Anonymous
Post 11/29/2024 16:31     Subject: Worst facilities and housing
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Vanderbilt is anyone’s guess. You could get a brand new airy loft with 14-ft ceilings and gigantic windows, with laundry one floor down and TikTok worthy common areas

Or you could get a Soviet 8x9 foot box with black mold, no natural light and ceilings that close in on you. And laundry is across the quad (at the TikTok building)

All for the same price! In a “random” lottery process


Random my nut sack. You think Paltrow's kid or Cuban's kid got placed in the Soviet building?


Do kids of celebrities have a body guard with them at school? Maybe they need to live somewhere the body guard has a room like an apartment.

They are not children of heads of state! And over the age of 18
Anonymous
Post 11/29/2024 15:26     Subject: Worst facilities and housing
Anonymous wrote:William and Mary is opening several brand new dorms for next fall. Freshman will be occupying about half of them, and the two worst dorms are being demolished. There are still some older complexes that will be used for freshmen, but all are decent.


Not what the OP asked, though
Anonymous
Post 11/29/2024 15:25     Subject: Worst facilities and housing
Anonymous wrote:We found northeastern to be kinda cruddy when we visited. Not impressive at all


THis is a thread about the T25. Maybe start a different thread?
Anonymous
Post 11/29/2024 15:02     Subject: Worst facilities and housing
We found northeastern to be kinda cruddy when we visited. Not impressive at all
Anonymous
Post 11/29/2024 14:11     Subject: Re:Worst facilities and housing
Anonymous wrote:How can a student function well when they have to share a small room (e.g. bunk beds or 2 small beds) with another kid?

How common is this or does this happen to only a small subset of students?


This is what almost all college students do, and most of them survive unscathed. Wondering where you got the impression that college students generally have large solo dorm rooms with queen-size beds.
Anonymous
Post 11/29/2024 14:06     Subject: Re:Worst facilities and housing
How can a student function well when they have to share a small room (e.g. bunk beds or 2 small beds) with another kid?

How common is this or does this happen to only a small subset of students?
Anonymous
Post 11/28/2024 20:45     Subject: Worst facilities and housing
William and Mary is opening several brand new dorms for next fall. Freshman will be occupying about half of them, and the two worst dorms are being demolished. There are still some older complexes that will be used for freshmen, but all are decent.
Anonymous
Post 11/28/2024 20:41     Subject: Re:Worst facilities and housing
Anonymous wrote:Georgetown.


My kid was in what's known as the worst freshman dorm at Georgetown. Honestly, it was fine. Yes it was a small room in an older building utterly devoid of any charm, and the furniture was dated. But it was very clean, and unlike a lot of reports at other places, there was no mold or any issues. Kid did say he heard a rumor that other kids saw a rat inside, but he never did.

Anonymous
Post 11/28/2024 20:37     Subject: Worst facilities and housing
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There are some serious Columbia haters on this board. Columbia dorms are pretty decent.


Nicer than Yale for sure.


Yale's were all renovated since my time there, and they were quite nice even before then. Plus some are new - the two new residential colleges.
Anonymous
Post 11/28/2024 20:36     Subject: Worst facilities and housing
Anonymous wrote:My daughter is living in a double room with two other girls at Yale. It would be small for two but it’s a nightmare for three. So factor over-enrollment into this discussion.


What do you mean a double? All rooms I knew at Yale were part of a suite, expect for a limited number in an annex. Which college is she in? What year is she?
Anonymous
Post 11/28/2024 13:11     Subject: Worst facilities and housing
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Same question for Virginia in state.


Virginia tech also has tiered pricing for dorms.


Thanks. I kind of meant rank the facilities of five schools my kids is applying to:

WM
VT
jMU
GMU
VCU
Anonymous
Post 11/28/2024 13:10     Subject: Worst facilities and housing
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Michigan does different pricing for different dorm rooms. So a deluxe single is more than a triple. My kids room has been small, nice, and convenient. No complaints!


But then you have the rich kids' dorm and the financial aid kid dorm.


This even happens at private colleges as well, FA kids usually get the worst rooms.
Anonymous
Post 11/28/2024 12:43     Subject: Worst facilities and housing
Boston University has some pretty horrible dorms.
Anonymous
Post 11/28/2024 12:41     Subject: Re:Worst facilities and housing
Anonymous wrote:Georgetown.


Stephen Trachtenberg, former president of GW effectively check-mated any shot for Georgetown when he bought mt Vernon property. G-town can now only go up, not out.
Anonymous
Post 11/28/2024 12:36     Subject: Worst facilities and housing
Anonymous wrote:Same question for Virginia in state.


Virginia tech also has tiered pricing for dorms.