As someone who did college only several years ago, I have to chime in on this. > Any dorm built or renevated in the last 10-15 or so years will have semi-priva

As someone who did college only several years ago, I have to chime in on this. > Any dorm built or renevated in the last 10-15 or so years will have semi-private bathrooms. This is true for new construction, but generally speaking older dorm buildings are kept in use and have the exact same experience as ever. Generally the new construction or alternatively designed dorms are more expensive to rent. > The dining options today are way better than what we had. I trudged down to the dorm cafeteria and ate whatever slop they were serving, high school cafeteria style. My son (at a small public university) has what amounts to a mall food court at school, and he can choose from burgers, pizza, wraps, vegetarian, Italian, Mexican, etc. every day. Food court style offerings are common, but like a food court you have to pay for anything offered. Typically corporate food chains try to get their place in the court and will wine and dine school administration for the chance to have a captive audience. The cafeteria style food options are still available and are cheaper (yes this food is really awful slop). Worse is that some universities require purchasing some amount of food ahead of time, whether it be a prepaid card usable anywhere or some kind of meal plan for the cafeteria style dining, milking money out of folks who prefer to live off campus and/or make their own food (esp. if they have special dietary requirements). > The libraries are more functional, the sports facilities are all updated, etc. This is generally true. Equipment is usually fairly modern and there is staff available most of the time.