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Quick StatsUndergrads Living on Campus
99 %
Best Dorms
- The Butterfields (the Butts)
- West College (WestCo)
Number of Campus Owned Apartments
7
College Prowler Take
For incoming freshmen, social life is centered around Foss Hill, where all students are assigned rooms during their first year. Though the social scene changes from year-to-year, there is a definite personality or, in some cases, a stigma attached to each dorm. The largest dorm on Foss Hill is called WestCo, short for West College, and it tends to be the epicenter of social interactions for underclassmen at Wesleyan. Getting into WestCo requires filling out an extra housing application, but for students who love vibrant social atmospheres, it’s an extra step worth taking. The other dorms, while slightly less social, have reputations of their own. Located directly across from WestCo, the Nicholson dorms are an excellent choice for their easy access to MoCon. They’re also less noisy. Two of the quietest dorms on Foss Hill are the Hewitts and Clark Hall. The Hewitt dorms are made almost entirely of singles and tend to be home to sophomores who want zero dorm community and are looking for nothing more than a quiet place to work. Consequently, the Hewitts are, for the most part, labeled anti-social. Hewitt 9, one of three Hewitt buildings, is traditionally home to a large populace of sports-oriented sophomores who, while being social with one another, tend not to mingle well with the rest of the school. No dorm is quite as ridiculed as Clark Hall. Residents at Clark Hall are characterized as being anti-social, immature, and uninteresting. In actuality, Clark provides the cleanest, most accommodating living area on campus, and the students who live there are far from anti-social or uninteresting. Students Speak Out
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I lived in WestCo my freshman...
I lived in WestCo my freshman year, and it was incredible. It’s definitely the center of social life on Foss Hill. There was always something going on. Occasionally, it drove me nuts; it was impossible to get to sleep at times, with all the yelling and banging. For the most part, though, it was fantastic. There’s a big sense of dorm community and lots of dorm-centered activities if you’re into that sort of thing. |
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Most freshman start out on Foss...
Most freshman start out on Foss Hill, which is great because it’s in the center of everything. WestCo is the big social dorm on the hill, though Hewitt and Nicholson aren’t bad. Everything’s pretty clean. Occasionally, someone will set off a fire alarm, but you’d get that kind of thing no matter where you went to school. |
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The dorms are hideous, especially...
The dorms are hideous, especially the ones on Foss Hill, but what do you expect college dorms to look like? The rooms are pretty big in comparison to other universities. I had a single my freshman and sophomore years, and it was wonderful. Live in the Butts (Butterfield Dorms) if you can. They’re very social and sort of a community all unto themselves. |
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I lived in Clark my freshman year,...
I lived in Clark my freshman year, and everyone called it the Children’s Hospital because it was so clean. It was antiseptic in there. But I met some great people and made some friendships that lasted. It was a great place to live, despite it being made fun of all the time. |
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WestCo is the best (Co). Clark is...
WestCo is the best (Co). Clark is adequate for a dorm that looks like a hospital. |
FactsWhat You Get
- Bed
- Bookshelf
- Closet or dresser
- Desk and chair
- Ethernet access
- Free campus and local phone calls
- Window coverings
Room Types
- Doubles
- Singles
- Split-doubles – The most common-style dorm room: two singles connected by a private door with main hallway access through only one room
Available for Rent
Microwaves
Minifridges
Bed Types
- Bunkable beds
- Lofts
- Twin extra-long
Also Available
- Gender-Neutral Housing — All Wesleyan housing is gender-neutral in an effort to allow students to live outside the gender binary. All halls are coed by room (there is one single-gendered hall for each gender somewhere in the Nics, and they’re not popular options). Floors vote at the beginning of the year whether the bathrooms are coed or single gendered. After freshman year, students are allowed to live with whomever they want, and many choose roommates of the opposite gender (freshman are never assigned roommates of the opposite gender). These living arrangements also attempt to make it more comfortable for students with different gender identities (for example, transsexual or transgendered students) to live among their peers.
- Program Houses—These are residences where a small number of students may live together. Each program house has a particular theme (there are 25 houses), and tends to be actual wood-frame houses rather than dormitories. To enter a program house, a student must first fill out a housing application that is reviewed by the current members of that house. Program houses are not available to freshmen.
- Special-Interest Housing—This lies somewhere between regular dormitory life and program housing. Available to freshmen and sophomores in 200 Church and WestCo, special-interest housing tends to be more focused on dorm community and/or particular special interests. There is also a certain degree of self-governance, as the special-interest houses tend to elect their own house presidents or assemblies to oversee the residential affairs of that particular house.
- Substance-Free—The Butterfield Dorms (three-minute walk from Foss Hill) house the substance-free floor. In this space, alcohol and nicotine are not permitted. These halls are ideal for those who do not partake in drinking or drugs and wish to live in a calm environment. An application is not required to live on a sub-free floor. However, all residents must sign a contract agreeing not to take alcohol or nicotine into their living area.
- West College—Located on Foss Hill, West College, or WestCo as it is commonly known, offers a community-centered environment. The residents at WestCo are extremely social and participate in weekly guidance meetings to discuss events and activities for the dorm. WestCo is located over the WestCo Café, a venue for weekly improv shows, rock concerts, and a variety of other events. Music, the arts, and the overall community atmosphere are all key pillars of the WestCo mentality.
Cleaning Service
Public bathrooms and hallways are cleaned regularly, as are common rooms. Private housing is not cleaned, ever.
Dormitories
156 High Street
Residents: Upperclassmen
200 Church Street
Floors: 4
Number of Occupants: 41
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Mostly freshmen
Room Types: Singles, doubles
200 Church Street offers a specialized community for students of underrepresented racial, ethnic, and oppressed groups, and offers programs such as guest speakers, films, and discussions addressing racism and oppression
202 Washington
Residents: Upperclassmen
230 Washington
Residents: Upperclassmen
Butterfield A,B,C
Floors: 3
Number of Occupants: 406
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen, upperclassmen
Room Types: Singles, doubles
In addition to residence halls, the “Butts” also contains the dining hall Summerfields, the College of Letters, the Career Resource Center, and several classrooms and seminar rooms. It's also home of the “Butt Hole,” a courtyard in between the three dormitories that hosts events like “Buttstock” and has grills for student use. Located slightly off campus, the Butterfields offer an open sub-community within the Wesleyan student body.
Clark Hall
Floors: 7
Number of Occupants: 137
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen
Room Types: Doubles
Clark Hall contains kitchen and laundry facilities, lounges, a patio, a large open lobby, and is handicapped accessible. The interior of the building was one of the more recently renovated. Clark Hall is located immediately astride Olin Library, across from Foss Hill
Fauver
Floors: 3
Number of Occupants: 160
Bathrooms: Communal
Residents: Freshmen
Room Types: Doubles
Home of the “Fauver Fishbowl,” a large community kitchen and laundry facility. Favuer was designed to promote community interaction.
Hewitt
Floors: 3
Number of Occupants: 180
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen, upperclassmen
Room Types: Singles, doubles, split-doubles
Hewitt is located on Foss Hill, and includes laundry facilities and common areas that host yoga, dance rehearsals, poetry nights, and other programs.
Nicholson
Floors: 3
Number of Occupants: 210
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Mostly freshmen
Room Types: Singles, doubles, split-doubles
Located on Foss Hill and includes laundry facilities. Nicholson hosts yoga, dance rehearsals, poetry nights, and other programs. It also contains the only single-gender floors to be found on campus (and they're not very popular).
West College (WestCo)
Floors: 3
Number of Occupants: 129
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen, sophomores
Room Types: Singles, doubles, split-doubles
West College (WestCo) residents attend weekly guidance meetings during which they participate in resident government. WestCo is located over the WestCo Café, where many concerts and comedy shows are held on campus.
Campus Owned Apartments
Fauver Apartments
Floors: 4
Bathrooms: Private
Coed: Yes
Residents: Seniors
Room Types: Fauver Apartments is made up of five-person apartments, each with five smallish bedrooms, a full kitchen, a living space, and one or two bathrooms.
A lounge, vending machines, indoor bike storage, and a laundry room.
Hi-Rise
Floors: 8
Bathrooms: Private
Coed: Yes
Residents: Mostly juniors, with some sophomores and seniors
Room Types: Small and large. Small apartments have two small bedrooms, a kitchen/common space, a common closet, and a bathroom. Large apartments have two large bedrooms, a kitchen, a dining/common room, lots of closet space, and a bathroom.
Hi-Rise has its own laundry room and parking lot, elevators, and a lounge. It is located on Church Street, a little downhill from the rest of campus, but conveniently close to WesWings.
Lo-Rise
Number of Units: 36
Bathrooms: Private
Coed: Yes
Residents: Mostly juniors, and some seniors
Room Types: Lo-Rise is made up of four-person condo-like units, with four tiny bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs, and a big kitchen and common space downstairs.
Lo-Rise shares a laundry room and parking lot with Hi-Rise, and is located directly behind it, practically across the street from Broad Street Books and the Red & Black Café.
Did You Know?Every semester, all program houses are reviewed by the Office of Residential Life to ensure that they meet resident needs and ResLife standards. Wesleyan housing is designed around a system of “graduated independence": Freshmen have a dorm experience, sophomores can live in program houses, juniors can live in apartments, and seniors can live in their own wood-frame houses. Freshman roommate assignment is totally random, and the people in the office of Residential Life have quirky senses of humor. One year, they put only people with names of characters on the Brady Bunch in one hall.
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