<p>Are there many freshmen triples still in existence?</p>
<p>Has anyone hear anything about next years freshmen's class? Still expected to overenroll and be back into overcrowded housing again? How does overenrollment effect getting the classes you need?</p>
<p>What are sophs doing for housing next year? Any required number of sophs which must triple?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Tripling happens at every college but it was more widespread at Bing this year. No colleges know what their new housing situation will be like until after May 1st. It all depends on how many accept admission offers. Not too sure about the classes, but generally the larger school one attends the larger the classes are until junior or senior year.</p>
<p>MOre info from someone please.</p>
<p>Yes, triples happen everywhere but not to the extent Bing had this year due to the surprise over enrollment. Wonder if they'll reduce acceptances because of this.</p>
<p>The number of triples in two person dorm rooms was extensive. Don't know how 3 can share 2 dressers and two desks. Not fun, I'm sure. Other schools continue to make triples (or even more) out of suites which are pretty good, although you are right that there are and have been many tripling in doubles for years at lots of schools. St. Joes in Philly did not triple in double rooms but leased 2 floors in a nearby hotel. I guess there are options but not always good ones.</p>
<p>Yes, most schools have large classes, especially popular or mandatory courses. Not all though. Son at private school with 10K students has had small student classes for him at least, easy to get in if closed out, and no triples on campus at all. </p>
<p>Back to my question- How many students remain tripled. What will happen next year as they will likely over enroll freshman again (due to the economy) and have the large number of then sophs to deal with also.</p>
<p>Son #2 is quite interested in Bing (among other great fit schools for him) so these questions are important to us.</p>
<p>this current year was an aberration. you simply cannot predict anything with respect to what will happen next year at this point. until some admissions stats start coming in, everything is speculative for next year.</p>
<p>their applications are way up this year. they plan to keep enrollment level -- that should mean it'll get harder to get into binghamton. Binghamton</a> University Pipe Dream | Money crunch brings more applicants to Binghamton</p>
<p>but will the admissions office be able to properly predict just how the economy will effect their yield this spring? will they be able to keep enrollment to the point where triples will exist only at the relatively lower numbers they have in the past? who knows? they didn't plan to have the number of freshman they had this year. maybe they'll get closer to the number they want next year, maybe not -- until those acceptance letters and offers of financial aid come from the private schools, i bet a lot of suny applicants can't even say for sure themselves right now how high on their list their suny choices are.</p>
<p>is there a risk with the economy that this may happen again? sure. is there also a risk that binghamton will become way harder to get into and that many students who might have gotten in last year won't this year? i'd be willing to bet that's that case, but until numbers start coming out, we just don't know. enrollment management is difficult enough when there aren't all the new factors thrown in that the admissions office has to deal with this year. </p>
<p>as for the rest of this year, they expect there to be triples thru the spring semester. there are new freshmen who were admitted for the spring who are due to arrive. there just aren't enough people leaving the dorms in the spring to make detripling everyone possible. i have heard that there were some people offered the chance to detriple who turned that opportunity down.</p>
<p>it is too early to be talking about sophomore housing for next year. nothing has been said yet about sign ups for fall 2009 for current students.</p>
<p>binghamton is a suny. no one knows yet how state budget cuts will affect things for next year. i also know a lot of private colleges are being hit with budget problems as well. i think there will be a lot of school where you just aren't going to be able to be sure about what things will be like next year as they grapple with the economy. will private schools offer as much aid? will they cut back course offerings due to budget constraints? will suny's be way over enrolled? will courses be harder to get in to? all good questions - but not ones i think you can expect answer to at this time.</p>
<p>"all good questions - but not ones i think you can expect answer to at this time."</p>
<p>I could not agree more.</p>
<p>Crazed- You are not going to get solid answers to your questions- everyone, including myself want to know the same things you do. It's just too early to tell.</p>