Dorms

[Nice_try09]

<p>How are dorms at Stanford?</p>

[kyledavid80]

<p>What some have said:</p>

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i think i only have one major problem with stanford: its housing. i don’t mean “the draw” in which you choose/get placed into which residences. i find some of the dorms humongous – they’re not conducive to making new or close friends and very conducive to forming cliques. secondly, the diversity is kind of overboard (houses/dorms/apts/frats/types of each…). ask around and get a fair opinion from everyone before you prioritize your freshman dorm choices. i think i would’ve been happier freshman year if i’d lived in a different dorm (i.e. smaller, and i’d’ve more strongly considered the boohoo’ed frosoco or sle).

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The draw, the lottery system that determines where you live, is needlessly complicated.

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The dorms are pretty plain. They have a lot more space than I expected them to. I have been really happy with my housing, but some people who visit think the dorm rooms are small and/or plain. They aren’t new or luxurious, but I would rate the dorms as “very good.”

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[SupermanPQ]

<p>Kyledavid, can you provide a link. I’d like to hear the comments as well.</p>

[kyledavid80]

<p>These were just from the forum / what someone had said to me in a PM.</p>

<p>Search this forum for “negatives.”</p>

[Tyler09]

<p>haha i think thats pretty good when somebodys biggest complaint about stanford is that the dorm rooms are too big and theres so many different kinds of people. lol</p>

[kyledavid80]

<p>^^ well, the more frequent complaint is that Stanford’s dorms are too small and try to fit too many people into them.</p>

<p>And the “diversity” bit was saying that there are too many different kinds of dorms, not people. =p</p>

[pacers]

<p>yeah, some of the rooms are really small (like those is lagunita). My room was originally built as a single, then was converted into a double. This is one thing i’m kind of bitter about.</p>

[Sly_Si]

<p>Very few freshman get those tiny doubles, though. And all the other rooms, as far as I know, are quite good.</p>