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[quote=Anonymous]Regardless of whether your daughter has "good" or "bad" reasons for choosing to preference a school that can guarantee singles over a school that cannot, or whether she "shouldn't have to" put up with it or it is a "rite of passage," the one thing that is indisputably clear is that if this is really important to her and you don't have a budgetary or other constraint that prevents it, then SHE should be the one to thoroughly research this on her own without a parent doing it (other than reminding her she may want to look into it), and she can base her decision on it like thousands of other big and little/rational or irrational things that cause a kid to choose one school over another.

If she doesn't do the research or she ends up deciding it isn't critical in her college selection and she's unhappy about that afterward, she should be the one who investigates how to change rooms or fix it later with the Housing Office (or leave with it to the end of the semester).  Those are the life skills she needs to learn more than rooming with someone else.

And if that pains you too much to think that she could end up being unhappy because she didn't do that work before or after the decision, then that's kind of the definition of being a helicopter parent.  It's OK to remind your kid once and then let them figure it out one way or the other.[/quote]

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