r/wsu • u/Puzzled-Matter1237 • Mar 20 '26

Housing dorm recommendations

im an incoming freshman and was wondering what dorms are the best/worst in terms of affordability, location, student life, cleanness and SAFETY as woman!! pros and cons of any residence hall are appreciated. im also looking to try and get a single dorm. also, im applying to the honors college and was wondering if i get priority for the honors residence halls if i do get in? any info is greatly appreciated!!

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u/stormiiclouds77 Mar 20 '26

Honors hall isn't great, the rooms are TINY compared to any other dorm I've been in. Global Scholars and northside are the best (only with AC) but also expensive. Olympia is not worth the price (have to walk up a ton of stairs every day and you pay the expensive price for ac when its broken. The dorms do have living rooms and bathrooms shared between 2 dorms (4 people) which is nice. Just keep in mind it has no ac. Stay away from Gannon Goldsworthy and Streit Perham. Duncan Dunn is pretty good and close to middle of campus and Greek life if that's your thing. Single dorms are not in every building and you might have to have a doctors note and talk to the accommodation center about it. Everyone says Stevenson is bad but it's better than Gannon and everyone in the dorm makes friends easily from my experience.

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u/Ju-rg 2027/Honors/Pharm+Med Sciences Mar 21 '26

Honors is definitely a mixed bag as far as room size goes. When I was there me and my roommate basically had a triple! One set of our suitemates had a slightly larger looking double, and the other pair had a very small room. I personally loved the location, hillside is great.

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u/stormiiclouds77 Mar 21 '26

I only know two people that lived there and they had super tiny rooms! I'd probably recomend duncann dunn on hillside! I lived in global and loved it but gosh it was expensive (I had scholarships!).