton Review”>Best College Dorms | The Princeton Review;

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<p>LOL Erin’s Dad, that’s the list I posted above haha except without the ranks</p>

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<p>NYU has some amazing dorms. Just about all of them are converted Hotels.</p>

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<p>My D goes to NYU and she’s had really bad dorm experiences-- cockroaches and mice, miniscule quarters etc all for like more than $1,000 a month.</p>

<p>But she’s in the center of the universe!</p>

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<p>^^ there are good and bad of course, but i have gone to some parties in the VERY nice ones…lol…and I left very jealous :(</p>

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<p>NYU hands down.</p>

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<p>NuclearPackistan1, you have to learn to be as unbiased as possible when making posts like these, you’ve probably never even investigated as to which college dorms are good, you just know by visiting NYU that they have the best dorms that you’ve seen.</p>

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<p>new college of florida!!!</p>

<p>quick search yields:
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<p>private bathrooms and sun pouring in at all times!!</p>

<p>no, I am not a student there. :]</p>

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<p>haha Pierre. I have lived in New York for 18 years. And in the city for 10 of them. I feel as though I would know. You live in apartment style dorms starting freshmen year, or you at least have that option. I don’t think it gets much better than water street. (Google it)</p>

<p>I don’t feel like I have a lack of authority.</p>

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<p>I know MIT has some nice dorms…but not everyone can go to MIT.</p>

<p>I toured a lot of schools, many of which have GREAT dorms.</p>

<p>TCU and Oklahoma City University both have brand-new dorms. OCU’s were the nicest I saw, they had a nice beige color palate, nice carpet, and even molding. The double-rooms have a decent living room with a couch in the middle and a kitchen to the side, and two bedrooms off to the side. TCU’s new dorm rooms were similar but MUCH smaller, and interestingly, more expensive.</p>

<p>Oklahoma State has a hodge podge of living available to Freshman. There are historic, recently-renovated dorm buildings that are fairly expensive, brand-new apartments that are moderately priced, and of course, your plain-Jane dorm towers that are cheap. Dorm towers are usually not nice at any school.</p>

<p>OU just has dorm towers available to freshman. The dorm towers are not very nice. Upper classmen can move into nauseating suburban-style apartment complexes that are gated…I believe they’re poorly modeled off of OSU’s which are more urban-styled.</p>

<p>That’s just a few schools I visited. You’ll find that most schools are trending towards investing more and more into making dorms nicer. Just stay away from the ‘dorm towers’ and you’ll be fine. And also…don’t just live in your dorm room, but get out and experience college life! College life beats dorm life!</p>

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<p>lol mice in dorms would make me like… idk jump out the window</p>

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<p>I’m attending Pepperdine, and I’d argue that it has hands down the best, most spacious dorms of any school I toured.</p>

<p>GW is said to have great dorms, but I think the halls vary vastly. My boyfriend’s single in Mitchell was basically a cockroach-infested broom closet with a sink.</p>

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<p>I’ve heard George Washington University dorms are like palaces, or at least diserable.</p>