apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

I'm a sophomore, and I'll be living in my own apartment, but both of my sisters live in dorms. I'd say luxurious dorms are rare. My sister who goes to a large public school lived in what would have been a double with a little living room and two tiny 8 x 10 ish rooms that opened into the main area...except that they stuck four girls into the space. They had bunkbeds and two dressers each room, there was around 2 feet of walking space. The main room had four desks and a little patch of floor with a rug and a futon against the wall. Needless to say she's living somewhere else this year.

My other sister goes to a much more expensive private liberal arts school. The dorms are kept up a lot nicer and she's had rooms with bay windows, although she's always had a roommate.

I think it is just like apartments, you get what you pay for.

My younger sister attended a private liberal arts college (the kind that pretends it's in New England) around 2003. The policy at the time was three students to an 10' x 10' room -- no faux apartments, no living rooms, just one room with an industrial vinyl floor and utilitarian furniture.

Back in the early 1990s, the U of MN (public) was building faux-apartment-suite dorms that were really nice, and the husband remembers living in a utilitarian but large one at RPI (private) in the late 1970s. So I think your level of luxury depends on how flush with money the specific college was feeling.