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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^i[b]s it still “a great deal” if you don’t have housing and your classes are crowded and you’re treated like cattle???

Serious question.[/quote][/b]

Aren't you jumping to hyperbolic conclusions? How do we know they won't have housing?  Tech could be bringing in air-conditioned trailers as we speak.  How do we know they will be treated like cattle?  One PP says "a friend of a friend" had to stand in line in dining hall.  Oh the horror!   When we toured we ate at the terrific restaurants that have pizza, sushi, Japanese teppan, etc. etc.  The food is amazing at Tech.  Why don't you wait and see how Tech decides to handle it.[/quote]

Back in the 80's when I attended Tech the food was awful but freshman were required to live on campus and if you wanted to live in a dorm in subsequent years you had the option to do so.  The campus was (and still is) beautiful, the town was fun and the nearby mountains and New River - gorgeous.

The idea of them housing students in trailers parked around the campus is kind of sad.  Might as well turn the drill field into a tent city and the gym a public bath house.

[b]I'm sure that they will figure it out.[/quote][/b]

I'm sure they will figure it out too.  They'll encourage some of the students to take fall semester off and work or take classes abroad.  They will actively cull out the students who played during the last semester of high school and cut them from the class and tell them to reapply.  They will make arrangements with hotels and motels downtown (my SLAC did this).  They will take away housing from the upper class students as GMU had to do when it was oversubscribed.  Students that don't want to be in this situation can ask for a refund of deposit and make other plans or take a year off. 
 Everyone in Higher Ed knows about this so I don't see how a gap year would hurt.  I know for a fact they are hiring more faculty.  It's a huge school so they will accommodate by offering more intro classes.  You do know that VT is rated for no. 1 food in American colleges and universities?  And I would mind a bit being in a nice A/C trailer - Tech's dorm rooms are tiny.  Parents of children who are actually affected by this should be talking to the admissions office and Housing.  There is a lot of discussion going on on College Confidential.[/quote]

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