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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Super immature of a kid for this to matter much at all.  There are so many things that this should take priority over.  Really odd. [/quote]

Yeah I have to agree. Unless there is a medical condition, in which case you can probably get a single at most schools, this seems like such an odd thing to factor into where you go to school. [/quote]

And perhaps OP's child does have a medical condition that leads them to prefer/require a single.  And many feel that a single within a suite is the best set up because then you have suitemates. I am not OP, but I clicked on the thread because I am interested in suite singles for my child whose medical condition will lead them to request a single.  So instead of calling the child immature, maybe give OP the benefit of the doubt that their child does have a valid reason like a medical condition.[/quote]

This is OP.  Thank you.  I frequent the SN boards and am just recently reading the college forum.  College wasn’t even a thought in our mind a while back when we were researching residential help facilities.  So the fact that our son is taking about college, is doing well and may actually go is a miracle.  He might be at a community college and maybe will be okay with roommates by then. Like all of you, we are researching every possible option for our kid who might need a little extra help.  I didn’t want his prior mental help issues to hijack the conversation.  I’m sure plenty of kids would love a single.

Special thanks to the posters who suggested UWV and Alabama. Those are more of the academic level we are looking at and the residences look really nice.  [/quote]

I think many - maybe all - schools have singles for students whose disabilities require that. My son dated a girl who uses a wheelchair and obviously her dorm situation had to accommodate that.

And lots of schools have *some* singles available to freshmen. The list is probably much smaller if your kid is looking for a guaranteed single and doesn't have a documented disability that will give them priority for an ADA room.[/quote]

I have been silently following this thread, because my kid has a medical condition that might in fact qualify for a first-year single (T1D, *very* loud alarms that go off often and unpredictably — would be frankly unfair to a roommate). But she’s worried she’ll miss something fundamental if she’s living alone while everyone else has a roommate. A suite with a door she could close would solve the alarm issue without making her feel atypically isolated, and if many first-years live like this, she’d feel more fully integrated in student life.

So thank you to the OP for the question, and thanks to all who have offered suggestions. And if this thread doesn’t happen to meet your own family’s particular needs and interests, that’s great…but perhaps you can just move to a different thread rather than clouding up the discussion without fully understanding where some families are coming from.[/quote]

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