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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Meh -- our kid's parent FB page had a question from the parent of a first-year about whether to buy the college health insurance.  Several folks responded (answer was "no", BTW).  Seems like a pretty reasonable question and helpful answers.  I mean, nobody's forcing you to look at it.  [/quote]

Plenty of the questions are reasonable, that's why I joined and stay on my kid's FB parents pages.  But at least 40-60% are hilarious and helicopter parents.  The above is an example of such.  Or parents complaining that their kid's dorm doesn't have AC when only 30% of the dorms have AC and it's not needed past the first 2-3 weeks of the year and normally not needed in May (picked my kid up in May and it was 50-60 degrees most years). [b]It's almost as if they did no research at all on the university housing.[/b]  [/quote]

"How can my daughter get a single room with a private bathroom as a freshman?"

I don't understand where these people went to college that they think some things are possible. [/quote]

A single with its own bathroom is beneficial to students who have certain conditions (such as Crohn's disease). [/quote]

Obviously!  And most schools save those rooms for students with medical conditions.   This post is about how ridiculous parents are that go into the process expecting their snowflake to get this.  Single room with private bathroom is NOT common accommodations for freshman at majority of universities.  Most kids end up in doubles/triples with communal bathrooms.  It's just how college works.  Yet many parents seem unaware of that
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