<p>The safety of your college in general is going to matter a lot more than whether you’re in a single or a double dorm. I don’t think this is really that important to fret over.</p>
<p>Also, if you’re actually concerned about safety in terms of being hurt or going missing, your friends and/or a family member will probably be more reliable than a roommate (perhaps giving someone numbers to call if they don’t hear from you in x amount of time or if you stop answering your friends’ calls/texts), unless you’re close to your roommate. I’ve roomed with friends, and we would generally check in on each other if someone didn’t come home when we were expecting them to. But I’ve had other roommates who I wasn’t particularly close with, and they’d be gone for days at a time and I never thought anything of it. I’d leave for days without telling my roommate, and they wouldn’t check up on me. It really just depends on the relationship you have with your roommate and what kind of person they are. If you’re thinking of it more from the point of view of it being comforting for someone to be around, then that’s fine, but I wouldn’t get a double room for solely that reason, if you actually want a single. It would be much better to just make sure you’re plugged into the community–with your neighbors/other students in your dorm/your RA, with clubs, with friends, with work, with classes, etc, so that people will notice if something is wrong.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t base your housing decision based on something like this. I think if you’re worried about safety, you should spend more time looking into the safety of the school and surrounding area and ways to keep yourself safe in different situations than whether or not you have a roommate. But if you don’t care if you live in a single or a double, then you might as well get a double if you find it more comforting.</p>