Do most colleges have coed bathrooms?

[Anonymous]

OP again - Haverford is one of the college that leans towards all-gender bathrooms. Student groups apparently vote each year about whether they'll share the bathrooms, and they usually vote yes. My DD is not as conservative as I am, so she may not mind, but I really don't want to send her to an environment where this is normal.
https://www.haverford.edu/residential-life/first-year-housing/living-haverford

[Anonymous]

All schools I have toured with my kids and the one my DD landed at gave a lot of options for kids' living situations (coed, single-sex, dorms with bathrooms in the hall, suite-style where you share a bathroom with only same-sex suite-mates, etc). All the kids have to do is ask to be in the option that makes them more comfortable. It's not that complicated or anything to freak out about.

[Anonymous]

I had a coed bathroom my sophomore year and honestly it was no big deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter was in a coed dorm that had a coed 1st floor, all girl 2nd floor, and all boy 3rd floor. I was thrilled that she was on the 2nd floor. Then I found out that the RA on her floor was male. Rediculous!!

Co-Ed floors. Did they use the same bathrooms?

[Anonymous]

My DS starts this fall. None of the Schools had co-ed bathrooms. The school he ended up choosing has only in room/suite bathrooms.

[Anonymous]

We had a co-ed floor in name only. Off the stairs to the right were the boys, off to the left were the girls. Same "floor" but you couldn't really walk freely between the two.

Our bathrooms were "co-ed" but the mens was far away from the womens rooms and the womens far away from the mens rooms. The shower was arranged with 'stalls' like a bathroom so basically there could have been someone of the opposite sex next door but you wouldn't really know.

[Anonymous]

I lived in a house with 8 others in grad school and all the bathrooms were coed. ?

Seriously, I don’t think coed is the norm, but it’s normal AT CERTAIN SCHOOLS and therefor not a big deal. If there were problems, they wouldn’t have them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We've toured five very different colleges, from a huge state school to a tiny LAC, and all had dorms that were coed--but men and women were on separate floors, or on the same floors but in separate halls or wings. The whole point was so that the bathrooms were not shared. I'm sure that shared bathrooms were probably mentioned too but it depends on the dorm. Have your kid ask for more details and ask if she can request a dorm with single sex bathrooms. I'm sure this would be an issue for my DD as well. But after what we heard on visits, I can't believe that every single college dorm has every single bathroom set up for coed showers, to the point that a religious college is the only option.

I would hope that in the me too era, th8s stupid liberal experiment will change and universities will .go back to single sex, key accessible floors and bathrooms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP again - Haverford is one of the college that leans towards all-gender bathrooms. Student groups apparently vote each year about whether they'll share the bathrooms, and they usually vote yes. My DD is not as conservative as I am, so she may not mind, but I really don't want to send her to an environment where this is normal.
https://www.haverford.edu/residential-life/first-year-housing/living-haverford

Someth8ng is very wrong with the students and education at that school if female students are voting to share bathrooms with male college students. How do they handle the smell and the pee everywhere? The education system has failed these young women.

[Anonymous]

I have two in college now in Virginia universities - sharing a bathroom has never come up. Neither of my children, one male, one female, would be cool with it.

[Anonymous]

No, most colleges don't.

[Anonymous]

One more reason the fertility rate is in free fall .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One more reason the fertility rate is in free fall .

How does this even make sense to YOU let alone other people?

[Anonymous]

I had a co-ed bathroom in one college dorm and hated it. Soon DD will start in a school with co-ed bathrooms and says she doesn't mind.

But at the end of the day, I don't really see any advantage to co-ed bathrooms. Tell me, please, why anyone would consider this a good idea?!

[Anonymous]

We had single sex floors or coed floors split down the middle (usually by some kind of lobby). Single-sex restrooms.

There were definitely exceptions: special interest dorms on one end of the spectrum (entirely coed) and single-sex dorms on the other.

I know we also had the two-suites sharing a bath in the middle model (I lived in one). I don't recall any mixed-gender suites, but I suppose they wouldn't deny that these days.