|
|
Bard College - Campus HousingCollege Prowler2.31
Comparable Schools'
Campus Housing Grades:
Quick StatsUndergrads Living on Campus
77 %
Freshmen Required to Live on Campus
Yes - Exceptions if over 21, married, a veteran, or have a permanent residence within 50 miles of campus.
College Prowler Take
The dorms on campus are just as eclectic as the students they house. Looking around, you’ll quickly notice Bard’s signature lack of architectural consistency. While some on-campus houses look like sprawling 18th-century manors, others appear to be dilapidated pre-war bomb shelters. Many of the newer dorms (like the Village series, for instance) sport modern conveniences and eco-friendly devices like auto-shut-off lights and geothermal heating. Older dorms, on the other hand, lack even basic amenities, like air conditioning. On average, newer and nicer dorms seem to produce more satisfied tenants, or at least better smelling ones, than the less remarkable dorms, but they can have the sterile aura of a hotel. The worst dorms are guaranteed to have the best school spirit, as these disgruntled students tend to rally behind their shabby but eccentric buildings. Also, all but one on-campus house is coed, so inter-gender mixing is rampant in both bathrooms and bedrooms.
Each year, just before graduation, Bard holds its annual ‘room draw’ in the Stevenson gymnasium to determine where returning students will live next fall. Each Bardian is assigned a random raffle number, and when your number is called, it’s your turn to pick a pad. Furthermore, come fall, Bard continues to admit more students than it can feasibly accommodate, which inevitably leads to severe housing shortages. Mendicant and clearly a little unhappy, these students often end up in makeshift trailers or else packed into cramped ad hoc triples—not where you expect to be after shelling out thousands of bucks for a supposedly decent place to stay. Still, just about any room can be comfortably livable with some tactful decorating strategies.
Students Speak Out
Love your school more than free food? Hate your school more than term papers?
Somewhere in between? Show the world what YOU think of YOUR school:
Anonymous says:  |
One year, I got the privilege of...
One year, I got the privilege of living in a trailer—literally, a trailer. It was because Bard over-booked and ran out of places to put freshmen. Some people had to suffer in an actual building with foundations and stairs and different floors, but I was lucky enough to score something that they use to transport horses. No air-conditioning, no Ethernet for most of the year, but all the glamour that comes along with hanging out in a 10x10 rectangle with three other people, all while being supported by four wobbly stacks of cinder blocks. They should have let us live there for free, but instead we got charged full room and board. |
lolo313 says: Bard College 2013 Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics |
You Could Do a Lot Worse...
B-
The dorms at Bard are that bad. I lived in a trailer my freshman year, but hey, everything was new and clean, and I had a HUGE room. There are some pretty sick upperclassmen dorms, but you have to just get lucky to live in them sometimes. There are a couple of crappy dorms, but hey, that's the same everywhere. Honestly, where you live is what you make of it. If you surround yourself with good people, and make your room your own, you'll be fine.
Campus Housing: March 08, 2010
Report |
gu632 says: Bard College 2011 Arts, Visual and Performing |
Variety of Dorms, Not Much Community
A-
Feitler is a housing coop near campus but besides that the dorms are pretty sterile. There is a north and south campus that are commutable by shuttle. As a freshman you will be assigned to a dorm and required to live on campus. Tewksbury is the dirtiest but all the rooms are parallel to one another so it creates a community environment. Most students prefer to live off campus after the first couple years at Bard - the off campus options are not bad - tivoli is very expensive at $550 average/person, and redhook and germantown have beautiful locations near or on farms.
Campus Housing: March 08, 2010
Report |
mawexrom says: Bard College 2012 Arts, Visual and Performing |
Freshman Live in Trailers
C
I'm not kidding about that. I'd say about half the freshman are in "temporary housing," which for the record has lasted at least the last five years. All my kitchens so far have been small and nasty, mostly because the students are rude and throw crap all over them and steal other people's food. Dead serious. Get your own fridge if you want to live here. Some of the dorms are beautiful: Stone Row, Manor, Old Robbins, the Villages and the New Toasters. Others are atrocious. The worst thing in my opinion is that if you live on campus you have to be on the meal plan, but it's not convenient to live off campus.
Campus Housing: March 03, 2010
Report |
Anonymous says: |
Every dorm here has a personality...
Every dorm here has a personality of its own. You can judge a person by where they live. Living in Feitler obviously means you’re into organic food; living in Stone Row means you’re into work; and living in Tewksbury means you’re a freshman. |
Interested in
Bard College? FactsWhat You Get
- Desk and chair
- Ethernet connections and/or wireless
- Phone jack
- Window coverings
Available for Rent
Shelving
Cleaning Service
Aramark, the cleaning service, will clean the public areas in each dorm (kitchens, bathrooms, common rooms, hallways), but they will not clean your private living space. Provided that residents do their part to respect their living space, the staff is usually very congenial.
Dormitories
Bartlett
Floors: 1
Number of Occupants: 21
Bathrooms: Shared
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshman
Room Types: Singles, doubles
Alcohol Free
Bleucher
Floors: 2
Number of Occupants: 21
Bathrooms: Shared
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen
Room Types: Doubles
Alcohol Free
Bourne
Floors: 2
Number of Occupants: 19
Bathrooms: Shared
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen, upperclassmen
Room Types: Doubles
Alcohol Free
Briggs
Floors: 2
Number of Occupants: 7
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Singles, Doubles
Wellness Housing
Cruger
Floors: 3
Number of Occupants: 75
Bathrooms: Shared
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen, upperclassmen
Room Types: Singles, Doubles
Substance-free housing
Feitler
Floors: 2
Number of Occupants: 10
Bathrooms: Shared
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Singles
Co-op living
Hirsch
Floors: 3
Number of Occupants: 29
Bathrooms: Shared
Coed: Yes
Residents: Sophomores
Room Types: Singles, doubles
Wellness Housing
Honey House
Floors: 3
Number of Occupants: 9
Bathrooms: Shared
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen
Room Types: Doubles
Hudson
Floors: 1
Number of Occupants: 38
Bathrooms: Shared
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen, upperclassmen
Room Types: Singles, doubles
Alcohol Free
Keen North
Floors: 2
Number of Occupants: 34
Bathrooms: Shared
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen, upperclassmen
Room Types: Singles, doubles
Alcohol Free
Keen South
Floors: 2
Number of Occupants: 44
Bathrooms: Shared
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen, upperclassmen
Room Types: Singles, doubles
Alcohol Free
Leonard
Floors: 3
Number of Occupants: 21
Bathrooms: Shared
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen
Room Types: Doubles
Wellness housing
Manor Annex
Floors: 1
Number of Occupants: 38
Bathrooms: Shared
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Singles, doubles
Quiet housing, Manor Café
Manor House
Floors: 1
Number of Occupants: 32
Bathrooms: Shared
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Singles, doubles
Manor Café
McVickar
Floors: 3
Number of Occupants: 18
Bathrooms: Shared
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Singles, doubles
No air-conditioning or laundry
Mulberry
Floors: 1
Number of Occupants: 13
Bathrooms: Shared
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen
Room Types: Doubles
Wellness housing, Alcohol Free
North Hoffman
Floors: 3
Number of Occupants: 18
Bathrooms: Shared
Coed: Yes
Residents: Seniors
Room Types: Singles, doubles
Quiet housing
Oberholzer
Floors: 3
Number of Occupants: 52
Bathrooms: Shared
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen, upperclassmen
Room Types: Singles, doubles
Quiet housing
Obreshkove
Floors: 2
Number of Occupants: 21
Bathrooms: Shared
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen
Room Types: Doubles
Wellness, quiet housing, alcohol free
Potter
Floors: 3
Number of Occupants: 18
Bathrooms: Shared
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen, upperclassmen
Room Types: Singles, doubles
No laundry or air-conditioning
Robbins
Floors: 2
Number of Occupants: 66
Bathrooms: Shared
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Singles, doubles
No carpet or air-conditioning
Rovere
Floors: 3
Number of Occupants: 19
Bathrooms: Shared
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen, upperclassmen
Room Types: Singles, doubles
No laundry in building
Rueger
Floors: 3
Number of Occupants: 19
Bathrooms: Shared
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen, upperclassmen
Room Types: Doubles
Sands
Floors: 2
Number of Occupants: 24
Bathrooms: Shared
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Singles, doubles
Wellness housing. Located in an old farmhouse
Sawkill
Floors: 1
Number of Occupants: 10
Bathrooms: Shared
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Doubles
No air-conditioning, carpet, or key-card enterance
Shafer
Floors: 3
Number of Occupants: 19
Bathrooms: Shared
Coed: No, women only
Residents: Freshmen, upperclassmen
Room Types: Singles, doubles
Quiet housing
Shelov
Floors: 3
Number of Occupants: 19
Bathrooms: Shared
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen, upperclassmen
Room Types: Doubles
South Hall
Floors: 2
Number of Occupants: 36
Bathrooms: Shared
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen, upperclassmen
Room Types: Singles, doubles
Alcohol Free, Quiet Housing
South Hoffman
Floors: 3
Number of Occupants: 18
Bathrooms: Shared
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Singles, doubles
No air-conditioning
Spruce
Floors: 1
Number of Occupants: 13
Bathrooms: Shared
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen
Room Types: Doubles
Quiet, wellness housing
Steinway
Floors: 3
Number of Occupants: 19
Bathrooms: Shared
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen, upperclassmen
Room Types: Singles, doubles
Wellness housing
Sycamore
Floors: 1
Number of Occupants: 13
Bathrooms: Shared
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen
Room Types: Doubles
Wellness housing
Tewksbury
Floors: 3
Number of Occupants: 97
Bathrooms: Shared
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen, upperclassmen
Room Types: Singles, doubles
Tremblay
Floors: 3
Number of Occupants: 29
Bathrooms: Shared
Coed: Yes
Residents: Sophomores
Room Types: Doubles
Wellness housing
Village Dorms
Floors: 2–3 in each building
Number of Occupants: 235
Bathrooms: Shared
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Singles, doubles, suites
Eco-friendly living, smoke-free and wellness housing
Williams
Floors: 3
Number of Occupants: 39
Bathrooms: Shared
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen
Room Types: Doubles
Alcohol Free
Wolff
Floors: 2
Number of Occupants: 21
Bathrooms: Shared
Coed: No, women only
Residents: Freshmen
Room Types: Singles, doubles
Substance-free and quiet housing
Did You Know?
The Village Dorms were designed with the environment in mind. Bathroom lights shut themselves off after you leave, and much of each dorm’s heat is generated geo-thermally.
Write for Us! College Prowler is actively seeking talented students to be "Contributing Authors," and assist with updating
the College Prowler guide to their school. This is a great opportunity for a student to gain internship experience, be a part of a nationally
recognized company, gain tremendous exposure, utilize new media techniques, and share advice with high school students about what life is
really like at your college. Read more >
|
|
