Horrible dorm assignment!

[Anonymous]

Your kid got a single and you are complaining?! DC can swap that with 100 kids in a hot (ha ha) second when they get to school.

[Anonymous]

I doubt anyone is going to want a single that badly that they will agree to a hot corner basement room!!

[Anonymous]

At least your kid gets a room. When my oldest arrived at an ivy several years ago, his dorm was a common room with barracks-style bunks.

Luckily the university was able to get the 12 students out of that terrible living condition and into a traditional dorm within a few weeks, but it was a terrible start to his college career.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I doubt anyone is going to want a single that badly that they will agree to a hot corner basement room!!

You're wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At least your kid gets a room. When my oldest arrived at an ivy several years ago, his dorm was a common room with barracks-style bunks.

Luckily the university was able to get the 12 students out of that terrible living condition and into a traditional dorm within a few weeks, but it was a terrible start to his college career.

Please share the name of the Ivy League schools so that we can better understand the situation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I doubt anyone is going to want a single that badly that they will agree to a hot corner basement room!!

It's not going to be a hot corner room.

Also - corner is a great location to be close to more rooms and a place everyone needs to pass by. Much better than at the end of the hall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At least your kid gets a room. When my oldest arrived at an ivy several years ago, his dorm was a common room with barracks-style bunks.

Luckily the university was able to get the 12 students out of that terrible living condition and into a traditional dorm within a few weeks, but it was a terrible start to his college career.

Wow - that is a hard start.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP you really need to say whether this college is within a five miles of the coast. No AC then is doable. If it is in Pomona, no way would I want my kid to suffer in Inland Empire Heat in August/ September/October without AC. That is just cruel.

This year dorm move in is August 17. Last year starting with August 17 the temperature in Pomona was 93 degrees. From August 28th and 29th the temperature was 99 degrees.

You're conveniently ignoring the 70 degree lows at night. It's the desert. You know where students spend their day? Anywhere but the dorm.

When it is 99 degrees for the high and 70 degrees for the low, the low happens right before dawn at 6 in the morning. It is still in the 80's in the late evenings until 9 or 10 at night. Students sometimes go back to their dorms after lunch then go back to campus. It is miserable to be hot and sweaty then take a shower to freshen up then start sweating again as you are getting dressed. No air conditioning in a basement room in a single seems miserable.

Pomona forecast for today, 10 pm is 75 degrees. That's not a humid 75. There is a massive difference between dry heat and east coast humidity.

I wonder if OP has visited.

[Anonymous]

Still wondering why OP thinks a basement room in SoCal is going to be hot at night...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I doubt anyone is going to want a single that badly that they will agree to a hot corner basement room!!

A double (or triple) upper floor w/o ac is worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I doubt anyone is going to want a single that badly that they will agree to a hot corner basement room!!

It's unlikely that this room is the only one without AC in the building, so there are kids in doubles and maybe triples on hotter upper floors.

I am kind of amazed that schools have singles going to freshmen in the regular housing lottery these days. I know so many more kids who have requested singles due to more kids with ASD, anxiety, and medical issues going to college, that I think many schools are struggling to meet the need.

[Anonymous]

I'll also point out that corner room is fantastic because you only have 1/2 the noise from neighbors. Surely OP's not complaining about that too?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Still wondering why OP thinks a basement room in SoCal is going to be hot at night...

I think they haven't spent time there.

I get cold almost every day in SoCal when it has been hot and the sun goes down. 70's without humidity is chilly - especially if the daytime was hot and I have hot weather clothing on. There are "layers" I need for my time in CA that I never use in DC.

[Anonymous]

Just start planning. Buy a portable chiller for the room.

[Anonymous]

And, count your blessings on a single room. No arguments. No differing schedules with tip toeing around while other sleeps. Quietness to study. No one eats all of your snacks.