<p>The minimum standard for housing prisoners in the United States is about 75 square feet per prisoner in a dorm room. Some Georgia tech freshmen are being placed in dorm rooms with considerably less space per inmate (sorry, per student). Does this not seem strange given that Tech is charging students over $2,000 per semester to exist under these conditions? Is anone else concernend?</p>
<p>yeah i have got to say that this has really turned me off from going to GT if i get in. i mean i could go to texas a&m and get a slightly less rigorous education and at least be comfortable and save $10,000 a year. i still plan on applying but this is a serious issue that needs to be resolved.</p>
<p>It's definitely a turn off. I've heard about the "GT shaft", and I guess this is the kind of thing they are talking about. I don't think it's fair for students who enrolled early and signed up for a double without even be asked if they would accept a triple, to be subjected to this. These students likely turned down other schools for GT not knowing this would happen. If you are late enrolling, then you should expect the worst in housing at any school. </p>
<p>I would expect GT to use the waitlist more next year to avoid this; thats how other schools get the size class they want.</p>
<p>As long as a school has people pounding down their doors to get in, nothing will change. Why should it? </p>
<p>Every prospective college student SHOULD look at several schools with a critical eye at these types of things. </p>
<p>However, some kids are so sold on a certain institution that they wouldn't care if one of the enrollment requirements was being covered in "poo". </p>
<p>So GT will continue to cover students in "poo" in regards to housing, as long as there's students out there who want to be a yellowjacket.</p>
<p>Well, as a mom of a kid who is thinking about applying OOS to GT I'd discourage him given this situation. I hate triples in double rooms. I think it's a terrible way to start school -- and I know, since it happened to me in 1976 at a SUNY school!</p>