Old Campus housing assignments to rotate for first years in fall 2025
To accommodate a larger incoming class, Yale reassigned residential colleges to the Old Campus halls that best fit their first year class sizes.

Yale Daily News
This fall, Old Campus will look a little different as residential colleges rotate their designated halls.
A message sent to applicants for first-year counselors, or FroCos, revealed that starting in fall 2025, the housing assignments will undergo a shift, with Old Campus dormitories for residential colleges being reassigned.
Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis and Associate Dean of Residential College Life Ferentz Lafargue confirmed these changes, adding that the recent announcement of Yale’s expanded class of 2029 motivated the housing rotation. Lafargue explained that this new configuration would minimize unused space on Old Campus.
“With the plans to expand the class size, announced today by Dean Lewis and Provost Strobel, it’s important to use the Old Campus spaces more efficiently,” Lafargue wrote to the News. “The new assignments bring the first-year and upper-level capacities of each college into closer alignment, easing pressures on housing within each residential college.”
Lafargue said that many different administrators, including residential college heads and deans, worked to plan this transition. Lewis mentioned that similar rotations have occurred in the past and described this configuration as “the most efficient allocation we could come up with.”
In addition to first years, FroCos live on Old Campus in the dorm allocated for their residential college. Juniors who applied for the FroCo position this year will live in a different dorm than their first year assignment.
Lafargue said that the administration will ensure incoming FroCos can visit their future rooms and “learn from the current FroCos inhabiting them.” Regardless of the change, he had already planned to add a training section about Old Campus facilities for FroCos.
In some cases, students will find themselves in possibly worse living situations than they expected. Davenporters, for instance, would have expected to live in Welch, a dorm famous for the “Princess Suites,” spacious two-level suites with internal staircases. Now, Davenport students will reside in Lannam-Wright, or L-Dub, a dorm infamous for its cramped rooms and insect presence.
“I loved living in Welch as a freshman and feel like it is such a quintessential part of the Davenport experience, so it will be strange to be potentially living in LW next year as a Davenport FroCo,” said Mason Abrell ’26, who applied to be a Davenport FroCo.
Lewis also explained that the change will come with a revival of renovations for certain residential colleges, with the first two being Berkeley and Jonathan Edwards.
Last year, Yale conducted fire safety and accessibility renovations and replacements for fire safety. Upcoming renovations will include beautification and adding water filling stations in each entryway, according to Lewis.
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