No "All-Freshman Dorms"

<p>I lived in a all-freshman dorm with two upperclassmen RA’s for 120 freshman last year and I really enjoyed it. I think because everyone is a freshman and (especially at smaller private schoools,) most people don’t know anyone else, everyone is a bit more social and open to making friends. I knew some people who were assigned to sophomore housing as freshman and everyone on their floors already had their ‘group’ of friends and weren’t really interested in meeting new people and participating in the residential activities, so the freshman ended up hanging out in the freshman dorms a lot. </p>

<p>At the same time, I think the way some universities like Rice, Yale and Caltech do housing is really cool - you’re assigned to a House/Residential College where there are students from all years and you stick with the same group of people all four years. Becaues the house is a social unit and you’re going to stick with the same people for more than one year, I think it ends up fostering more social interaction between people from different years, especially at universities with distinct house cultures. I don’t know if Wheaton is like this, but I thought I’d just mention it</p>