20% of incoming FR going into Triples

Colleges and Universities A-Z Georgia Institute of Technology
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<p><a href="http://www.housing.gatech.edu/assignments/undergraduate_triple.cfm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.housing.gatech.edu/assignments/undergraduate_triple.cfm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>510 incoming FR will be housed in triples which were doubles in the past in Folk, Caldwell and Towers Halls. The incoming class is 2,600, the largest in GT history. Apparently GT has never had to do this [triples] before.</p>

<p>So if it isn't hard enough to move away from home, adapt to going to a new school with people you don't know, take a load of notoriously difficult FR weedout courses, and get along with a roommate you don't know, now GT wants you to sleep on a bunk bed in a cramped room with two roommates.</p>

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<p>thank god for a quad...do triples only have ONE room to share?</p>

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<p>I find it hard to believe that Georgia Tech could be off on their estimate of the size of the class by that much (over 10%). </p>

<p>Triples in double rooms really stink. </p>

<p>They'll end up with unhappy and under-performing freshmen. But with an extra 300 kids paying tuition, maybe they don't care.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I can't see a triple working out... sleeping on a bunk bed is very difficult. They shouldn't even be charged for their room IMO. </p>

<p>It's become fairly common for schools to become over enrolled because of the historic size of the current college-age population.</p>

<p>Apparently these doubles were students who put down their enrollment deposits early as well. It would be more fair if the last students to enroll were put into triples.</p>

<p>Hopefully next year they will plan this better and ask if a student wants a triple for a reduced rate at time of enrollment.</p>

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<p>I got a quad, and my room was LARGE. Seriously. Not crammed at all.</p>