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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD will be a freshman UVa this fall. Any recommendations on which dorm hall or housing unit would be good for a freshman.  We are starting to look at on campus housing and it is confusing and some halls are upper classmen.  We are from Nova and she is math and stem oriented and she is not likely to participate in Greek life and likes to workout at the gym and go for nature walks and hike. I tried the search feature but got a lot of info on dorms of different colleges and hard to sift through. TIA! [/quote]

You don't get to choose. There are old dorms, new dorms, Gooch/Dillard and Courtenay/Dunglison/Fitzhugh. You [i]can[/i] choose to enter into a residential college - Hereford (Sustainability/Cultural Diversity), International Residential College (International) or Brown (for the "quirky kids" - requires an application).

New dorms = very nice, farther from classes
Old dorms = older but recently renovated. There is air conditioning now. Students seem to prefer these but bloom where they're planted.
Gooch/Dillard = farther from classes and suite style. They are the least desired but they have their own dining hall and people tend to form a very close community. 
Courtenay/Dunglison/Fitzhugh = suite style in between New Dorms and Gooch/Dillard. Again the kids tend to form a close community since they have their own suits. [/quote]

Are new dorms still suite-style? That was the big difference when I attended UVA—new dorms were suites, and old dorms were halls. [/quote]

I’m a UVA grad as well, and I believe most of the new forms have been rebuilt as hall-style, with the exception of Courtenay/Dunglison/Fitzhugh.[/quote]

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