<p>[The</a> 10 Colleges With The Best Dorms](<a href=“The 10 Colleges With The Best Dorms | HuffPost College”>The 10 Colleges With The Best Dorms | HuffPost College) Sorry, but photo # 2 (Loyola Maryland) looks like very generic dorm room, and there are many nicer suites with kitchens, private/semiprivate baths, you name it. What am I missing?</p>
<p>I always liked the dorms at Reed College
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<p>But my younger daughter had a great room freshman year at Western Wa University. Cathedral ceilings big windows that looked onto native landscaping- of course it was on the 4th floor, no elevators.</p>
<p>The other schools’ pictures were of the outside, so we don’t even know anything about what theirs look like.</p>
<p>Of course, it’s just how satisfied the students are with their dorms, based on surveys.</p>
<p>This is silly. I’ve been in dorm rooms at a couple of the “top 10.” Nothing special. Yes, the architecture is cool, but just like my son’s dorm rooms at Duke, cool old architecture is not necessarily conducive to modern amenities. But the students deal with it and are not worse off. But my point is that I don’t get the criteria that were used in the ranking. Maybe I missed some fine print.</p>
<p>They only really show one dorm room and it looked very average to me. Showing pics of the outside of buildings without describing square footage, windows, if it has A/C, about the lounge areas, bathrooms, study rooms, work out areas, if it includes a microfridge, about the laundry facilities, or whatever might be in the dorm is not helpful.</p>
<p>I’ve been in the Loyola and the Skidmore dorms. Both are nice, with closet space than I remember seeing elsewhere. But, other than that, they’re typical. The Skidmore room I saw was a forced triple, btw. Tight, but no need for bunking. So, I guess if size matters, that’s a plus.</p>
<p>Are they kidding??? One room looked like mine at UW-Madison, and so many '60’s era split down the middle dorms elsewhere. A dorm includes more than just the bedroom- there’s the bathroom facilities and the food service, which UW beats out any that have expensive all you can eat plans. I doubt they looked beyond their own backyard. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder- UW has many different styles that will appeal to different people as well.</p>
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<p>Remember this is Princeton Review. The “responders” have no points of comparison.</p>
<p>In the end, it is a dumb story ireported by a worthless source of “information.”</p>