Horrible dorm assignment!

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Anonymous wrote:That's why kids who pick schools that have nice dorms, good food, great amenities etc have a much better college experience than kids who pick schools based on the academics.

People laugh at High Point but it is like living in a Four Seasons hotel.

Umm my kids picked their schools for their academic offerings. They certainly weren’t picking based on dorms. One ended up in a crappy one and was fine with it.

How did they pick off of "academic offerings." Most of the things my department offers to students is inaccessible if you don't have a college email and tours do not go through our labs. Applicants hardly know anything about what we offer.

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That’s weird. There is usually high demand for single rooms and lots of folks who didn’t want roommates getting them. Not vice versa.

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Depending on where in socal, a/c may not be a necessity. It's not humid, so even if it's hot it doesn't feel particularly bad. It's not like having no a/c in the southeast.

When I grew up out there, none of the houses had central air. I knew a few people with swamp coolers, but really all you needed was a fan. And a basement will be even cooler.

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Anonymous wrote:People lived without air conditioning for thousands of years. Your snowflake will survive.

Studies done *on college students* show that sleeping in temperatures that are too warm cause lower math scores on tests. Authors compared math scores from students in dorms with A/C and dorms without.

So this is academically important. A/C is not a frivolous demand these days.

These days as opposed to other days?

Most of the Ivy League schools do not have air conditioning in their dorms. I doubt their math scores have gone down.

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Anonymous wrote:People lived without air conditioning for thousands of years. Your snowflake will survive.

Studies done *on college students* show that sleeping in temperatures that are too warm cause lower math scores on tests. Authors compared math scores from students in dorms with A/C and dorms without.

So this is academically important. A/C is not a frivolous demand these days.

Omg
Never change, DCUM.

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Anonymous wrote:I hear you. My very quiet kid has been assigned to a triple. He had read that his college has a lengthy questionnaire for incoming freshmen to match roommates and assign people to hall sections, including a free response essay about interests and the opportunity to request a single. But when the housing form came out this year, it asked exactly two questions: one about sleeping habits and another about visitors. Then it took until near the end of July for the college to even tell him where he's living. Not sure how random assignments took that long. He's not happy, not excited, and not optimistic. I am starting to regret the horror stories I've told him over the years about my own experience in a freshman year triple. Not good.

Did you agree to pay for a double? I'm curious if colleges honor requests if you ask for double or single and are willing to pay the higher rate.

Many colleges don't have different pay rates. I pay the same for my junior's single studio-like housing with its own kitchen and bathroom as when she was a freshman in a triple dorm that can only be described as a halfway house.

Interesting. DC's school charges much more for a single than for a double/triple.

It's pretty typical for private colleges to have a flat rate if they know students won't be choosing to live off campus. Some colleges have 90%+ students living on campus.

That was my school. Some freshman got suites with enormous common rooms complete with fireplaces. Others got triples

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My advice to DC is to keep grades up so transfer might be possible.

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Advice: find out process for requesting accommodations. Get doctors note if needed to justify AC based on asthma or whatever. Submit for room change.

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Anonymous wrote:My advice to DC is to keep grades up so transfer might be possible.

What a ridiculous reason to transfer omg

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Anonymous wrote:I hear you. My very quiet kid has been assigned to a triple. He had read that his college has a lengthy questionnaire for incoming freshmen to match roommates and assign people to hall sections, including a free response essay about interests and the opportunity to request a single. But when the housing form came out this year, it asked exactly two questions: one about sleeping habits and another about visitors. Then it took until near the end of July for the college to even tell him where he's living. Not sure how random assignments took that long. He's not happy, not excited, and not optimistic. I am starting to regret the horror stories I've told him over the years about my own experience in a freshman year triple. Not good.

Did you agree to pay for a double? I'm curious if colleges honor requests if you ask for double or single and are willing to pay the higher rate.

Many colleges don't have different pay rates. I pay the same for my junior's single studio-like housing with its own kitchen and bathroom as when she was a freshman in a triple dorm that can only be described as a halfway house.

Interesting. DC's school charges much more for a single than for a double/triple.

It's pretty typical for private colleges to have a flat rate if they know students won't be choosing to live off campus. Some colleges have 90%+ students living on campus.

That was my school. Some freshman got suites with enormous common rooms complete with fireplaces. Others got triples

I got a double in a Honors Dorm at PSU. Then they put all the late registrants in our study lounge and most annoying, into vacant suites for elite grad students and visiting profs that had a delayed remodel project. So instead of idling the rooms, Housing filled them with the dregs of the housing waitlist. These boys were actually s--- disturbers and prone to prankish vandalism. So I had to pay extra at the end of the year for "common area damage".

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Anonymous wrote:Advice: find out process for requesting accommodations. Get doctors note if needed to justify AC based on asthma or whatever. Submit for room change.

I think a housing accommodation is what it is going to take for any substantive change.

I’m just so disappointed in DC for not filing the housing change request right away-I would have never accepted such a raw deal without a fight.

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Back in my day we were all desperate for singles. I spent an irritating amount of time trying to clear my roommate out so I could have sex with my girlfriend.

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Anonymous wrote:Advice: find out process for requesting accommodations. Get doctors note if needed to justify AC based on asthma or whatever. Submit for room change.

I think a housing accommodation is what it is going to take for any substantive change.

I’m just so disappointed in DC for not filing the housing change request right away-I would have never accepted such a raw deal without a fight.

A single as a freshman is a pretty amazing position to be in. Nothing raw about this deal.

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OP would wallow if they gave the boy a king suite with a King bed with a balcony, so melodramatic. Most people your kid meets would die to be in this position.

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^^^Sure-if they don’t value any natural light and don’t mind sweating like a pig it’s an amazing situation.

You people have no understanding whatsoever.