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<p>Well, they’re probably hoping that the family will just pay it rather than go through the nightmare of a forced triple. I’m surprised they didn’t try to double the price or something.</p>
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<p>That’s what I think! Maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t think there are many freshmen opting for singles. Everyone is hoping to make a new best friend for life, no matter how unrealistic their chances. I was joking around with my H, telling him D got the single because of our high EFC. He didn’t think that was funny. No, my D did not request a single. I just called the university and they said that she must have. Everything was done online, so there’s no proof. If she did do it, it would not have been intentional, as she was really looking forward to a roommate. I put her on the waiting list for a double, but I’m sure there are lots of kids ahead of her, as she’s been out of town for the last 10 days.</p>
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<p>If a room is large enough, I don’t think a triple would be that bad. The fact that you’re joining two friends is a little worrisome. If your dorms aren’t crowded at the beginning of the year, spaces will open up as time goes on. If you don’t like your roommates, you’ll have met kids that you do like, and should have opportunities to move elsewhere.</p>
<p>$1800 more is an awful lot to me. There is less than a $400 difference between a double and single at S’s school for the year. The cost for a double is about $5K for the year, so $1800 is nearly a 40% increase. My son cleared about that working during the school year so it would have wiped out all of those hours. It would have paid for 3 round trips home. I couldn’t let it go. I would talk to the school.</p>
<p>That’s very true, but it’s worth a shot, right? If you tack on a $1800 cost increase to hundred families’ bill, 90% of them might opt out and complain but 10% might go all, “A single? Awesome! I can just leave the door open and friends will just come rushing in!”
And you just made $18,000! It’s not a lot (for a college), but if you have no choice logistically then you might as well give it a try.</p>
<p>I vote
single WITHOUT penalty
not forced triple…</p>
<p>My triple is 21 x 14.5 with an additional 5x7 nook for a bed - does that sound like a good size or will it be cramped? I can’t really visualize it…its ~34- sq ft which supposedly is 2x as big as a double (but some of that is used up by closets)</p>
<p>I think that should be okay. I lived in a 15x20 double last year and I think we could have fit another person in there pretty well.</p>
<p>Actually Gardna, at many schools, singles are coveted and go first. In fact, often freshmen are not even eligible for singles. It appears that there are plenty of people who can afford the additional cost.</p>
<p>not many freshman get them at my school either. Mine was a special request from the DA office :<</p>
<p>I would say opt for the single. When my older d was a freshman, she was in a double on a hall where most were in forced triples. Her friend lucked out with a random single, kept her door open and made many good friends. My younger d was in a forced triple her freshman year in a large room-problem is in coordinating three girls and all the stuff to clean… room was really dusty. In neither case did either of my girls become friends with their freshman year roommates at all and never spoke to any of those girls after they stopped living together-in both cases at different schools, roommate matching is totally random.</p>
<p>My daughter lived in a triple last year…her freshman year. Pretty much the whole freshman dorm was triples (though ‘planned’…everyone knew ahead of time).</p>
<p>It was really no trouble at all. They had three beds, three dressers, three desks and two microfridges and PLENTY of floor space, especially when they decided to bunk two of the beds.</p>
<p>Even un-bunked, the beds could be raised high enough to put the dressers underneath the beds, freeing up lots of floor space and creating significant storage area for suitcases, footlockers, etc. under the beds.</p>
<p>Though my son’s freshman double was nice sized, it would have made for a crowded triple. Also, there were two very nice built in closets that would have to somehow be split among 3, or something stuck in there for the third person. The rooms were so built for two people in layout, that sticking a third in there would have made for an awkward arrangement.</p>
<p>My other son’s quad, on the other hand was enormous. It was like a barrack, and each kid got a walk in type closet. If it weren’t for all of the windows, the room could have easily been split into a single and 3 doubles. There was an alcove, that my son too that really gave him a private area off of the huge room.</p>
<p>OP stated that the triple her D will be placed in will be 16 x 10 - that is by no means big no matter WHAT you do to it! (unless you are placing the beds and desks out in the hallway!)</p>
<p>I don’t understand schools that force triples like that. It seems ridiculous. At my school, study rooms are converted into triples, but those are huge rooms over 2x the size of a regular double. Beds, dressers, and hanging wardrobes are brought in to convert it to a normal room, except it has carpet.</p>
<p>Once that runs out, they stop letting people live on campus.</p>
<p>You’d be lucky to live on campus at all if you apply for housing in March or later. To get the good dorms you have to apply in September or earlier.</p>