Dormitory arrangements

[ZTAngel]

At UCF, we had a few dorms that were all girls, a few all boy dorms, and a few coed dorms. The coed dorms divided the boys and girls up by floors. Girls would be on the 3rd and 4th floor while the boys would be on the 1st and 2nd floor. That way, a bunch of guys would not be living next door to a group of girls. There were no limits on visitation.

[maggieaxid]

At elon, there are a few single sex dorms, and then mostly co-ed dorms by suites or floors. Freshman and sophmores have to live on campus, so the sophmores usually get the greek houses, the campus apartments, and the "Danieley Center" wich is its own little campus off by itself, which is surrounded by off campus housing that the juniors and seniors live in. Not many juniors or seniors live on campus except for in the greek houses.

[AOX81]

We didn't have dorms at the University of Michigan-Flint

[AlphaChiGirl]

At Brown, there's one single-sex HALLWAY. That's called "the convent", specifically for girls whose parents request that their daughters stay in single-sex living arrangements.

Other than that, it's a free-for-all. Rooms and suites have to be single-sex, but we're co-ed by hall, meaning you can live next to someone of the opposite sex. I never saw a problem with it--there weren't that many hook-ups. Lots of couples, but not so many hookups.

[IowaHawkeye]

At Iowa, there's one dorm thats coed by floor meaning you could be living next to guys/girls. The other 8 dorms are all coed by floor - ie: floor 1 girls, floor 2 boys, ect...

Our visitation policy was actually kind of funny - if you had a member of the opposite sex in your room overnight, you were not supposed to sleep. Of course we all laughed about that, b/c we interpreted that as find other ways to keep yourselves "occupied" Obviously, people had guests in their rooms all the time and RAs never enforced any policy.

[Eirene_DGP]

We have all co-ed dorms. The guys are typically on the first floor and sometimes the second (depending on the dorm). The girls are on the 2nd and third floors. Our school is talking about doing co-ed floors in the fall. That should be interesting.

Our apartments are single sex for the most part, but anything goes.

[Senusret I]

Georgetown has coed dorms. . .

Most halls were coed, although some floors were all female. I happened to live on an all male floor my freshman year. It was all male because the second and third floors of my dorm were half the size of the rest of the floors, so instead of half male/half female, they put the dudes on my floor and the girls beneath.

Anyway, they weren't really separated by wing, so you could theoretically be next door to someone of the opposite sex.

We did have one place on campus called the Black House, which was basically a special interest house for multicultural events. That was the only house that had both men and women. The other apartments, houses, and suites had to be single-gendered because of rules against cohabitation.

[bucutie02]

At Baylor there was no such thing as co-ed dorms. Heaven forbid you had girls and guys living in the same building! Baylor, for all those who dont know, is the largest baptist school in the world.

Anyway, i remember that we couldnt even have guys in our rooms during the week. Visiting hours were on the weekends only, and from like 12-6pm. The guys could stay in the lobby but that was about it. The only guys allowed upstairs during non-visiting hours were family members like fathers, brothers, uncles, and grandfathers.

[breathesgelatin]

At W&L freshman housing is co-ed by floor. After that you either live in Greek housing or you are in suites/apartments that are co-ed by suite/apartment.

No visitation limits.

[AOX81]

We didn't have dorms.

[OrigamiTulip]

UF had every kind of arrangement imaginable. There are:
- Virgin vaults, both male and female, where there was no opposite gender visitation ever allowed (including relatives) Those are being phased out after this academic year though
- Traditional dorms, coed by floor or by wing.
- Non-air dorms coed by room.
- Apartments and suites were coed by room.
- Apartments for families with and without children.

[GeekyPenguin]

At the school where I initiated:

1 all female dorm, 8 wings, double rooms.
1 all male dorm, 8 wings, double rooms
4 coed by floor/wing dorms, 9 wings, double rooms
2 coed by floor/wing dorm, 8 wings, double rooms
1 coed dorm by floor/wing, 11 or 12 wings, all double rooms except one wing of singles

There was some sort of visitation policy that all guests had to be registered with the front desk, but it was NEVER followed. I stayed in my dorm to visit when I was underage and I may or may not have shacked a whole lot - particularily after I've moved out.

At the school where I'll graduate from:

I believe there's currently 10 dorms - some are converted housing because they took way too many freshmen. Some are living on my street in a former halfway house! The dorms range from quads with common bathrooms to singles with a private bathroom and most of them are quite nice.

There's also upperclassmen/grad housing in the form of apartments - again, everything from studios to a 5 bedroom townhouse.

The visitation policy here is apparently pretty uptight, I never lived on so I'm not entirely sure. I do know, however, that my mom managed to have overnight male guests in the 70s, so I'm betting it's still easy to violate.

[GPhiLlama]

We have-

One male freshman dorm divided by wings, with females living on the top floor and one wing of the floor below.

One female freshman dorm, with the second-to-top floor being the honors floor with one male wing and one female, the top floor being an upperclassman coed substance-free floor.

Two coed by room upperclassman dorms.

[swissmiss04]

Res Life @ Alabama is notoriously shitty. All of my friends at other universities have it so good compared to what I had. I only lived on campus for one year. I actually moved off campus to save money. Yeah. The dorm I lived in was finished the week I moved in, and it was supported a lot by private grants (I was in an honors type living learning program) It was gorgeous! (And also $1700 per semester) A bit small, but the architecture was beautiful and there were nice airy common rooms on each floor. We were coed by floor, w/ floor 2 being all guys and 3 and 4 all girls. There was a little hooking up but in general we were all like family.
There are a few older apartment buildings meant for grad and married students. There's a huge apartment building coed by apartment that houses mostly upper classmen and lots of athletes. There is a large men's dorm that's about to be torn down, and then there's the notorious Tutwiler hall, also known as Slutwiler or 14 floors of whores (all girls). It's mostly freshman and mostly greek, and it houses nearly 1000 girls. It's insanity in that place. There are a few ok dorms but in general the situation is rather run down and old. Only about 25% of the student population lives on campus anyways.

[CardinalSM]

The living situation at Mercer isn't bad. . . freshmen and sophomores are required to live on campus but a lot of juniors and seniors stay on anyway. My only complaint is it is soooo expensive to live on campus. I live in the Greek Village and am paying about $2040 per semester.
Here's the breakdown:

Mary Erin Porter Complex: all freshman in three dorms. Dowell is community bath for guys and Boone is community bath for girls. Porter is suite bath for girls. Not too bad. I lived in Boone and Porter freshman year.

Plunkett: freshmen coed by wing. ewww this place is nasty and the rooms are like closets. and "Plunketteers" tend to be a little crazy sometimes!

Shorter: Freshmen coed by floor. VERY nice! 2 rooms connected by a living room with suite baths.

Roberts: Upperclassmen coed by floor, community bath. EW that is all I have to say.

Mercer Hall: upperclass coed by suite, 2 bedroom or 4 bedroom suites with living room and a bathroom for every 2 rooms. You get your own room and it is WONDERFUL. Nicest dorm on campus

Sherwood: Upperclass coed by floor. normal dorm suite style but with really big rooms. Really nice.

Garden: upperclass coed by apartment. Private bedrooms 2-4 per apartment. a bathroom for every 2 bedrooms. kitchen and living room. Very nice and very ahrd to get into.

Winship: Similar to Garden except not furnished and used for grad and non traditional students or undergrad overflow.

Stadium Drive: Apartments obviously built in the late 60s-early 70s. 2-5 person. Kinda sketchy and really far from the hub of campus. Right near the really bad part of town that campus backs up to. We all try to avoid living in Stadium.

Greek Village: 10 rooms houses, private rooms. 2 story with huge common rooms and kitchen/laundry room and an office. I currently live in the house owned by Panhellenic. (Some houses are 5 rooms, 1 story for the smaller chapters.)