<p>Most of the dorm/suite questions can be answered by looking through the housing website and other searches.
Dorms are similar to the public university dorm rooms I’ve seen.</p>
<p>My experience: I lived in Pardee freshmen year and my floor never became as cohesive as other ones because half went out to pledge frats and half stayed in most weekends. I made friends with some girls on a different floor, so I had some male and female friends in my building. I spent most of my time at Parkside because I had male friends in a suite and the female suite across the hall was cool so we would hang out and sometimes go out to parties together. My friends who lived in New North had a good social life but it seemed they went out more. My friends in Birnkrant had a lot of fun spending time together on the floor and going out as well. Everyone I know who has lived in Birnkrant has really liked it.</p>
<p>On the other hand, there were suites in Parkside who were either out all the time or in and didn’t want to hang out when we asked them. To each his or her own. Main point is that the experience will be whatever you make of it. If you’re worried about suites being less social, then just put in more effort to meet people and you’ll find people looking for the same thing.</p>