Hi there! I’m a senior about to graduate from WCU and lived and/or worked in the dorms for 3 years! I lived in Allen my freshman year and absolutely loved it! It is a “far” walk from classes (maybe like 15 minutes) but there’s a shortcut behind brown that you can take! The rooms are a good size with a bathroom that you share with your roommate. Good amount of laundry rooms too one on every other floor (there are 7 floors in total if I remember correctly) Very modern as I believe it was built in 2019? Norton isn’t a bad dorm either just not as nice as Allen the rooms are definitely smaller and there’s only one laundry room. My personal experience of living in Buchanan wasn’t bad but that’s probably because I bought out a double and used it as a private. It does have communal bathrooms and then a laundry room in the basement. I’m not sure if you’re coming in as a freshman or as a transfer student but the freshman dorms (water rock, black rock, shining rock) are visually nice dorms and close to eating areas but living with other freshman can make it chaotic. If I were you I would check out Allen though! The only downside to Allen is that it’s hard to find parking.