<p>For those of you who have toured several colleges, how big are Yale’s dorms compared to the dorms at other places like Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, etc.?</p>
<p>Never been inside the dorms but I think Yale’s dorms are much bigger than the typical college dorms. However, I toured the campus and let me tell you this my friend, it is amazing! I been inside the residential halls and wow, so classical and beautiful!!! Since you’re from England, you will enjoy it as Yale was modeled after Oxford. One of the their dinning halls look just like the one in Harry Potter. lol. Darn I hope I was accepted. By the way, I have a few questions regarding Oxford and Cambridge…I was just wondering if Ox and Cam accept transfer applicant. If so, do they require SATs? I’m not quite sure how the British system works. I appreciate your answer</p>
<p>Dorm sizes at Yale are pretty irregular: they vary from college to college and even within the same building sometimes. Some doubles are huge and some people get singles that look like doubles. There’s also doubles that look like singles, but those are usually accompanied by larger-than-normal common rooms. Common rooms are cool. Pretty much all the residential colleges now are recently renovated and the few that aren’t will be in the next couple of years (Silliman being next with a $100 million investment).</p>
<p>Off-campus housing (e.g. Fraternity house/ Yale apartments) is optional for upperclassmen. It’s comparably priced and usually very close to campus.</p>
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<p>Do you happen to know which residential colleges have these bigger dorms? I know matriculating students can’t choose their residential colleges, so I’m asking out of curiosity.</p>
<p>Bieu203:
No Oxford and Cambridge don’t accept transfers. In fact the whole idea of transfers between universities in the UK is virtually unknown. I expect the reason is that almost all UK university courses are specialised from the beginning (in US parlance you just study a major) so it would be difficult to go to a new university and pick things up in the middle of the course. So if a UK student decides he’s in the wrong place, he’d leave one university and apply to another one for the next year as a new undergraduate where he’d probably start from scratch.</p>
<p>Options for studying in Oxford or Cambridge (or most other UK universities) are: go through the whole undergraduate application process; get into some visiting student scheme; become a Rhodes Scholar.</p>