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<li>Best
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<li>Worst</li>
</ol>
<p>in terms of space, comfort, bathrooms, etc.</p>
<p>well…since there are 8 ivies, i’d love to know who’s gonna be number 9 and 10</p>
<p>lol
i was prob thinking abt on a scale of 1-10
nvm mind that
i fixed it</p>
<p>“i’d love to know who’s gonna be number 9 and 10”</p>
<p>Harvard actually takes up the top 3 spots cuz it thinks its so special ;)</p>
<p>why is Ivy all caps?</p>
<p>seriously it’s not necessary.</p>
<p>Either people think it’s an abbreviation or they express their excitement about it in capital letters, I’m not sure which.</p>
<p>Not many people have lived in multiple Ivy dorms to really know.</p>
<p>I can say this, Lanman-Wright at Yale is far worse than any housing at Brown, although I also saw some pretty nice housing at Yale as well.</p>
<p>It’s either one of those two, or it’s “omg, it’s the IVY LEAGUE” type reason. I normally let this kind of thing go but I saw another thread yesterday that had “ivy” in all caps as well. Ugh.</p>
<p>i see it too. but i don’t believe its an abbreviation… i’ve seen “upenn” and “duke” in caps on threads. makes NO sense to me…</p>
<p>many schools, including ivys, have a range of residence halls – you could end up in a palace or a prison cell.</p>
<p>At Cornell, there are some newer buildings on North Campus for freshmen and some newer buildings on West Campus for upperclass students. There are also lots of older buildings. But, all the on-campus housing is pretty comfortable.</p>
<ol>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Harvard </li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Brown</li>
</ol>
<p>I went to the Summer@Brown, and I took a tour of Columbia, and let me tell you, the dorms are absolutely terrible at both universities.</p>
<p>BalletGirl has a good list, although I would say the dorms at Penn are better than Cornell.</p>
<p>“I would say the dorms at Penn are better than Cornell”</p>
<p>why do you say so?</p>
<p>Because Penn’s Quad dorms are air-conditioned 
I think.</p>
<p>I’ve stayed at a fair share of colleges, and from what I saw (Brown, JHU, Roger Williams, U of New Haven, Sienna, Georgetown, FIT, Harvard), Brown was nothing special. This is one list where I would fine with seeing Brown towards the bottom.</p>
<p>But of course, I haven’t seen all the other Ivies, so I could be totally wrong in saying that.</p>
<p>My American History teacher got his B.A. at Harvard and he said (as many of you already have) that there was, indeed, a wide range. Some of his friends got palaces, while he claims he got an absolute dump (one of those riot-proof blocks of cement built in the 70s).</p>
<p>He also claims that the best housing assignments were given to legacies and dignitaries’ kids, while he (lower-class), got stuck with the leftovers, but I don’t believe that :p</p>
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<p>Might as well be true for some people :-</p>
<p>Penn might win points for diversity in dorms (probably won’t be winning any for quality though). They have traditional gothic dorms (the quad), apartment-style high-rises where you get your own bathroom and kitchen (the High-Rises), residential colleges replete with their own dining halls (Kings Court-English and Hill), and atrocities to humankind (Gregory)</p>
<p>I really have no idea. I think Yale’s is very nice, but I don’t think people know enough to give a subjective ranking of ALL the Ivy League schools undergraduate dorms.</p>