OP: You are right to be upset as one's living conditions will affect other areas of the student's daily life. I, too, would be upset.

OP here-I am glad to see some people on this board understand-it’s not about being a snowflake that can’t take the heat. DC can, and will now have to if they aren’t able to change rooms.

It’s the whole thing-being in a basement, wedged into a corner room away from most with no roommate to have that initial college experience with when my DC was looking forward to that-makes me angry and sad. It’s not like I can go and visit the first few weekends to see how things are going as I am here in the DMV. I was sad about DC leaving in the first place and going so far and it would have given me some comfort to know they were happy and excited about their first dwelling away from home. If no one understands these feelings then I can’t say anything more!

Went to college in DC in a dorm without AC yet managed to survive. Much worse than southern CA in August/Early September and May but somehow managed to survive.

We have turned kids and clearly some parents into snowflakes that get triggered by every little thing.

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Anonymous wrote:OP you really need to say whether this college is within a five miles of the coast. No AC then is doable. If it is in Pomona, no way would I want my kid to suffer in Inland Empire Heat in August/ September/October without AC. That is just cruel.

This year dorm move in is August 17. Last year starting with August 17 the temperature in Pomona was 93 degrees. From August 28th and 29th the temperature was 99 degrees.

You're conveniently ignoring the 70 degree lows at night. It's the desert. You know where students spend their day? Anywhere but the dorm.

When it is 99 degrees for the high and 70 degrees for the low, the low happens right before dawn at 6 in the morning. It is still in the 80's in the late evenings until 9 or 10 at night. Students sometimes go back to their dorms after lunch then go back to campus. It is miserable to be hot and sweaty then take a shower to freshen up then start sweating again as you are getting dressed. No air conditioning in a basement room in a single seems miserable.

Anonymous wrote:I hope you realize that "back in my day..." comparisons are really inappropriate when it comes to climate.

Why? Here are the max temps from my first week of freshman year. 104, 95, 102, 86, 100. It was a lot cooler than that in southern cal.

It is ridiculous how the discussion of climate change has convinced people that the climate has already changed. The “warmest July on record” stuff you hear is because they’re taking into account temps over the ocean and the poles. The CONUS has had a relatively average to cool spring/summer. Besides, the predictions for long term climate change are for a handful of degrees over the next hundred years. You kid will be out of college by then.

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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.

This is not uncommon timing for room/dorm assignments

This. My DS got his room assignment and roommate info the first week of August as a freshman. He moved in Labor Day weekend.

My DC’s college gives you your dorm assignment in July, but doesn’t tell you your room number until move in day. It’s smart — don’t give people time to stew and complain.

Anonymous wrote:Harvard and Yale are not in SoCal (or any Ivy for that matter) so don’t need AC. Why they are even being mentioned in this thread is a waste of time.

New England is fuggin hotter than Socal in August.

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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.

mmmkay. Amazing then how many of us survived no AC in a southern school in the 90s and still aced math and math-based engineering courses, and for some reason the northern-most ivies still have no AC in some dorms and yet their students are some of the highest performers on tests.

If AC really mattered to you, you should have investigated. There also is something called AC for an individual room: better than a fan, not central air but decent.

I remember putting in my ac unit and just asking my RA what day in the semester will she check my dorm, so I didn’t get written up. It was pretty common, not sure what the fussing is about. You’re getting an elite education and complaining about a problem that a fan can solve.

What kid of AC unit did you get that wasn't visible from outside the room?

Anonymous wrote:OP you really need to say whether this college is within a five miles of the coast. No AC then is doable. If it is in Pomona, no way would I want my kid to suffer in Inland Empire Heat in August/ September/October without AC. That is just cruel.

This year dorm move in is August 17. Last year starting with August 17 the temperature in Pomona was 93 degrees. From August 28th and 29th the temperature was 99 degrees.

You're conveniently ignoring the 70 degree lows at night. It's the desert. You know where students spend their day? Anywhere but the dorm.

OP you really need to say whether this college is within a five miles of the coast. No AC then is doable. If it is in Pomona, no way would I want my kid to suffer in Inland Empire Heat in August/ September/October without AC. That is just cruel.

This year dorm move in is August 17. Last year starting with August 17 the temperature in Pomona was 93 degrees. From August 28th and 29th the temperature was 99 degrees.

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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.

mmmkay. Amazing then how many of us survived no AC in a southern school in the 90s and still aced math and math-based engineering courses, and for some reason the northern-most ivies still have no AC in some dorms and yet their students are some of the highest performers on tests.

If AC really mattered to you, you should have investigated. There also is something called AC for an individual room: better than a fan, not central air but decent.

I remember putting in my ac unit and just asking my RA what day in the semester will she check my dorm, so I didn’t get written up. It was pretty common, not sure what the fussing is about. You’re getting an elite education and complaining about a problem that a fan can solve.

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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.

mmmkay. Amazing then how many of us survived no AC in a southern school in the 90s and still aced math and math-based engineering courses, and for some reason the northern-most ivies still have no AC in some dorms and yet their students are some of the highest performers on tests.

If AC really mattered to you, you should have investigated. There also is something called AC for an individual room: better than a fan, not central air but decent.

Anonymous wrote:Harvard and Yale are not in SoCal (or any Ivy for that matter) so don’t need AC. Why they are even being mentioned in this thread is a waste of time.

Uh, this is DCUrbanmoms, not SoCal moms

Anonymous wrote:Harvard and Yale are not in SoCal (or any Ivy for that matter) so don’t need AC. Why they are even being mentioned in this thread is a waste of time.

why don't you read the thread before commenting? lots of people are calling out OP for whining. Many east coast schools (and souuthern) have no a/c and the heat and humidity is worse

Harvard and Yale are not in SoCal (or any Ivy for that matter) so don’t need AC. Why they are even being mentioned in this thread is a waste of time.