Freshman housing options?

casegirl
Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:46:33 +0000

Case does not have suite-style living for freshman. Actually I think it’s a good thing that Case does not because I am currently living in a suite, and–while I love my suitemates, am happy with my situation and have enough friends–I haven’t made any new friends this year from living in the dorm with people.

However, I absolutely loved my freshman dorm experience. There are two hall styles for freshmen: hall and quad.

Hall is the typical college hall, all the rooms are in a row, either facing each other or the walls that surround the bathroom (housing.case.edu has floor plans and photos).

The quad-style dorms have halls split into four single-sex quads, eight rooms per quad (7 doubles, 1 single). Each quad has a tiny hall-way separated on one side by a door to the common room and on ther other, a door to the bathroom. Each room is locked separately and is a separate entity. There are two common rooms per floor. It’s more like a suite than a hall is, but you do not have a separate common room for each quad.

Having lived in a quad, I am partial to quad-style (and, if you couldn’t tell, know a lot more about them). I happened to get into an amazing quad and got to know my quad and the boys quad across the hall quite well (and I am still great friends with them all). I do not think we would have been such a close-knit group on a hall. It was pretty amazing, we’d go to the dining hall together almost every day, hung out almost day. That being said, you may or may not get onto a quad of people you like, I got lucky.

As far as individual dorms go:
Cutler, Storrs, Pierce and Hitchcock are quad style
Norton, Tyler, Sherman,Raymond, Taft and Smith are hall-style
(but I don’t know at this point which of those dorms will still be freshman dorms your year).

Hope this helps.