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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve found that 95% of the things the parents are concerned about on the parent pages are non issues for the actual students. The parents are the whiners.[/quote]

I was just looking at the JMU Reddit and there were several threads about dorms in response to questions from incoming students.  The lack of AC in several older dorms was discussed.  Basically, the answers from current students were mostly along the lines that yes, having no AC sucks for a few weeks of the year, but you just deal with it.  So no, the lack of AC was not a complete non-issue, but neither was it a big deal.  [/quote]

Also several posts saying the benefits of putting in deposit early and/or being in honors college is first dibs on the best dorms and to schedule classes.  One response to a poster whining it wasn't fair to waitlisted kids like him that they got the "suckiest" dorms and classes, "well, you should have gotten better grades in high school to not get waitlisted."[/quote]

In today’s admissions climate you can’t really assume that a kid was waitlisted due to lower grades. Maybe that’s true at some colleges but there are plenty of high stats, high grades, excellent extracurricular kids who are waitlisted or rejected. In the end the kids all pay the same tuition whether WL or not. My kid is going to a school in NE that admitted a very low percent of applicants. They waited to assign dorms until the summer. No preferance given for putting down an early deposit. I like that all kids are on equal footing. Also, we are sending our kid with a fan and they’ll be fine. They turned down an honors college with beautiful dorms and AC. In the end the kids will be fine with a fan (lots of NE families make do w/o AC even in the summer).  [/quote]

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