Dorms, where does everyone want to be!?

seiclan
Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:54:42 +0000

The dorms that are most like “hotels” are the newer ones (Academic Village -which is comprised of Hercules and Nike, and the Towers apartments). There are no communal bathroom-type dorms at UCF. As a freshman, you can choose either a double in a suite (two double rooms that share a private bathroom…4 kids/per bathroom) in either Libra, Apollo (oldest but renovated) or Hercules/Nike, or a single bedroom in Lake Claire (Has a kitchen and common area/living room plus 4 small bedrooms with twin XL beds share two bathrooms - two kids to a bathroom) OR the newest apartment style dorm, The Towers. Most of the rooms for freshman in the Towers are 4 bedrooms with two bathrooms - two kids per bathroom) The single bedrooms in the Towers have FULL size beds (as opposed to twin XL that is everywhere else on campus). The Towers also has a limited number of 4 bed/4 bath -everyone gets a private bathroom apartments but usually they are for upperclassmen. Of the two apartment style dorms for Freshman (nike and hercules have apartments for upperclassmen), I have been told that Towers is more social than Lake Claire since each floor has a common hallway, laundry room and elevators. In Lake Claire you access each apartment from the outside and there are no elevators (so not as many opportunities to “run into” new people. On the housing website there are photos of each and every type of room and dorm at UCF. We saw ALL the dorms when we visited last June and the pictures are very accurate.