Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are just too many students requesting singles for documented disabilities. For every request approved colleges lose money because students are often charged the standard double or triple rate instead of the single rate.

Under federal guidelines, a university is only required to provide an effective accommodation that removes a barrier to equal access, not necessarily the student's preferred accommodation.

So more and more colleges are looking at students who put in for singles due to a disability and carefully matching the student with another student who shares identical sleep schedules, cleanliness habits, substance free, low-social needs, etc. Only after trying out this living situation and working with the RA to solve any difficulties will they then consider moving a student to a single.

And really there is a certain percent of students who request singles who end up being fine living in a double even if it isn't ideal. The goal for every student in college is gainful employment, so learning to tolerate other people's quirks is really important if you want your child to get and keep a job and to have a future partner/spouse. It can be incredibly difficult but when you look at the big picture and long term success shielding every student who would benefit from having a single but can end up coping in a double isn't really helpful to their future.

Way too many. As a result, at schools with three or four year live-on requirements, juniors and even seniors now get crammed into doubles at an age when they're way too old to be sharing a room, as opposed to when I was in school and a single was virtually guaranteed once you reached a certain class year. I fugging hate it.

It really isn't fair. Yeah, nothing in life is fair, but most freshman don't have this magical experience sharing a dorm room. If OP were poor her kid would have no choice but to share a room with a sibling and a cousin during vacation because there is no other option. Almost every freshman would love more space to decompress, not hear someone snore, hear another person's alarm go off, be kept up by a roommate gaming late into the night, not have a roommate with hygiene issue, etc. But somehow almost all freshman somehow deal with it. You learn a lot of life lessons by sharing a room for year and it really is a rite of passage for many 18-19 year olds in this country.

It is really interesting to hear parents of students on the spectrum who wanted their kids to have singles and thought it wouldn't work out if they didn't have a single, but in the end it did and their kids were able to make it through the freshman year. This is one of the reason it seems like more colleges are not allowing so many accommodations for singles. You have to prove you can't sleep or you need the space for medical equipment. So one of OP's example of "Very strict rule follower who would report any housing violations to the RA. Being around any sort of alcohol in his room would lead to a meltdown." That isn't going to warrant an accommodation.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are just too many students requesting singles for documented disabilities. For every request approved colleges lose money because students are often charged the standard double or triple rate instead of the single rate.

Under federal guidelines, a university is only required to provide an effective accommodation that removes a barrier to equal access, not necessarily the student's preferred accommodation.

So more and more colleges are looking at students who put in for singles due to a disability and carefully matching the student with another student who shares identical sleep schedules, cleanliness habits, substance free, low-social needs, etc. Only after trying out this living situation and working with the RA to solve any difficulties will they then consider moving a student to a single.

And really there is a certain percent of students who request singles who end up being fine living in a double even if it isn't ideal. The goal for every student in college is gainful employment, so learning to tolerate other people's quirks is really important if you want your child to get and keep a job and to have a future partner/spouse. It can be incredibly difficult but when you look at the big picture and long term success shielding every student who would benefit from having a single but can end up coping in a double isn't really helpful to their future.

Way too many. As a result, at schools with three or four year live-on requirements, juniors and even seniors now get crammed into doubles at an age when they're way too old to be sharing a room, as opposed to when I was in school and a single was virtually guaranteed once you reached a certain class year. I fugging hate it.

Anonymous wrote:There are just too many students requesting singles for documented disabilities. For every request approved colleges lose money because students are often charged the standard double or triple rate instead of the single rate.

Under federal guidelines, a university is only required to provide an effective accommodation that removes a barrier to equal access, not necessarily the student's preferred accommodation.

So more and more colleges are looking at students who put in for singles due to a disability and carefully matching the student with another student who shares identical sleep schedules, cleanliness habits, substance free, low-social needs, etc. Only after trying out this living situation and working with the RA to solve any difficulties will they then consider moving a student to a single.

And really there is a certain percent of students who request singles who end up being fine living in a double even if it isn't ideal. The goal for every student in college is gainful employment, so learning to tolerate other people's quirks is really important if you want your child to get and keep a job and to have a future partner/spouse. It can be incredibly difficult but when you look at the big picture and long term success shielding every student who would benefit from having a single but can end up coping in a double isn't really helpful to their future.