<p>Daughter finally got detripled to a large double. Said this new floor is quiet, unlike the other dorm floor which we found out had a sofa in the middle of the hall, where the rowdy kids hung out all night. Her new roommate is quiet, thank goodness, actually studies, and the floor is very clean and quiet. Shame a month was wasted.</p>
<p>I am sitting in a triple right now, waiting for that exact situation to happen to me. Glad she got to move out! I just hope we get a good offer…</p>
<p>Be sure to request your monetary discount for suffering through a triple, but paying for a double…residential life first, then bursars office.</p>
<p>Can someone tell me more about this detripling. This is a set up for a lot of unhappy feelings unless all three kids dislike each other or one is desperate to leave.</p>
<p>Apparently they can decline detripling and stay together–several have posted about doing this when they were happy with their situation. It also saves some money. When my D was detripled, one of the three was very eager to leave for a room on the same floor/in the same building as a close friend, so it went easily. (I had pushed D to jump at the chance to go, for a variety of reasons, but she hesitated, and lost her chance.) Given how crowded a triple is, and the fact that one of the three is stuck in an upper bunk, I suspect there’s frequently one or more who happily volunteers to go. (Though the boys seem to mind the crowding a lot less–not surprising, since they usually have fewer possessions.)</p>
<p>I agree with MommaJ. It doesn’t seem to be as traumatic as it sounds. (at least from the posts on this site). There is usually a student who will volunteer to leave for various reasons, not necessarily that the roomies don’t get along. My son was tripled, considered leaving just to have more space and privacy, but it the end decided to stay. His 1 roomate is probably his closest friend and the other is right behind him.
I wouldn’t worry about it and the sooner you send in your deposit, the less likely you’ll be tripled in the first place.</p>
<p>PS My son loves his upper bunk. He feels it gives him more privacy.</p>
<p>Those who are accepted ED generally don’t get tripled…because housing is assigned in the order of housing deposits being received, and ED students generally have their deposits in during January…long before other students are notified.</p>
<p>Several of my S’s friends are in triples…and he said all but one group decided to stay together when given the chance to detriple, and that one remained on the floor, and moved in with another person who was in the group of friends anyway–that person’s roomie went home when her mother suffered a relapse of cancer and became very ill very quickly. Other than the crowding/privacy problems, the tripling doesn’t seem to have been too bad, most students in triples make ample use of the social and study lounges, the library is only a couple of hundred yards away, and there is a huge computer lab in the basement.</p>
<p>D detripled this week for next semester…</p>