<p>DD was told by an upperclassmen that her room is quite large…she hopes a bookshelf will fit. Fingers crossed.</p>
<p>My daughter was in TD (E entrance). I don’t think the rooms are big enough to be unbunked (at least hers). </p>
<p>@donnaleighg Thanks for the response, it didn’t look like it from the floor plans.</p>
<p>Can anyone tell me about the rooms in Bingham? My son will be sharing a suite with six others. Anyone out there who can tell about beds (bunk/flat) or bath or common room? Thanks.</p>
<p>For new parents: On some college’s websites, your student can gain access to dorm room floor plans by entering their NetID and password. Have your son or daughter go to their college’s website and search for “Housing” – it’s usually under the “resources” tab. For example, if your son or daughter is in Vanderbilt, go to Saybrook: <a href=“Central Authentication Service | Yale University”>Central Authentication Service | Yale University; and look for</p>
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<p>When you click “here” that brings up the password protected website, which will give your son or daughter access to Vanderbilt’s floor plans, as well as floor plans for all of Saybrook College.</p>
<p>Every college does not have this feature, but if it’s available it’s worth checking out.</p>
<p>At Trumbull, go to: <a href=“http://trumbull.yalecollege.yale.edu/housing/”>http://trumbull.yalecollege.yale.edu/housing/</a></p>
<p>I don’t know if the Trumbull link shows Bingham floor plans or not as I can’t login. However, we found that every suite is different, so it’s not possible to give general information about floor plans, beds, common rooms etc. For example in one of my son’s suites, there was one double and three singles --and every one was a different size and configuration. My other son’s had a hallway with rooms on either side, but this one didn’t have that. So, sometimes you just have to wait until you get there to have exact dimensions on specific suites and rooms.</p>
<p>Password protected? Gosh. When most of the parents are doing the buying/figuring out & schlepping of dorm items. DD is on campus doing a summer program. Not knowing the dimensions is frustrating. </p>
<p>When DS was in college, the password issue was one of our headaches. We do not want to access his accounts (e.g., email) in order to be not intrusive. But when we were doing a lot of things for him (e.g., FA application), it often requires, for example, the access of his email account (e.g., when SAR is reported back to us.) It often takes a while before he has the time to access his account and informs us of what we need to know for the next step. It was true that we really helicoptered a little too much. But the fact is he is not motivated at all in knowing many things (e.g., our family’s financial affair needed for CSS Profile) at his age.</p>
<p>DS’s single room was tiny. Not much can be fit into his bedroom. In the end, I think his suitemates allowed him to move one of his furniture to the common room. He essentially lived with one less piece of furniture: Basically he just used the bed and the desk. All other stuff is either in his luggage under bed or hang on the wall. (We left too many luggage to him in his first year, which gave him some trouble.) There is almost NO space for anything else. (Their common room happens to be quite spacious though - except that they had flies infection problem in their common room after a month or so and they stopped going to the common room.)</p>
<p>It’s understandably frustrating, but that’s the way colleges do things these days. Parents are not given access, as student’s are supposed to be responsible and look through websites for all college related information. BTW: Make sure your student adds you as an authorized bill-payer on the term-bill, otherwise your DD will be sent the bill and not you. </p>
<p>@elmimino,
D was in Bingham. The double bedroom sizes are quite variable. Some large. Some small where the beds need bunking and the desks were brought out into the common room. The bathrooms are outside of the suites which means that the yale janitorial service cleans them. (If the bathrooms are inside of the suites, then the students are required to clean them, I believe). The small doubles where the beds need to be bunked are still bigger than in LDub, though. Also, there are laundry facilities in Bingham, I believe. </p>
<p>@newhavenCTmom,
Best to wait until you actually see the room before you buy things because you don’t know the actual dimensions or what is present in the room until you get there.</p>
<p>What’s interesting is because she was accepted to a LAC in MA. I assumed that’s where she would end up as it was her first choice. Well, I hopped on the students schools website & the dorm info was there, with the dimensions. No password needed for that info. </p>
<p>That varies with each school, I’ve seen dimensions on many of the college sites. My daughter was Durfee/Morse but every room in her suite was different sizes, some had shelves, some didn’t (they moved them around to share) some had rectangle shapes, some square. Unless they showed a blue print, it would be hard. If they said it came with dresser, less closet space, one had built-ins but a huge closet. She never needed more than a lamp and under bed storage for her room as far as furniture. </p>
<p>They really don’t need that much stuff. And they don’t really need all of it immediately.</p>
<p>Agree with Hunt. Much of what was purchased for our son’s common room happened during Parents Weekend–by then everything had been sorted out and they figured out what things they still needed. There is no rush to figure this all out over the summer. For both of my sons, the parents all worked together during move-in week to determine what was needed, and as other needs surfaced later, things got taken care of. Plus, you never know what you may or may not need in the following years–you might end up with unnecessary items to get rid of if you went overboard freshman year.</p>
<p>Thank you mom and dads! I was panicking to get what he needs, but my son got an email from his student counselor and he said his suite is NICE! That he got the penthouse suite. Whatever that meant, it feels good:)</p>
<p>@Hunt & @Clarimom </p>
<p>To be honest, I have no interest in waiting until Parents Weekend. These past four years have been grueling and I want her to be on campus and all set. I’ve carried this entire load for more years than I care to count and I want to send her off to her new life…with no extra needed stuff when October rolls around. One and done. I picked up a coffee table at IKEA today in the AS IS department. A few blemishes but perfect for college freshman who will be doing God knows what to it. We will also provide the futon. Then we’re done as far as the common area. </p>
<p>@NewHavenCTmom,
I hear you. We’re coming from FL and I’m not planning to go to parents weekend. I’ll rather fly my son the week after to visit us during Octtober break. We’ll do as much as we can on Friday and Sarurday. Hopefully all the other parents will join us on that idea. In my son suite 5 boys are coming from out of state and one from Greece, so I’m sure they are all doing shopping once they get there. </p>
<p>Well, I wasn’t really advocating that anyone wait until Parents Weekend–of course most people work to get everything set on move-in weekend. And certainly many items could be purchased ahead of time, such as futons, lamps, bedding, etc–especially for those who live nearby. But unless yours is a college that publishes room dimensions, you’re just going to have to wait until you get there to determine some things. And unless your kids are great at communicating with their suitemates, some purchasing decisions won’t happen until move-in weekend (such as who is buying rug, lamps, chairs, etc.)–and you certainly won’t want to end up with duplicates. We live halfway across the country, and so were limited as to what we could actually bring to move-in weekend. And since move-in weekend got so very hectic, we picked up a few additional items on Parents Weekend. Worked for us. We never missed a Parents Weekend in eight years–but both our sons were heavily involved in performing groups and so it was a great opportunity to hear them. I feel a bit envious of those of you just beginning the journey–no more Yale trips for us anymore, and we will miss them.</p>
<p>@Clarimom </p>
<p>You should start a group of parents of Yale graduates…lol get together during parents weekend and partake in the festivities! LOLOL </p>
<p>Another question…does Farnam have an elevator? My mom has horrible knees and is two months away from bilateral knee replacement. My stepdad broke 2 vertebrae when their Black Russian Terrier knocked him on his butt a month ago. It may not be possible for either of them to make it up all those flights of stairs.</p>
<p>Farnam does not have an elevator. If somebody can’t go up and down stairs, it would probably be best not to bring them on move-in day. There may be places you can “park” an elderly relative (like maybe in the residential college common room), but this is not ideal. I would also suggest not bringing little kids or pets on move-in day if you can help it. Bring the relatives on Parents Weekend, or some other time when things aren’t so hectic, and people aren’t going up and down stairs with heavy stuff.</p>