<p>Which residence hall is the best for…</p>
<p>space
studying
meeting people
overall cleanliness 
??</p>
<p>You won’t actually have a choice in which specific residence hall you’ll live in. However you can request all freshmen, healthy living, or Metcalf.</p>
<p>As far as studying and overall cleanliness, healthy living clearly has an advantage over the rest. For meeting people, it really depends on what you’re looking for. If this experience is indicative for anything, I’ve visited a friend in healthy living this year and they were playing scrabble on a Friday night.</p>
<p>Also I would personally stay away from all freshmen dorms. Getting to know some sophomores and juniors my freshman year really added direction to my life. Plus you get a head start into the social scene, as upper classmen already have connections throughout campus while freshmen wander mindlessly on frat row every weekend.</p>
<p>I’m glad that I chose all-freshmen housing, as are most of my friends that I’ve spoken to about it. My impression is that all-freshmen housing tends to be a lot more social than mixed housing (freshmen/sophomore dorms, or in a few cases (just South?) freshmen/sophomore/junior) in that often the sophomores don’t really mix as much with the freshmen, although this isn’t always the case.<br>
I will say, however, that I’m on the XC and track teams, so I got to meet plenty of upperclassmen anyways. I think the best thing socially would be to live in an all-freshman dorm and participate in an activity(s) where you would get to meet upperclassmen.</p>
<p>As far as space, all the dorms open to freshmen are roughly the same.</p>
<p>Overall, I think all-freshmen (non healthy living) is the loudest, followed by mixed, followed by healthy living (which, at least according to my friends who live there, is notoriously quiet, but also not nearly as social).</p>
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Definately Hill Hall. The rooms there are HUGE! They have the largest rooms I’ve seen in any freshman dorm. It’s healthy living too (no alcohol)
I would kinda avoid freshmen dorms in general, because they tend to be on the rowdier side. However, Hill is pretty quiet because of the no-alcohol policy. South is also pretty quiet, though it’s not all freshmen
Any freshmen dorm would be good. Haskell might not be as great as the other dorms though because the rooms are arranged in suites; you get to know your suitemates sort of well if you choose, but it is harder to interact with people from other suites.
South. It’s the second newest dorm and thus is pretty new and clean.</p>
<p>I agree with everything ^ said except for the part about meeting people/Haskell. Haskell’s one of the most social dorms of all Freshmen dorms, particularly because RAs don’t have a huge presence due to the way the suites are arranged. Some suites tend to be isolated, though a lot of other suites hang out with other suites (i.e. 240s people hang out with 140s, who hang out with 430s and 410s, etc.).</p>
<p>Also, even if you don’t drink, I would recommend not doing healthy living. I have a friend who lives in Hill and almost never even goes to his room. He does have some friends there, but for the most part it sounds like the dorm isn’t anywhere near as social as others. If you need a place to study, there’s always the library, but my roommate/hallmates don’t have any trouble studying (or sleeping) in Houston hall, which, according to our RD, has a reputation as one of the noisiest on campus. There are still plenty of people in non-healthy living dorms that don’t drink, and it’s not like anyone is gonna force you to do it if you don’t want to.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the feedback, so I basically choose freshmanm, healthy living, ect… and I get a random dorm that fits my choice??</p>
<p>Even though the general consensus is to choose a more social dorm, I think I’m going to choose healthy living because I really want to study… and have a quiet space. I figure I’ll just go elsewhere for the social activities, but I really need a quiet place to go back to.</p>
<p>Do you know if singles are available for freshman??</p>
<p>I’ve been reading about some of the dorms. Is Tilton a good studying dorm because they have 4 live in tutors?</p>
<p>Hill is healthyliving and all freshman so would I be getting the best of both world??</p>
<p>Again you cannot choose specific dorms your freshman year.</p>
<p>Most people who request all-freshmen are not going to get it. If you request healthy living, you’re more likely to get Carmichael than Hill, and HL isn’t guaranteed.</p>
<p>I suggest just not worrying about it. You’ll likely be happy no matter where you end up.</p>
<p>Also freshmen singles are random; You cannot request it.</p>
<p>thanks for the speedy response!!</p>
<p>Don’t forget that on the dorm/roommate questionnaires, they’re also going to ask you about your preferences (i.e. are you an early bird or a night owl, do you prefer studying with tv or music in the background, etc), along with whether you want to live in all-freshman housing/healthy living or not.</p>
<p>I think there may be more people who request all-freshmen than get it, but considering there are four all-freshmen dorms, I’m pretty sure close to half of the class (if not more) lives in an all-freshmen dorm. This means that most of the people who request it get it, as there are still plenty requesting mixed.
This year, at least, Hill was either all healthy living or mostly healthy living, and there were people placed in healthy living who did not request it; this means that, odds are, everybody who requested healthy living got it, and all or nearly all of them live in Hill.</p>
<p>I do agree not to worry about it, though. However, it’s still not difficult for me to find quiet most of the time in my “noisy” dorm, so I think it’s a smaller issue than it’s made out to be.
Houston Hall also has a few live-in tutors, but I think that adds minimally to it being a study dorm. I don’t think there are really any dorms that are more studious than others except maybe healthy living.</p>
<p>And I think the only freshmen singles are in Haskell, but you get it randomly.</p>
<p>^^ Weird. My freshman year a lot of kids in my dorm requested healthy living but didn’t get it. I wonder if they expanded the program? Most of the freshmen in my dorm had also requested all freshmen, leading me to believe that most people do.</p>
<p>Are you sure most people live in all freshmen? South, Bush, Hodgdon, Miller, Carmichael, Lewis, Metcalf, and Richardson are all mixed.</p>
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<p>"I’ve been reading about some of the dorms. Is Tilton a good studying dorm because they have 4 live in tutors? "</p>
<p>During my year, Tilton was party central (even more so than Houston). So unless you can study with music blasting from obnoxious, drunk freshmen every Thursday and Saturday night, the answer to your question is no.</p>
<p>Detail: I just added up the capacities of the four all-freshmen dorms, and in total they can house 647 people. I think the class size is about 1200, so that would be roughly 1/2 of the freshman class, which is a lot less than I thought but still a lot.</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity, why Thursday nights?</p>
<p>Due to Medical reasons I require a “single”. Are singles available at Tufts?</p>
<p>^Actually, there are a surprising amount of singles for freshmen. However, they tend to be distributed by random chance. I’m sure if you have a legitimate medical excuse, ResLife will accomodate you…</p>