<p>We like the single bedrooms available to all students at UT Dallas. Someone mentioned similar housing at U. Tennessee. Does anyone know of nice apartment style housing available with single bedrooms for on campus living? In particular, I am looking for colleges or universities where you can get Amtrak or a short flight back to any of the Washington area airports (BWI, etc.). Thanks so much.</p>
<p>I have a freshman living in the UT Dallas residence hall. The room set-up works perfectly. She likes having roommates and she likes her single bedroom - the best of both worlds. (Surprising how much stuff fits into the single bedroom :)) </p>
<p>I think maybe that the honor dorms at UA (Alabama) might have a similar set-up. I don’t know anything about travel arrangements though.</p>
<p>A lot of a campuses have suite style living. That means that each student has a private room and shares a common area and bathroom with several people. </p>
<p>I think it’s great because when I was upset I could go into my room and shut the door. It gave me privacy when I wanted it. Most of the time I left it open and was friendly with my roommates.</p>
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<p>U. Alabama looks great except that it is far from our home. I am wondering if there is a college similar to UT Dallas on the East Coast. The freshman dorms I have seen so far (GW, U. Maryland College Park, George Mason) are shared rooms in older dorms.</p>
<p>Someone mentioned similar housing at U. Tennessee.</p>
<p>I think I did…but it was UTenn-Chattanooga. I don’t know what UTenn has.</p>
<p>U. Alabama looks great except that it is far from our home. I am wondering if there is a college similar to UT Dallas on the East Coast. The freshman dorms I have seen so far (GW, U. Maryland College Park, George Mason) are shared rooms in older dorms.</p>
<p>What are your distance limits? You live in Maryland, right? Is UTenn-Chattanooga too far? </p>
<p>*I think maybe that the honor dorms at UA (Alabama) might have a similar set-up. I don’t know anything about travel arrangements though. *</p>
<p>UA has non-honors with the same private room set up. Amtrak is nearby. Also round-trip shuttles to B’ham airport.</p>
<p>The OP’s son has a medical condition so he should be able to petition for sophmore or above housing as a freshman.</p>
<p>Check out the dorms at Stevenson University - right in your own backyard.</p>
<p>What is your budget? Are private schools ok?</p>
<p>Why not just go to the University of Maryland at College Park and live in the University View apartment building? It is not, technically, on campus, but it is closer to the academic buildings than many of the dorms are, and only UMCP students are allowed to live there. A thousand of them do.</p>
<p>UMCP does not require students to live on campus, not even as freshmen. Although it would be unusual for a freshman to live in the View, it is not unheard of. It’s not a great place to meet people (a freshman would definitely have to seek out other venues for making friends), but it’s a nice, very modern building (with a smaller, similar building currently under construction right in front of it). If you’ve been to the UMCP campus in the past five years or so, you know where this place is (although you may not have realized what it was). It’s so tall that it’s an absolute eyesore, and the new building going up in front of it is just as garishly conspicuous. But pretty is not what the View is about. </p>
<p>My son lived in the View as a junior and senior at UMCP. It is not cheap, but it is well equipped and convenient, and all the rooms are singles (some with their own bathrooms, some sharing a bathroom with one other person). Two or four people share a common area, consisting of a small living room, a kitchen, and a washer/dryer. Each resident has his/her own lease, and it is not necessary for people to form a group and rent an apartment together; the management will place individual applicants in empty spots in apartments.</p>
<p>[UNIVERSITY</a> VIEW - At College Park, Maryland](<a href=“http://www.universityview.net/]UNIVERSITY”>http://www.universityview.net/)</p>
<p>Thanks for the info on UM College Park. When I clicked on the floors, I didn’t see any singles. Do you think they are taken or maybe there aren’t any? Did you compare the View to the other apartment options at UM that I have heard of – Commons and something else? What do you think? How much is the view? Thanks for all info. I have an incoming freshman who would live in the honors housing the first year at least, but it is great to know about the options. Frankly this “living off campus” has always been a turnoff to me about Maryland, but maybe it’s not so bad.</p>
<p>All the bedrooms in the View are singles. They are located in two-person or four-person suites. If you are looking for apartments that would be occupied by one person only, you don’t want the View. </p>
<p>I don’t know about prices, but they are on the high side. Two years ago, my son paid about $800 a month, including utilities, and I suspect it has gone up since then. The rent on the higher floors is higher than that on the lower floors for some reason. (On the other hand, my daughter pays less for off-campus housing at a private university, but this is more than offset by the much higher tuition.)</p>
<p>I don’t know about the Commons and other options. Maybe you should start a thread in the University of Maryland forum. When my son decided to live in the View, he didn’t compare it with other places to live; he chose to live there because a room opened up in an apartment occupied by friends, and they wanted to pull him in as their fourth apartment-mate, which both he and I thought was a good idea.</p>
<p>I think we need more parameters from the OP…</p>
<p>I think school size is an issue …not too big is preferred</p>
<p>Quality of major …Actuarial Science</p>
<p>Cost…not sure of budget, but I recall concern about cost on other threads</p>
<p>Location…not too far from Maryland and with manageable transportation back to Maryland.</p>
<p>Hopefully the OP can weigh in, add info, and correct any of my mistakes.</p>
<p>BTW, U Tennessee Knoxville has awful dorms; very 1970’s. UT Chattanooga has the apartment style suites. When my younger D was in 4th grade and her DI team made it to globals (which are held every year in Knoxville) we stayed in Morrill Hall (which is where the Honors housing is.) On Day 2 she looked at me and said “Mom, when I go to college, do I HAVE to live in a dorm?” When D1 went to visit on Honors Day and we looked at the dorms, she did say they weren’t as BAD as she expected, but since she’s already seen the UA dorms twice, they really paled in comparison.</p>
<p>Doesn’t College of Charleston have all suite dorms?</p>
<p>My daughter attends the University of Central Florida in Orlando and has lived in an on campus apartment style dorm since the Fall of her Freshman year. She is a sophomore and plans to stay in her same dorm room next year. There are 4 of these dorms at UCF, though one of them is devoted entirely to Honors students. Most of the apartments are 4 bedroom/2 bathroom (you have your own single room and share a bathroom with one other person) but there are 3 4 bedroom/4 bathrooms apartments on each floor. My daughter has had her own bedroom and bath and loves it. Here is a link to the school’s housing website with the floorplans. The apartments are all mixed (freshman/sophomore/junior/senior) but most of the 4/2’s are all freshman (upperclassmen tend to choose to get their own bath). </p>
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<p>And here is the link to the school website:</p>
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