<p>D’s school had a larger than usual freshman class this year. Many students were in “temporary triples” that were not so temporary, they are still tripled. It seems that things were difficult for many students due to this. A new administration has started at this school and one of the first things to change is this policy. As of Fall '09, freshmen will not be tripled. Sounds great, right? What it means to the sophomore class is that they are filling every nook and cranny of every dorm and the overflow will go to temporary housing in a motel. The class that suffered this year will also be the class to suffer next year.</p>
<p>I’m sure you are all sick of hearing me gripe about my D’s school. I’m sick of griping about them too. I wish she would transfer.</p>
<p>My school has a housing crunch…they way overaccepted for the incoming freshmen class so we’re in a crunch until the new dorm that’s planned is built. On our housing forms, they asked for us to sign up for voluntary “temporary” triples in double rooms and voluntary “temporary” quints in natural quad rooms. Quints? Like, seriously? Five people slammed in a room is ridiculous. Though the incentive for it is that if you voluteer for a temporary triple, they’re giving you $1500 if you stay in the temporary triple all year. I’m sure there’s going to be tons of freshmen in temporary triples.</p>
<p>^ Yes, my school that’s having a housing problem is a private.</p>
<p>They also offered I think $3000 to the first 20 people that volunteered to commute next year that were living on campus this year, forgot to mention that. And for the freshmen that will be getting temporary tripled, I’m assuming they’ll get money of their housing bill, but I don’t think they’ll get the free $1500 dollars (on a visa gift card or something like that) that the rising sophomores/juniors/seniors were offered.</p>
<p>TrixieAnn, if you want to know what my school is then shoot me a PM. I’d rather remain a little more anonomous and not name my school on the board.</p>
<p>If it’s that the freshman class of last year was tripled and is forced into being tripled again this year as sophomores even though this year’s freshman aren’t, it doesn’t make sense and you have a right to gripe. </p>
<p>Some of the UCs went to triples for incoming freshman some years ago but it’s usually just the freshman who are tripled and by the time they’re sophomores they no longer triple.</p>
<p>One of the questions I asked every school when DD was applying because I just couldn’t see three women in a forced triple. Particularly my DD who needs her space. Lots of schools are going through this though. My older one is moving to an off campus studio next year, expensive but his school doesn’t guarantee housing the last two years. This is also fairly common and worth asking about if you care about guaranteed housing.
zoey…is your student at all interested in being an RA? That might help with her personal housing situation…</p>
<p>As I reflect on DS cousins where they didn’t have guaranteed housing for 4 years, I felt fortunate that we didn’t have to go through their troubles.</p>
<p>DS likes to have roommates. W and I believe DS left his internship in Germany because he didn’t have a roommate. He now shares a house with 5 others. He can afford his own apartment.</p>
<p>My daughter’s school, Cornell, has had a housing crunch for roughly the last 50 years. It is so bad that off-campus apartments in the best locations are rented before Thanksgiving for the following academic year. (My daughter and her prospective roommates signed their lease for next year in early November.) On-campus housing is guaranteed only for freshmen, sophomores, and transfers, and continuing students (both sophomores and the upperclassmen who are not guaranteed housing) get the worst choices.</p>
<p>This is just the way it is in some university communities.</p>
<p>I went to Cornell, too, thirtysomething years ago. At one point, I lived in a small on-campus dorm suite that was originally designed for two people. In my time, it housed three. Now, it houses four. Meanwhile, my daughter, a Cornell sophomore, is living in a double so small that the dressers have to be placed under the beds because there is no other way to fit the standard amount of furniture into the room.</p>
<p>PM me if you want to know where this is. Like the previous poster, I’d like to keep D anonymous, especially with the other postings I’ve made.</p>
<p>The concept that this class has gotten a raw deal has hit the campus. There were the ones tripled as freshmen, now freshmen will not be tripled but sophomores are squeezed into every corner. The local motel has not been revealed but all the students that signed a housing contract will be held to it. It’s just tough noogies if you got the Roach Motel five miles away with an hourly shuttle bus. A petition is being passed.</p>
<p>At this school you get $200 off a double rate if you are put in a triple. Per year.</p>
<p>Zoey, in my experience kids usually suffer these minor slings and arrows well. In many cases the extra roommate is just another close friend. I really believe that it helps if the parents make light of it. Your DD will probably face these little annoyances on the job too, the new directive in work environments is crowd them in. Learning these things shouldn’t throw you is part of the drill IMO.</p>
<p>S2’s univ. had a big housing crunch this year. His is the largest freshman class in school history. There was not enough housing for all freshmen. They didn’t triple. Instead the univ. leased apartment space in nearby apartments populated totally by students. </p>
<p>It’s a big state u. with a large off campus population. The students were able to catch the commuter bus to get to campus. There are always no-shows on move-in day at the dorms. After the first ten days of sch. the freshman were able to move into unfilled dorm space. S knew several kids in this situation. I think they were all in dorm rooms by Halloween.</p>
<p>The school has announced that they will not accept as many students for this Fall’s incoming class.</p>