<p>Is killing me!</p>
<p>My school let in way too many first years, and tripled us all up in rooms, and basically the dorms are sooo crowded we have to sit on the floor of the common room to eat dinner, etc.</p>
<p>Does anyone else have this problem? How are you dealing with it?</p>
<p>Is the school we are talking in particular here happens to be UCSD - Muir College?</p>
<p>In addition, if it's too crowded to eat in the common room then would eating in the dining commons be a more sensible choice?</p>
<p>I know it happens all the time, but I'm still surprised schools can get away with charging families full room and board for substandard living conditions. The fire code must not specify that only two people are to live in a room meant for two people??</p>
<p>CARO - this is a very common problem at many schools - usually things start to thin out after 1st or 2nd semester. Being in a forced triple can certainly be a life learning experience - hang in there - it should get better.</p>
<p>There are occassions where kids don't return to school and some moving around can happen - is that a possibility.</p>
<p>In many cases the charge for a forced trip in a double is compensated for by lowering the costs for all involved.</p>
<p>Wasn't it Penn State that is housing freshmen in the common rooms/lounges of the dorms because they overenrolled last year? Sorry if I got the wrong school, but THAT sounds like a nightmare for both the housing dept and the students--neither control how many students get admitted. </p>
<p>But I agree--things should get better with time :)</p>
<p>The UMASS system if famous for doing this also.</p>
<p>My room barely accomodates all of my and my roommate's crap. I cant even imagine how we could ever fit a 3rd.</p>
<p>Last semester, my school took some of the on campus apartments' efficiency rooms, which are meant for one person, and put two people in them, and also put non-honors and non-international students in the honors and international dorms. A lot of people moved off campus for the new semester, though, so I don't think we have those problems anymore. And while there's a new dorm opening next year, they're also closing and tearing down one of the old dorms. And the new dorm may not be open by the time fall move-in happens, in which case, we will be staying in hotels. That will be interesting...</p>
<p>My college has a system to prevent this. They know exactly how many doubles, singles, apts etc. they have. You have to apply early as hell to get a spot in housing. Once it's full, it's full. There can be a waiting list because sometimes people may decide not to go here but it's not guranteed at all. If you don't get in, you're just out of luck for on-campus housing. There are plenty of apts around campus that are very close though, so it's not that big a deal. Some are cheaper than on-campus housing.</p>
<p>Is that UCLA? Yeah you basically have to eat at opening time or closing time, or else you risk not having a seat.</p>
<p>They have a huge crowding problem at my school right now because one of the dorms got flooded and some of the rooms are ruined. Those who didn't go back home for a while moved in with other kids or are living with other kids at their homes for a few weeks.</p>
<p>I'm not really sure what the circumstances are because I live off campus here but I know that under normal conditions 2 is the only number they let in the dorms at my school.</p>
<p>My S got tripled in a double as a freshman. It was miserable. He kept his ears open, though, and one day in a language class they announced that their French dorm had midyear openings. While they usually wait til sophomore year, they'd consider a freshman. Language dorm kids leave because they go overseas for junior year or second-term jr. year.
He beat it over there and got the spot, in a double with a sophomore. By soph year, he got a single in that same French house, since he was on-the-scene at year's end.
So stay alert, or inquire...maybe something like that will come available midyear.</p>
<p>its not the college's fault, they never know how many kids will actually choose to go there number accepted vs number enrolled.</p>
<p>Doesn't that create some type of fire hazard? To pile that many people on each other?</p>
<p>I'm thinking not only fire hazard but also medical hazard. I know for a fact that there is strep throat going around my campus. Having kids piled high and deep in dorms breathing down each other's throat will only spread that.</p>
<p>For the folks who are far from home, this isn't good. Sure, there's a hospital down the street (where my ENT practices, in fact), but what are the odds of these kids having their insurance cards with them? Some plans don't need a PCP so they can see any doc they want, but others need one and these kids may either not be able to get to see a doc or have to pay a huge copay. And those without cars have to get there somehow.</p>
<p>I know we don't have a medical center on our campus. I think it's because our place is tiny. Don't think the hospital has anything to do with it--I've seen lots of schools with hospitals less than a mile away that have medical centers.</p>
<p>"its not the college's fault, they never know how many kids will actually choose to go there number accepted vs number enrolled."</p>
<p>Oh, so it is the fault of the student?
I know people that got stuck in forced triples. It is NOT their fault.</p>
<p>Haha yeah this is UCSD, but sixth college.
I am just amazed at HOW MUCH they underestimated.
We have 30 girls sharing a bathroom meant for 18 :(</p>
<p>My thought here is that the school doesn't underestimate the amount of students they will have but instead underestimates the number of residential students.</p>
<p>I go to a small school where a lot of people commute. We are faced with the constant dillemma of which will be overcrowded--the parking lot or the dorms. If it's the parking lot, the problem is really the people who park illegally--there are more than enough spaces if you count the ones at the gym. If it's the dorms, let's just say it's easier to put in some gravel and make a few more parking spaces. That happened last year--some grass patches were taken out for about a dozen new spaces.</p>
<p>I'm not sure how many commuters are at all of your schools, but this is just a thought about the college and the number expected vs. number there.</p>
<p>I think it's an issue of MONEY. I wouldn't pay a couple thousand dollars just to be piled on top of a bunch of other dudes with little space and no privacy. Hell no.</p>
<p>a couple thousand... how about 11,000</p>