Very good amenities and friendly staff. Management is a pain to deal with but you don't have to interact its them that often. Maintenance guys and the cab stand in front of the building are a plus.

Great building- wonderful staff, great location, lots of amenities. Apartment = newly renovated, and well-priced.

Building is good and location is excellent - offers a small gym for $15 a month and a rooftop pool (only free on Monday - Thursday in the summer). Laundry facilities are in the basement, although I hear some people have it in their apartments. The building is condos, not apartments, so each apartment looks different and is managed differently. I've struggled my with condo owner to have things fixed so I'm not the biggest fan of this model - example: smoke from neighbors apartments comes through my vents and they won't do anything about it. Do your due diligence on the owner of the condo before determining if the apartment is good.

Great location (close to Wharton social events) - Taxi stop at the door - Seven Eleven behind the building (great for urgent grocery shopping) - Many Whaton students live in the building - Cheap GYM ($15month) - Pool open in the summer months

I live in a recently renovated deluxe one bedroom in The Dorchester. It is a fantastic apartment in a great location. The Dorchester is a very nice building with a courteous staff and a pool on the roof. The one thing to note with this building is that quality varies substantially from unit to unit, since it is a condo building.

The building is nice, featuring a marble-paved foyer with a garden and doorman. The gym is very shabby, and dorchester requires you to pay for it. Internet is subsidized by the building to a rate of $20month. Units vary dramatically, as each may be owned by a different owner. Ours is very boring, with off-white carpeting and white walls, lacking an open floorplan. Most units feature hardwood floors. Utilities were included in our lease. Dorchester management is almost impossible to work with, and they set strict rules that make people's lives miserable. The loading dock entrance cannot be used after 6pm on weekdays and not at all on Sunday. At the same time, no furniture may be moved through the front entrance, so furnishing your apartment piecemeal is a very frustrating process. The biggest drawbacks relative to places like 1500 Locust is that there are no common rooms in the Dorchester and therefore no places to have study group meetings or get-togethers.

The Dorchester is a really good option - a lot of space and best location in center city

I really like the location of my building and I enjoy the fact that a number of Wharton students live here but I have my own privacy since it's not completely filled with Wharton students. The apartments tend to be pretty small and units differ quite a bit. I also think the rent is pretty high for the space you're getting but compared to new york the rent seems just fine.