<p>Two, I think the real issue will not turn out to be the square footage or furniture but the human element: the interaction between these three young women. If they are friendly and accomodating, all will be well, even at close quarters. If they are uncooperative and hostile, then even a spacious room wouldn’t compensate.</p>
<p>I attended the same university as your daughter decades ago, during the first baby boom wave. I shared a teeny, quirky single with a complete stranger, but we became fast friends, ended up rooming together all four years and in fact are still close some 40+ years later. (Though not so close as we were that first year.
) We had a lot of laughs in that sardine can of a room and it’s one of my fondest memories of college.</p>