What are the dorms like at BC for guys and girls? Like is one floor dedicated to girls and the next to females? Or is it like one dorm to girls one dorm to guys etc? I just don’t know. Thanks!
Typically that info is on the residential life webpage. But I don’t see it. I see descriptions of each dorm but nothing about gender.
Call or email res life and ask.
617-552-3060
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Depends on teh building layout and yield. Some buildings are by floor, others separate the sexes at different ends of the floors, and for dorms with suites, which have self-contained bathrooms, its random assignment on which sex lives next door. In other words, 4 girls may live in suite #1 and 4 guys live in suite #2.
When my D attended BC, they had a high yield of females that year, so they put two floors of girls in 4 story building that was typically upper class only, (The upper class students were not happy having to ‘share’!)
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For first year dorms, the dorms are coed by floor. So, in a dorm with four floors there would be two all-male floors and two all-female floors. There is also one all-female first year dorm on Upper campus (not sure if there is also one on Newton).
There are four first year dorms on Upper Campus (Claver, Loyola, Fenwick, and Xavier) that are all connected with each other, making it feel like it’s all one big dorm, even though it’s officially four different dorms. In that dorm, as you walk on the same floor from dorm to dorm, it can transition from being all-male to all-female, making it actually feel more coed.
I defer to @bluebayou for the upper class dorms - we haven’t gotten there yet! But, my understanding is that many students do choose to live in suites sophomore year and up.
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