Is Barton Hall the best dorm at RPI?
Students rated Barton Hall a 3.4/5 stars. Here's what they had to say.
1st floor is absolute hell, first semester during my final exams a pipe burst had to move out, second semester same thing happened and me and my roommates personal items were damaged by the water but we recieved no compensation because apparently the contract that we have no power to negotiate states that you have to have insurance. Pro tip buy renters insurance from a reputable company nearby. First-floor bathrooms are shared with the people next door pray that they are clean people because the people I had to live with were horrible, their towels smelled putrid as you walked by to use the toilet they would leave hampers in the shared bathroom and when the maintenance team told them not to put it there they began to leave clothing on the bathroom floor in piles. The smell go so bad I had to buy air fresheners which did not help by the way and this is not even mentioning the black mold that appeared after winter break which got so bad that the walls and ceiling were covered in it. Overall pray you are lucky to not get bad suitemates and not get the first floor. The room itself was not the worst however Davidson is a better choice.
Freshman Hill monolith. It was pretty clean and new when I got there! Bathroom options included shared among your wing and private en-suite, shared with the room next door. I had an en suite bathroom, though I heard the shared one wasn't so bad.
