Twenty-one residence halls accommodate almost 6,000 students in single rooms, double rooms, multiple occupancy rooms, and apartments. All halls are coeducational, but specific wings and floors house occupants of the same gender. Each fall the residence halls provide a new home for more than 3,000 entering freshmen. Requests for permission to reside off campus for other reasons are considered on their merits, taking into account individual circumstances. The residence halls provide a range of services and programs designed to support the intellectual, social, and personal growth of single student residents.
All residence halls, for example, offer tutoring services to residents at no cost.
Some halls offer special facilities, such as a dark room, computer room, an academic skills lab, or a music room. Further, minicourses are offered on subjects such as photography and cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and a variety of academic and social programs are sponsored by residence hall and other university staff. The residence hall dining service hours are planned to be convenient for most students' schedules, and self-serve salad bars are available at noon and evening meals. Steak nights, ice cream socials, and late-night coffee and cookie breaks during exam week are among the special activities planned during the semester. Two residence halls, Farrand and Sewall, house distinctive liberal arts programs.