The Freshman Quad consists of two residence halls: Williams and Sage. Half of the first-year class lives here, while the rest of the class lives down the hill in Mission Park.
First-year students live together in groups of 20 or so with a pair of Junior Advisors (JAs), in a thoughtfully constructed microcosm of the Williams community known as an Entry. The Entry system is a defining part of the Williams experience. There is no special-interest housing at Williams (and we eliminated fraternities about 50 years ago).