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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Totally agree with the sentiment that a single is the way to go.  I had a double in TN in the '90s, can't remember if we had AC, hated my roommate and was incredibly jealous of the people who had dared to request a single.  Having a roommate is highly overrated.

To give you another perspective, my daughter will be a freshman at an Ivy this fall and was assigned a triple.  No AC, high floor.  Bummer but those are the breaks.  And everyone does *not* in fact pay the same for housing; the annual fee for a triple is about $2K less than for a single.   From student message boards, the going rate for someone to initiate a housing swap (their single for your double or triple) runs at least $2K, likely more like $4K.[/quote]
DC just finished freshman year at Harvard in a suite. Her two roommates got there before us and she had to sleep in...the common room. No, not a room that was separate from their living area, she was in what was supposed to be the living space for a double suite. I was much more angry than she will ever be about it of course, but it is insane to me that the Harvard College can't afford enough beds for their relatively tiny class.[/quote]

That happened to me 20 years ago! It was really unsettling year and sometimes remembering it still annoys me. Somehow they both claimed the closet in the bedroom so I had to ask for space for my hanging stuff as if 1/3rd of it shouldn’t have been mine. I was the non-prep school kid and had no idea how important it was to get there early and claim space. We were supposed to have two of us in the living area, but roommate #4 got cast in a tv show or movie (can’t remember which) a week before orientation so we never got a 4th.

I think that the housing crunch at Harvard and Yale from my experience is from people requesting and receiving what we called medical singles. In my era it was pretty strict and for things like religious observation, food allergies, complicated medical equipment. I think the rules are looser now and singles are allocated for students who request them if they have sleep apnea, anxiety, autism, etc. That probably puts more kids in fewer rooms.[/quote]

And students going to Pomona realize how great it is to have AC so now so many are requesting medical exemptions for an air conditioned room. So the college has to have an official air conditioning accommodation policy. Despite what some poster keeps insisting, it is pretty miserable not to have air conditioning in the Inland Empire August-October and again in April-May, so plenty of students are requesting air conditioning.

[i]Air Conditioning Policy and Procedures
Pomona College is committed to accommodating qualified students with disabilities who may require the installation and use of an AC unit in their on-campus residence hall assignment. Certain buildings have limitations as to where AC units can be safely installed in a room. Therefore, when an accommodation is granted for an air conditioner, the student will be assigned to a room where an AC unit has already been safely installed. The AC accommodation is met through either pre-installed AC window units or through a central AC system. Students may not bring their own AC unit due to strain on the College electric grid and other infrastructure concerns.

If a student prefers a different room that does not have a pre-installed AC window unit or a central AC system, they have the right to decline the housing placement offered and not make use of their AC accommodation.

By declining the offered placement, the student understands they voluntarily chose to forego their housing AC accommodations and will participate in room draw. Furthermore, the student understands that by choosing their own room assignment for 2024-2025, the room may or may not meet their approved housing accommodations.[/i][/quote]

How can this be?  We’ve been assured in numerous posts that Pomona et al have no flaws.[/quote]
One of the biggest threads about Pomona on this forum is about its cs departments flaws. It’s also heavily criticized more than Williams (who has terrible dorm conditions) and Amherst.[/quote]

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