<p>I got an e-mail from my school that said singles are 2615 per semester and doubles are 1950/semester</p>
<p>You seriously dont know why? Thats sad, its so obvious, people want privacy.</p>
<p>Not to mention it's cheaper for the school to actually stick more than one person in a room. So the less people in a room the more expensive it will most likely be.</p>
<p>i hope i get a triple this year (not necessarily for a price cut, but because it would just be awesome!!! it's bigger, there is another person, which = party time!)</p>
<p>supposedly my school sticks freshman in triples quite often...i hope i get lucky.</p>
<p>actually, at my school all room sizes are the same price...</p>
<p>How is that Possible, the Singles must be really hard to get</p>
<p>Supply and demand. Demand for singles is high but the supply of singles is low.</p>
<p>The logic is simple. Two people can stay in a room. If rent is 6,500 dollars then by having only one person live in a room you lose a potential additional 6,500 dollars. So, the cost of the single must be high enough so that the dorm does not lose that potential 6,500 (at my dorm a single is double the cost of rent for a double room). At your school I know this exactly the case, however it's still more expensive because that room could have housed another student and given the dorm more money, they've got to make up for it some how.</p>
<p>dcfca - did u get my PM I sent u yesterday?</p>
<p>you are lucky you only have to pay 2615 a semester for a single. i have to pay 3100 for a double. stop your *****ing.</p>
<p>I'm in a triple and have to pay $4058 but we get our own bathroom :). each floor in my building has two triples and the rest are doubles. i randomly got a triple and i'm glad. its a bit more but theres only three of us usin the bathroom instead of the whole floor sharing community bathrooms like the doubles have to do.</p>
<p>Id rather have a community bathroom. They cool.</p>
<p>are you guys paying that much per semester or year? I have to pay 3400 per yr, 1700 per semester. That's for a double. If you're in a double but you are the only one living there (like if your roommate moves out) you have to pay 1 1/2 times the price of the double to live there by yourself (to guarantee they won't stick anyone else in with you, if you don't care, they don't charge you and you might get lucky and have a room to yourself without having to pay for it). For a single (which is smaller) it's like 400 dollars more or something.</p>
<p>oh, and all those rooms get a personal bathroom to be shared with the room next door (it's between the two rooms). Sometimes you can get singles with a bathroom to itself, but I think those might only be for the disabled.</p>
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<p>Now, assuming that both the single occupancy room and double occupancy room are roughly the same size... the school is actually using a little marketing game here to increase its revenue. The price for a student to live by themselves is not double the price for a student to have a roommate, so the school makes more money when they can get two students into the same room... even though, from the student's perspective, it's cheaper. The school would prefer having two to a room so they can make more money, and they use a marginal difference to entice students who want to save money on their living expenses while in college. Schools are master marketers</p>
<p>"How is that Possible, the Singles must be really hard to get"</p>
<p>Actually no, my school is known for being a party school so actually the triples and the bigger doubles are the most coveted. Very few people request singles.</p>
<p>Also, it seems everybody is making the assumption that singles and doubles are the same size. Im not sure about all schools but at every school I visited this was not the case. In fact, the dorm room I will be in next year is one of the larger doubles and it is much larger than a single... in fact, even when you calculate square footage per person the singles still dont compare.</p>
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dcfca - did u get my PM I sent u yesterday?
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<p>Yo. Your PMs are full.</p>
<p>UT:</p>
<p>From High School: Get top 5% class rank and your in. Out of state you'll want some solid rank and good test score, write a good essay too.</p>
<p>Internal Transfer: Get about a 3.6 GPA and you're good. Get at maximum 2 B's, do some great EC's, write great essays and you'll have a shot at the business honors program.</p>
<p>Ok I'll clean it out.</p>
<p>not to mention they can get twice as much money for a double, and for only a little less space they can only get one person to pay, so they charge more.</p>