<p>Thanks to all for the pictures and information. I actually agree with the dorm philosophy explained by hmom5 in post #30. Some schools seem to set their students up a little too well, IMO. Friends of mine have commented that their kids’ colleges seem like country clubs! Modest is good, but shabby and ill-maintained isn’t. The Yale and Harvard dorm pics look fine, though I am not at all a fan of bunk beds and esp. bed-stacking necessitated by those very narrow rooms like I saw at Princeton. D and her summer campmates took all the mattresses out of them and laid them in the common room to sleep. Granted, this was partly for sleep-over fun, but also to avoid that cramped feeling.</p>