Is Yosemite Hall the best dorm at UC Davis?

All the dorm living situations are what you make of it and the people you get paired with. Despite submitting a roommate request, UC Davis decided not to honor it, admitting more students than rooms, and instead splitting up requested pairs and placing them into other doubles. Regardless, the room is relatively spacious, however, lacks storage if you are in a triple because there's only one under-bed storage. You can of course change the room layout, but typically its placed with a bunk bed and a lofted bed with a desk and cabinet underneath, and closets on one wall and desks on the other. It is definitely nice compared to the other dorms offered at Davis, but it also isn't the greatest. The view of the room is just okay—because the building is placed so close to the surrounding apartments, everyone can see through into each other's rooms. Since the bathroom is placed in the room as its suite-style, the bathroom is how clean you make it. The bathroom is only cleaned once a week compared to every day like the communal bathrooms, so the cleanliness is dependent on you and your roommates/suitemates. In regards to location, it is super convenient being close to trader joes but it honestly isn't too bad of a bike ride to campus. It's only an extra 2 minutes to get onto campus, typically taking me 8 minutes to bike to the library. TLDR Pro: Location & proximity to bike parking, in-suite bathroom, spacious lounges and kitchen, newer building, proximity to dining commons Con: in-suite bathroom, bike parking, prone to blackouts/lack electricity (on different generator than the rest of campus)

Yosemite is a really nice hall with great lighting and friendly people. My room was relatively spacious and my suit-mates where friendly. I was an RA at the time so I had the room to myself and I really enjoyed it. However the hall itself was very loud and often there was noise complaints. It is also located farther from campus although it is "on-campus" housing so that is often the biggest issue for people. However, it is located near Trader Joe's and there is lots of lounges to study in which is a big con.

The location was a little inconvenient since its offcampus but you get used to it since its only a block away. However the inside more than makes up for it since its relatively cleaner and the non-communal restrooms make up for it. It’s also newer so expect the quality to be better.

Brand new & supppperr nice! We have our own private bathrooms with 1 or 2 other triples/ doubles. There’s a lot of really great lounges (both study & relaxing ones) & the rooms seem a bit bigger than older dorms. Only sucky thing is location, but it’s really not that bad I promise. It’s next to the best DC too which is never crowded :)

Overall it’s a lot nicer than some of the other dorms. Triple can seem like a stretch because the rooms were meant for 2 people but it’s not bad. Had a triple for the first quarter then roommate moved out so it turned into a double. Only issue is bike parking can fill up so if you’re coming back late...good luck. In my opinion segundo has better food.