Best housing at Stanford for sophomores

Housing reviews / descriptions of the different options.

Misc

Suites — Many athletes. Tons of fun if you can find a group of 6 people that you admire to draw with. Based on the 2016 draw statistics (https://rde.stanford.edu/studenthousing/2016-housing-draw-cutoffs-men), ~50% chance of getting in with a group of 6 on tier 2, for males.

Fraternity/Sorority housing — Not much to say on this. To evaluate greek housing focus on evaluating the greek organization itself.

Residence Halls

Toyon — Most similar to being in an all freshman dorm again. Presumably Trancos is similar.

Branner & Crothers — Kind of like a less tight knit/somewhat less social version of Toyon.

Flomo: Similar to Branner & Crothers, with the exception of Mirlo, which is full of girls from the Kappa sorority (Kappa Kappa Mirlo).

Lagunita Court, Potter & Robinson, Murry, East & Yost, and Gerhard Casper Quad (Manzanita), Mirilees: Similar to Branner & Crothers.

Theme houses

Haus Mitt and Slav are pretty influenced by their theme (i.e. many people studying those languages and/or from those areas).

Casa Italiana, French House (French House slightly more themed than the other two), and Storey are more randomly distributed in terms of where people are from.

Co-ops

Co-ops attract a specific crowd, in part due to the fact that students in co-ops are required cook and clean for themselves.

Self-ops

e.g. 680, 717, 1047 (formerly SAE), Durand, etc

No real themes. Mostly determined by the group of people that happen to end up in these houses on that year. Mostly seniors.

680, 1047, and the other houses on the row tend to be somewhat more party-centric than the others. These ones are similar to Casa Italiana and French House, though slightly less party-centric.

Cultural Theme Houses

Similar to Haus Mitt and Slav in that they are pretty influenced by their theme. As with those two, you can know what you’ll be getting from the theme.