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I'm a foreigner who has never had to live in a dorm (students either commute from home or rent apartments), and I do not encourage my kids to apply somewhere with a high risk of getting a tiny dysfunctional space. My oldest just moved into a nice single at GW... the doubles are a bit cramped, but the dorms are overall on the nicer side - renovated, A/C, amenities, etc. I am NOT paying these American prices for my kids to get poor quality sleep for 4 years. Comfort matters. And we live in a tiny, old house! But it's still comfortable and well laid-out.

I entirely reject the notion that discomfort is "part of the college experience". Not at those prices. 
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NP. I think you and OP both mistake simplicity and lack of frills for "discomfort." Other than AC, which is rapidly becoming a health necessity in most of the U.S., there is no need for "amenities." A clean, well-maintained space, even a small one, is not [i]necessarily[/i] a "tiny dysfunctional space." You're making a big and negative assumption there, based, I suspect, on horror stories on DCUM and similar sites, or from friends, rather than on first hand experience.

My DH is a foreigner like you, lived in flats and rental houses all through university and graduate school overseas, and liked the dorm life our DC because it was more collegial and less stressful than having to find off-campus housing (a real slog in the areas around many colleges here, expensive and hard to find unless you reserve at least a year early). [/quote]

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