<p>babbobubba, I assume this means he’s in Morse or Stiles? My D was in Stiles, and was a bit disappointed when she first found out, but once she got to Yale she never even thought of switching. The freshman dorms for both M&S are excellent, BTW. If your son is really unhappy, he can switch for his sophomore year, but I doubt that will happen. Almost everyone winds up loving their residential college, no matter what the architecture is!</p>
<p>HI
Our student got Branford and will be in Vandebilt for frosh year–</p>
<p>Trying to figure out numbering system for rooms.</p>
<p>babbobubba, from all we have read, res college assignments are not appealable.</p>
<p>My S got Jonathan Edwards and is very happy. There is very helpful information about freshman housing on the JE webpage. It explains the room numbering system and includes a great description of the size, contents, and layout of the suites.</p>
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As I’ve said before, each freshman is randomly assigned to the best residential college at Yale. Your son will realize this with an hour or so of arriving on campus (or perhaps even before, thanks to Facebook), and will sneer at all the other colleges.</p>
<p>Everyone should be aware that one of the things that has differentiated the RC’s in the past–the amount of money each had for programming–has gone away this year. Some colleges, JE in particular, had endowments which funded comparatively richer programming for their residents only. As of this year that funding has now been pooled and is being equally divided among all RC’s.</p>
<p>^^Glad to hear that.</p>
<p>IvyBoundParent: My DD was on LHW. Half the building was Saybrook and the other half Pierson. DD said Pierson rooms were bigger than Saybrook. She stayed in the smallest double (10’x7’) and in the end it worked well. Her roommate was as neat as her and both had only the necessary stuff in the room. All four desks were placed in the common room, the fireplace mantel was used as bookshelf and the very large window seat gave them an extra flat surface as well as a nice sleeping area for overnight guest. There was an extra chest with 3 drawers in the common room, some suites have a bookshelf instead. There was barely no space for any other furniture. The closets are very small about 4’x2’ per bedroom. Both bedrooms and common room have wood floor and the windows have a simple dark curtain. There are some floor plan layouts available on facebook (check Pierson College 2014 or Saybrook College 2014).</p>
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To Clas84 - My S will be a soph in JE and we also live in NoVA…feel free to PM me if you’d like more info. He loves it, btw. His freshman room in Farnam was teeny (I like to think of it as cozy 
) but it was a single and most of the “living” goes on in the common room. BTW - Does your username refer to Yale class of 84?</p>
<p>Any info for Branford…most especially Vanderbilt.
Looks like our student is ?? through B entryway, third floor…though we aren’t clear on that.
Are rooms lableled A and B - meaning it’s a quad?</p>
<p>Since Commons will no longer serve dinner, will frosh dining at their res col?</p>
<p>Read at the YDN that many students think the “extended” hours at the dining halls (ony 30 minutes?) will still not be enough and closing Commons for dinner is a bad idea. Thoughts from your upperclassmen?? Are some dining halls much more crowded?</p>
<p>fogfog, it will probably be quite convenient for your S to eat dinner at Branford, since it’s right by the Old Campus. I do think the closing of Commons for dinner might make all the RC dining halls a bit more crowded.</p>
<p>My son will be a junior in JE this year, but he will be living in McClellan on the Old Campus, which has some JE upperclass housing.</p>
<p>As for rooms in Vanderbilt, check this out:</p>
<p>[Legendary</a> Vanderbilt Suite is the sweetest of on-campus abodes | Yale Daily News](<a href=“http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2005/feb/04/legendary-vanderbilt-suite-is-the-sweetest-of-on/]Legendary”>http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2005/feb/04/legendary-vanderbilt-suite-is-the-sweetest-of-on/)</p>
<p>Two time Bingham mom here…PM me if you have questions about that residence.</p>
<p>Hi Yale Parents! I’m an incoming freshman Morsel, so I’ll be living in Durfee next year. I have a single within my suite. I was wondering if any of you could give me some details about Durfee (specifically the size/storage space in singles). I figured parents of current Yalies would be a good source of information!! Also, does Morse College have more suites now post-renovation?</p>
<p>Hi,
My daughter’s a morsel too and lived in a single in Durfee. She had a somewhat small room but adequate. It was like a rectangle, bed on left, dresser/desk on right and next to the door was pretty big closet. She also had 3 shelves and one on her desk. The window was small but by her desk which was nice. (Fit a box fan nicely.) Her closet fit all her hanging clothes, and the 3 dresser drawers fit her shirts, etc. She’s not a clothes hound but if you are neat, it’s not so bad.
Her suite had one more single and the rest were doubles. My only complaint (and my knees) was that it was on the 4th floor…pack lightly. : )
Durfee is beautiful, the nicest I felt for freshman.</p>
<p>Here’s photos from the new Morse:
<a href=“Yale College”>Yale College;
<p>A PS. Daughter said she didn’t think anything was larger, but singles were less in the new Morse. She doesn’t have one this year.The doubles in Durfee were large, had fireplaces, very nice, haven’t seen the Morse ones but they were a nice size she told me when she went for a tour.</p>
<p>My son is also in Morse as an incoming freshman and it appears they are the nicest freshman dorms on campus. He also has a single in a suite that has 3 other singles and one double and they have their own bathroom. If you haven’t already, I would recommend you join the Morse College 2015 Facebook group. Many of the incoming students have already found and have posted pictures from the previous incoming classes of the rooms and suites. I envy the both of you as you are in for an awesome four years and the people my son has already met through FB seem very friendly and sociable.</p>
<p>My son was a morsel and lived in a single (on the highest floor!) in Durfee.</p>
<p>Some graduate students complained to him that the UG students are “spoiled” by the school. They said they worry about whether there is enough drinking water (or something like that) and the morsels can have a “beach.” He needs to explain to them: That beach is a tiny one, not one like you would find in Disney World. </p>
<p>Nevertheless, Yale indeed takes care of their UG very well. My son was sad when he needed to leave the residential college after 4 years. (Actually, for a year after graduation, he still rented an apartment from which he could still see the Morse tower. But it was not the same as living in the residential college. However, he still joined some UG’s activities in the evening. He refused to “cut the cord” after 4 years.)</p>
<p>Reading this thread jolt my fond memory.</p>
<p>I have a question and hope someone can answer it or provide feedback. My son will be attending Yale this fall and we are trying to determine needs for the dorm. There are many sites for ideas for the room but not anything for dorms that have a common room. My son seems to think he will receive an e-mail from Yale about suggestions for the common room soon. For parents with kids attending now, do you remember getting such an e-mail? If not, do you know where I can find a list as my guess is these rooms are completely unfurnished. He is in Durfee if that matters and if anyone knows of the room dimensions that would be helpful for picking out furniture and area rugs.</p>
<p>My thought is if we can get a list started now, he can communicate with all his suite mates and see who might have some of these items. Then, they can each take ownership of the remaining items so they don’t have one big empty room to start with. I would like to minimize or possibly avoid trips to IKEA or BB&B once we arrive and purchase ahead of time what we agree to provide.</p>
<p>I appreciate in advance any and all suggestions as we are T-minus seven weeks and counting.</p>
<p>A reminder I make every year about furnishing common rooms is to be very sensitive about finances. Not everyone has money to chip in for a sofa, rug, fridge, etc. The conversations about who buys or brings what need to be handled with care.</p>
<p>The common rooms are unfurnished. At least one family per suite should have a car during move-in and Ikea is close. Back in my day, there were also lots of upperclassmen selling used furniture on Old Campus.</p>
<p>Don’t I know that as I am one of those. That’s why I want to try and figure out this ahead of time so I can shop for sales /bargains. Also, we have a 12 hour drive so I would like to limit large items. I do have a refrigerator I can furnish from my daughter’s dorm as she is moving into a co-op and won’t need it but I’m thinking they might be better off chipping in $15/piece for the rental ($90). Thoughts?</p>