<p>I have read a few times about “De-Tripled” for freshman. Does that mean as the semester goes on enough students leave that there is enough room to change triples to doubles?</p>
<p>Why do so many leave?</p>
<p>How is the person that has to move decided?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Dorm assignments are made before the beginning of the term. A few students do decide to leave, but the majority of tripling is due to the fact that many students send in deposits for admission and housing unable to come to a final decision and then decide on another school. There have been reports of rooms with none or one student while others are tripled. It takes a while for all this to get straighten out once school begins.
It’s been my experience that there is usually someone who volunteers or wants to move out, not necessarily because they don’t get along, but for reasons of needing more space and privacy. My S was one of those, but decided to stay tripled. It doesn’t seem to be as traumatic, from what I’ve read, as you might think.
Hope this helps</p>
<p>The “detripling” process described by hello5 occurs at many schools. Because the AU triples involve one upper bunk bed, it’s not surprising that many are happy to work out a way to detriple. One of D’s roommates was anxious to leave because the room that became available was in a building where she had a close friend, so the remaining two roomies obliged her without incident.</p>
<p>A lot of the initial tripling was due to the fact that some upperclassmen had reservations to live in the dorms, but then decided to move into nearby apartment complexes instead. For example, students are being requested to indicate if they want to live in the dorms next year right now. Yet many students do not really make their final plans about who to live with and where for quite a while.</p>
<p>My son was one of the lucky ones who was not tripled. But he is very good friends with the 3 boys in the tripled room next door–they were offered a chance to detriple and chose not to because they were having too much fun. Some girls in a triple down the hall chose to detriple when the opportunity arose-- another student on the hall left school to go home when her mother was diagnosed with an aggressive terminal cancer, and one of the three moved in with the remaining roommate–but all of the girls involved were friends already. The girl who went home hopes to come back next year–the kids on the floor have remained in conatact with her and she came up for a weekend before finals.</p>
<p>I think the parents make a bigger deal of the tripling than the kids do.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the replies, and so quick.</p>
<p>That makes a lot of sense, I had not thought about upperclassmen, etc.</p>