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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to a college in the south that had many dorms without AC. It was horrible for multiple months of the year. I remember having headaches, not being able to sleep, just being gross and hot all the time. This was 15 years ago and they have since retrofitted their dorms with AC. If you're paying $50k a year for college, you shouldn't be sweating where you live. [/quote]

This is where i come out. And look, my dorm had no A/C in a place where we roasted for about a month, and then froze our collective a$$es off in the winter.

If I'm paying $20-60K (or more) per year for my child to go to school (plus incidentals on top of that), you had best bet I expect there to be heat and A/C for however long as it's needed. [/quote]

And then the time to worry about that is when you are applying to colleges.  If you apply to a school that has less than 40% of dorms with AC, then you don't get to complain "it isn't fair" when your kid gets assigned a dorm without AC.  If that was what actually matters that much for you, you only pick schools with all dorms AC'd.  Good luck with that by the way outside of the south, because as of 2018, 7 or the 8 Ivies have no ac in dorms and the one that does (columbia) had only about 10 rooms literally with AC.  Don't think much has changed in the last 5 years either.  Point being that most of the midwest/northeast dorms simply do not have AC---very expensive to retrofit older dorms with it, and not worth the cost for just 3-4 weeks of the year.

I prefer for my kids to focus on the academics and career opportunities at their universities (internship, coops, research), etc.  Whether there is AC in dorms or a lazy river on campus really isn't important for my kid's selection.

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