Best University of Florida dorms
Ranking the best sophomore dorms at University of Florida, according to students.
Number 5
Lakeside Complex
based on 3 reviews
"I have lived in lakeside for 3 years. The rooms are apartment style, meaning each apartment has four private bedrooms and two bathrooms, as well as a kitchen and common area. Four people live in each apartment and each have their own bedroom. The bedrooms are pretty small, but it is nice to have your own space, and awesome to share a bathroom with just one other person. The kitchen has a full sized fridge, microwave, stove, oven, sink, and garbage disposal. There are bar seats. There is a common room with a couch. Lakeside is really close to the largest gym on campus, but further from most classes than other dorms. However, there are two bus stops at lakeside, with buses running to the heart of campus about every 5-15 minutes (the bus ride is like 7 minutes long and not bad at all). There are many parking spots, but they do get full. However, if full, people can park at the gym which is about a 5 minute walk away. Lakeside is close to Archer road, Lake Alice, the intramural sports fields, and Southwest Recreation Center. Important note- laundry facilities are in a separate building in the center of the complex so you do have to leave your building to do laundry, but this has never been a problem for me." - 4 years ago
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Broward Hall
based on 6 reviews
"The Broward area is by far the best location to live as a freshman if you want to be central to campus and have easy access to dining halls, libraries, and classes. It is definitely a social dorm that is the stereotypical "freshman dorm" at UF. Important note: bring sweatpants/sweatshirt/anything warm because it stays freezing in the rooms, but you don't want to turn the A/C down because it will get moldy/humid like most dorms will. Overall, I had a great experience at Broward, and I would highly recommend it for incoming freshman to UF." - 4 years ago
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Fletcher Hall
based on 1 review
"My experience at Fletcher Hall was great! you can't bit the location, literally in the middle of campus, just steps from the Swamp. The building is so beautiful, the architecture is outstanding. The three room triple rooms are of a very nice size! They come with an XL twin bed, you can raise the bed frame and use the bottom as storage or place the dresser, a mini fridge or a futon under it. You have space in the middle to place a rug and a little chair. The room comes with a dresser, a desk, chair and a closet with doors. My room had a big window with so much natural light. Our three room triple had a common area where we place the tv, a futon and two chairs and a baker's rack. The three of us shared a bathroom. The toilet was separated from the shower.
Cons, no elevator, no kitchen in our floor, not enough space in our common area to have more than a couple of friends over and the laundry facilities are across the building in the commons. To cook we had to get out of our building and go into the side, to another entrance and upstairs to the closes community kitchen." - 2 years agoWe collected 1 dorm reviews for Fletcher Hall
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Weaver Hall
based on 3 reviews
"It's the international dorm so you get to meet people from around the world. It has wood floors and the hallways are wider than other dorms. The lighting is a warm yellow rather than harsh white. The kitchen and common room are quite big. There is also a study room on the first floor, a game room in the basement that has a HDMI projector, and a laundry room. There is weaver beach, which is basically a lawn that you can picnic on. The famous Mudfest is on that lawn. The dorm is in a really good location too. There is a swimming pool and a Chomp It (on-campus convenience store) just down the hill. It is also next to O'Connell Center and super close to the stadium. The main campus is just down stadium road. It will probably take you 10-15 min to walk to the main campus/HUB area. If you don't want to walk, (I'm not judging) there are 3 bus stops super close by. The gym (Student Rec) is about halfway down stadium road, so it's pretty close to this dorm as well. It's also right next to the gator dining building (2 min away). There is a parking lot for faculty and guests in front of the building, and student parking about 5 min walk away. There is also a whole clan of cats that lives in the woods next to the lawn. There is a super friendly cat dubbed Tenders, that you can pet and give treats to. :) This dorm also has an elevator that you can use daily. Usually, most other dorms use the elevator only for moving in/out. The mailroom is super close too (2 min away)." - 4 years ago
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Cypress Hall
based on 3 reviews
"I lived in a single last year and I loved it. When you're in a single you have a massive amount of space for yourself and I only had to share the bathroom with another single next to me so it was 2 people to the bathroom. My floor was really close and so we had a ton of fun doing stuff together, and Cypress itself had a lot of events downstairs that we went to too. Laundry is on the floor you live on so you don't have to deal with the hassle of carrying your clothes up and downstairs. The kitchen is big enough to fit more than enough people, and in my experience, it was only crowded late at night when everyone got together to play games or watch a movie. I got lucky with my floor because everyone was very social, but it depends on the type of people you have on your floor.
Perks specific to Cypress: AN ELEVATOR THANK GOD, your mail packages are literally downstairs (as they are for the entire area so people from the other dorms have to walk to cypress). LAUNDRY ON YOUR FLOOOORRR <3 and it's super modern and clean!" - 4 years agoWe collected 3 dorm reviews for Cypress Hall
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