Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I hear you. My very quiet kid has been assigned to a triple. He had read that his college has a lengthy questionnaire for incoming freshmen to match roommates and assign people to hall sections, including a free response essay about interests and the opportunity to request a single. But when the housing form came out this year, it asked exactly two questions: one about sleeping habits and another about visitors. Then it took until near the end of July for the college to even tell him where he's living. Not sure how random assignments took that long. He's not happy, not excited, and not optimistic. I am starting to regret the horror stories I've told him over the years about my own experience in a freshman year triple. Not good.
Did you agree to pay for a double? I'm curious if colleges honor requests if you ask for double or single and are willing to pay the higher rate.
Many colleges don't have different pay rates. I pay the same for my junior's single studio-like housing with its own kitchen and bathroom as when she was a freshman in a triple dorm that can only be described as a halfway house.
Interesting. DC's school charges much more for a single than for a double/triple.
So does literally every school I've ever visited/investigated (have 3 kids, so that would be 60+ universities, plus all 3 of my kids friends) Never seen school charge same for single as double
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I hear you. My very quiet kid has been assigned to a triple. He had read that his college has a lengthy questionnaire for incoming freshmen to match roommates and assign people to hall sections, including a free response essay about interests and the opportunity to request a single. But when the housing form came out this year, it asked exactly two questions: one about sleeping habits and another about visitors. Then it took until near the end of July for the college to even tell him where he's living. Not sure how random assignments took that long. He's not happy, not excited, and not optimistic. I am starting to regret the horror stories I've told him over the years about my own experience in a freshman year triple. Not good.
Did you agree to pay for a double? I'm curious if colleges honor requests if you ask for double or single and are willing to pay the higher rate.
Many colleges don't have different pay rates. I pay the same for my junior's single studio-like housing with its own kitchen and bathroom as when she was a freshman in a triple dorm that can only be described as a halfway house.
Interesting. DC's school charges much more for a single than for a double/triple.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:People lived without air conditioning for thousands of years. Your snowflake will survive.
Studies done *on college students* show that sleeping in temperatures that are too warm cause lower math scores on tests. Authors compared math scores from students in dorms with A/C and dorms without.
So this is academically important. A/C is not a frivolous demand these days.
I'm so curious about this. Can you cite the study?
Some questions I would have:
1. Who funded the study?
2. Was it peer-reviewed?
3. Did it control for other variables?
4. What was the magnitude of impact on test scores?
DP: I found the study: https://content.tcmediasaffaires.com/LAF/lacom/summer2016.pdf
OK, I read the first paragraph and am already laughing:
We followed 44 students (mean age = 20.2 years; SD = 1.8 years) from a university in the Greater Boston area, Massachusetts in the United States living in AC (n = 24) and non-AC (n = 20) buildings before, during, and after a HW. Two cognition tests were self-administered daily for a period of 12 days (July 9–July 20, 2016), the Stroop color-word test (STROOP) to assess selective attention/processing speed and a 2-digit, visual addition/subtraction test (ADD) to evaluate cognitive speed and working memory. The effect of the HW on cognitive function was evaluated using difference-in-differences (DiD) modelling.
Sample of 44 who tested themselves for 12 days.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:OP I am not going to judge because my kid would hate this. I also think if you are super far away then comfort in form means even more. I would reach out to the housing coordinator and ask if something can be done. My guess is there is a student there who wants a single and got a double. I would also see if you have a medical reason that you could get a note on. My DC has allergies and would be miserable in a basement. Anyway worth a try.
I honestly think switching could be worse. Roommates are still people and more often than not, people hate or just end up in really iffy dorm situations from being assigned someone they don't know to live with. I thought I could never be a freshman with a single, two weeks into college, I was sick of my roommate and clawing Housing/Residential Life to get me into a single.
Anonymous wrote:Does anyone thing the deans and admin don't have A/C in their office?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:People lived without air conditioning for thousands of years. Your snowflake will survive.
Studies done *on college students* show that sleeping in temperatures that are too warm cause lower math scores on tests. Authors compared math scores from students in dorms with A/C and dorms without.
So this is academically important. A/C is not a frivolous demand these days.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:That's why kids who pick schools that have nice dorms, good food, great amenities etc have a much better college experience than kids who pick schools based on the academics.
People laugh at High Point but it is like living in a Four Seasons hotel.
Umm my kids picked their schools for their academic offerings. They certainly weren’t picking based on dorms. One ended up in a crappy one and was fine with it.
How did they pick off of "academic offerings." Most of the things my department offers to students is inaccessible if you don't have a college email and tours do not go through our labs. Applicants hardly know anything about what we offer.
Department web pages, word of mouth, visitation (we toured department spaces) and course catalogs.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:That's why kids who pick schools that have nice dorms, good food, great amenities etc have a much better college experience than kids who pick schools based on the academics.
People laugh at High Point but it is like living in a Four Seasons hotel.
Umm my kids picked their schools for their academic offerings. They certainly weren’t picking based on dorms. One ended up in a crappy one and was fine with it.
How did they pick off of "academic offerings." Most of the things my department offers to students is inaccessible if you don't have a college email and tours do not go through our labs. Applicants hardly know anything about what we offer.
Anonymous wrote:You can’t open a basement window stupid!