<p>I would agree that students and their families have a legitimate gripe about being placed in a triple and getting only a relatively small room discount as a result of this and should inform UD of their displeasure about this. As far as being placed in a triple is concerned there really was nothing UD could do about this except for rescinding acceptances already given to students. This situation was not intentional by UD, but rather resulted from the fact that UD had a very unexpected increase (17%) compared to past years in acceptances by OOS students (actually most public universities would be highly envious of this). This has never happened before and one other unfortunate result of this was that no students could be accepted off the waitlist (and I have never heard of this happening before). A poster on another thread had reported that 25% of freshman (I don’t have independent verification of this, but lets assume it is correct) would have to be housed in triples as a result of this. Perhaps UD should have sent an explanation to all students who had to be placed in triples as a result of this situation. On the other hand, there are many universities who routinely place students in triples (or worse, i.e. lounges/basements) on an ongoing basis every year at a rate equal to, or above, the percentage that UD has had to do this year, and don’t advertise this to applicants (and rarely prorate their housing discounts to any significant degree as a result of this). In past years UD has always had a relatively small number of students in triples (probably about 5% average). If UD was just interested in getting as much income as possible then I don’t believe this would have been the case. IMHO I don’t think you will find this same situation reoccurring next year (I realize this does not help students this year but it will show that UD is cognizant of the potential negative effects of this issue (tripling) and will take steps to minimize the potential for it happening again). This is just my perspective based upon my parental interactions with UD since 2006 (Our D graduated in 2010). Is UD perfect-No, but what university is? </p>