<p>The ivies are among the schools which have the very best facilities of all US colleges. They don’t have the best dorms and this is by design. Both Princeton and Dartmouth recently added considerable new housing. The schools made a conscious decision not to compete with the schools that make their dorms marketing tools. There is a certain value in the minds for not making life to luxurious as the kids are there to study.</p>
<p>So they have beautiful, well though out new dorms with great social spaces but they don’t compete with the dorms we saw at DS’s safety schools, privates ranked between 50-100 which seem to specialize in great gyms, beautifully decorated dorm suites and sushi bars in the dining hall.</p>