That’s very unfortunate as even first-year students are allowed to pick and choose from many dorms to enter…most of which are on the nice side IME. Well…unless the incoming student concerned is expecting a 4-5 star posh hotel treatment.
While there is one official “first-year” dorm(Dascomb when I attended), not all first-years opted to live there.
Instead, they are spread around many other dorms/houses with older classes which IMO helped acclimate incoming first-year students into the academic/social spirit of things sooner and greatly tamped down some of the excesses which seem to be a common thing at other colleges/universities where most first-year students stay in “freshman dorms”.
Some of those first-year dorms I visited were close to the “Lord of the Flies” in terms of resident behavior/antics than what existed at Oberlin when I attended.