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Quick Stats

On-Campus Housing Available? Yes
Campus Housing Capacity 1,044
Average Housing Costs $3,750
Freshmen Required to Live on Campus? Yes
Undergrads Living On Campus 81%
Number of Dormitories 9
Number of Campus-Owned Apartments 1
Best Dorms
  • Bundy
  • Warren
  • Wilson
Worst Dorms
  • Barrett
  • Horner

Student Author OverviewWhat's This?

While some dorms may offer more spacious and attractive living spaces, and others host more eccentric bands of students, all campus housing is clean and liveable. Warren, Wilson, and Bundy are popular dorms due to their recent facelifts, though some students contend that they are overly sterile and do not offer the same bonding experiences as OA, EH, and Barrett. EH and Barrett kids are notorious for their work ethic, and Hoerner (the quiet dorm, said to be designed by a prison architect) is in a class of its own. If you’re a social butterfly, steer clear, or you’ll end up feeling more like a caterpillar in a cocoon. Most students continue living in campus housing for most or all of their college career, tending to move out of dorms and into theme houses and friendship houses as sophomores and upperclassmen. Theme houses offer an opportunity for students with common interests to live together and build a community around shared languages, belief systems, or passions. By senior year, most students apply for friendship houses with a group of buddies, or live in Norwich Lodge (a converted conference center) or Brick City (a College-owned neighborhood of faculty and upperclassman apartments). If you want to stay on campus all four years, Residence Life will be delighted, and you shouldn’t have too much trouble accommodating your maturing demands. The only nightmare is the housing selection process, complete with lottery numbers, consensus processes, and pure dumb luck of the draw.

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Campus Housing at Earlham College

figzubat

Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution '15

3.5
B

The Dorms Are Were Just Your Average Dorms

The dorms are typical - small and prison-like, but you get used to them fast and can easily decorate them. They have freshman only housing, which I actually really like though a lot of my friends hated, saying they felt jipped, never meeting upperclassmen. The dorms are all close to each other and there's not that many options to pick from, considering how small the school itself is. The student houses are pretty cool though.

Nov 03, 2011

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Campus Housing at Earlham College

2009Grad

Art History '09

4.6
A

Housing

Listen, complain all you want about the campus living policies but last time I checked that was all clearly stated by the college on its website. Yes, it is hard to get exemptions to live off of campus but there are also LOTS of different places to live on campus. Don't like dorms? Try a friendship house. Low lottery number? There are always houses that follow the consensus process if you decide one of them fits your needs. Earlham is not for everyone but it seems irresponsible to grade the college poorly for things you could have known about before attending the school. Also, all campus living decisions are made by committees formed by students, staff and faculty. If you have a problem with the housing process DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. Otherwise, why even bother to go to Earlham? Take advantage of the fact that you go to a school that values student input as highly as it does and try to effect change.

Jul 14, 2011

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Campus Housing at Earlham College

dragonwriter57

'13

4.6
A

Mostly Good Dorms and Housing

Almost all of the dorms have been recently remodeled, so they are all nice. Also, no dorms are specifically for freshmen; freshmen are mixed with other students, although most freshman live with another freshman their first year. The only one that hasn't been is Hoerner, the quiet dorm (which is also the only dorm separated by sex). Most of the rooms are fairly large. Every dorm is at least a bit a party dorm, although Hoerner is the least so. On-campus houses haven't been remodeled recently, so they're not as nice, but living there gives you more independence, and most houses don't have an RA living there. These houses are organized by interest, such as Spanish house, Literature house, the bike co-op, and so on.

May 19, 2010

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User rating for Earlham College - Campus Housing is 4.6 out of 5 based on 14 user reviews.

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Facts

Room Types
  • Doubles
  • Singles
  • Suites
  • Triples
What You Get
  • Access to a kitchen equipped with microwaves, full-size refrigerators, stoves, sinks, counter space, and some individual storage units
  • Bed
  • Bookshelf
  • Desk and chair
  • Dresser
  • Ethernet connection
  • Mirror
  • Phone with voicemail
  • Towel bar
Also Available Along College Avenue are 28 houses available for students who wish to move out of the dorms. To live in a theme house, students must apply and sometimes go through a consensus process. To live in a friendship house, a group of students must apply for the house as a group, and they will be considered according to their randomly-assigned lottery numbers.

Cleaning Service

Yes, public areas, such as halls, kitchens, and bathrooms, are cleaned daily.

Did You Know?
  • With authorization, students are allowed to paint their rooms, and are even sometimes provided with paint and supplies.
  • Students who live at Miller Farm care for a vegetable garden, chickens, beehives, a newly-planted orchard, cats, and more.
  • Co-op, Polyglot, Whole Body Health, and Wellness Lifestyle halls are theme communities within residence halls open to all who are interested. Norwich is also home to Buddhist Hall.
  • First-years are almost guaranteed to get doubles, which are available in all dorms. Singles, also available in all dorms, are used to accommodate resident assistants, students with special needs, and upperclassmen with good lottery numbers. There are a small handful of triples in extra-large rooms in Warren and Wilson, and East Hall offers a suite-style option. The beliefs of Egalitarian Friends (another word for Quakers) explains why all dorms are coed and mixed years with communal bathrooms.

DormitoriesWhat's This?

Barrett Hall
Floors: 3, plus basement (nicknamed “the Burrow”)
Number of Occupants: 149
Bathrooms: Communal
Coed: Yes
Residents: All classes
Room Types: Singles and doubles
Special Features: Communal balconies

Bundy Hall
Floors: 3, plus basement
Number of Occupants: 159
Bathrooms: Communal
Coed: Yes
Residents: All classes
Room Types: Singles and doubles
Special Features: Wellness Lifestyle (substance-free) and Polyglot (language-study) theme floors

Earlham Hall (a.k.a. “EH”)
Floors: 4
Number of Occupants: 141
Bathrooms: Communal
Coed: Yes
Residents: All classes
Room Types: Singles and doubles
Special Features: Indoor connection to Saga and Runyan; Whole Body Health theme floor

Hoerner Hall
Floors: 2, plus basement
Number of Occupants: 85
Bathrooms: Communal
Coed: Yes
Residents: All classes
Room Types: Singles and doubles
Special Features: Designated Quiet Residence Hall; the only residence hall with skylights

Mills Hall
Floors: 3
Number of Occupants: 132
Bathrooms: Communal
Coed: Yes
Residents: All classes
Room Types: Two- and four-room suites
Special Features: Newest residence hall; cyber café on ground floor; connected to Warren and Wilson

Norwich Lodge
Floors: 2
Number of Occupants: 22
Bathrooms: Communal
Coed: Yes
Residents: All classes
Room Types: Singles and doubles
Special Features: Spacious dining hall, Buddhist hall

Olvey-Andis Hall (a.k.a. “OA”)
Floors: 3, plus basement
Number of Occupants: 118
Bathrooms: Communal
Coed: Yes
Residents: All classes
Room Types: Singles and doubles
Special Features: Communal balconies

Warren Hall (part of “the Suburbs”)
Floors: 3, plus basement
Number of Occupants: 47
Bathrooms: Communal
Coed: Yes
Residents: All classes
Room Types: Singles, doubles, and triples
Special Features: Warren and Wilson both feature the Co-Op Theme Hall option, where students share upkeep duties and prepare their own meals.

Wilson Hall (also part of “the ‘Burbs”)
Floors: 3
Number of Occupants: 47
Bathrooms: Communal
Coed: Yes
Residents: All classes
Room Types: Singles and doubles
Special Features: It’s a mirror-image of Warren.

Campus-Owned ApartmentsWhat's This?

Campus Village Apartments (a.k.a. “Brick City”)
Residents: Married and housing-exempt students, EC faculty and staff, non-EC residents
Room Types: One-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments
Special Features: Year-long leases; EC faculty and staff are given housing priority, followed by married and housing-exempt students, and then people not affiliated with the College.

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