Also, while I very much like Machon Meir, they do not allow people converting to stay in the dorms.
Which I find utterly reprehensible. The Mahari Perlow in his perush on R’ Saadia Gaon’s Sefer haMitzvot says that the mitzvah to love the ger is part of the mitzvah to love G-d and adds that the mitzvah to love the ger begins when a gentile first comes to us to learn about Judaism and Mitzvot, and does not just begin once the ger emerges from the mikvah.