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[quote=Anonymous]And once she gets to college, how do you keep her from blowing off the roommate she doesn’t know and resents being paired with and spending 16 hours a day with her BFF?

I get the concern.  It would concern me too. But college is the time when you get to express your concern, if you feel strongly, and then have to back off and let your kid make the decision and live with the consequences (asterisks: unless her health or safety is in danger). And not say I told you so.

And the fact is, you don’t know. Back in the Stone Age when colleges randomly threw people together and you got what you got, I was a quiet, neat, introverted nerd who went to be at midnight and I got paired with the loudest, messiest person I had ever met who loved deafness inducing rap music, was up all night  and went to bed for the day after her morning classes.  Match made in hell. Maybe I got something out of the experience. But I doubt it.

Fact is, maybe your DD rooms with her BFF and regrets it. So maybe she tries someone new and ends up with a roommate from hell and spends the year resenting you. Ultimately, her decision, her consequences.

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