What schools have the absolute worst dorms?

tokyorevelation9
Sat, 17 May 2008 04:46:38 +0000

Some schools are really unpredictable in the quality of their residential facilities. Princeton is a perfect example of this. Its really hard to tell what you’re going to get as a new student because students are randomly assigned to one of six residential colleges.

The dorms in the core campus colleges (Rockefeller and Mathey) and in Whitman College are fantastic. However, if you happen to be assigned to Wilson College, like I was, then there is a good chance that you will be living in extremely outdated structures built in the 1960s that have not been maintained particularly well and do not have good heating/cooling. Luckily, with the razing of the Butler College Quad, the chance this will happen to incoming students is drastically reduced.

I can only hope that Wilson College Quad is the wrecking ball’s next target, these dorms really don’t reflect well considering how much we pay for room and board.

On another note, I visited Northwestern (used to live nearby, have a friend who goes there), and Columbia, and all I can say is no wonder so many students live off campus. At NW, I was told that it is more expensive to live in university housing than off-campus, and the dormitories are extremely spartan and claustrophobic. The latter is true for Columbia as well.