<p>I always thought people usually had three other roommates when living in dorms, but I’ve heard some people having only one other their freshmen year, and even a few having a room all to themselves?</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of someone having three other roommates. Most college freshmen have one roommate although some, including myself had two. Some schools allow freshmen to purchase a single.</p>
<p>For many years, students only had one roommate and that was considered standard.</p>
<p>However, with construction of suite style dorms within the past 10 years, it’s now possibly to have up to 3 roommates. Now there isn’t really a standard, it’s more or less based on your preference.</p>
<p>Yeah, it depends on the school. At mine you have the option of a single, double, or triple; the prices are scaled accordingly. I personally was in a triple. One of the housing areas (the one I was in) has suite-style housing while the other two have the traditional dorm setup. So for me, I had two roommates and a total of seven suitemates (excluding my roommates). Again though, the exact setups depend on the school.</p>
<p>PhantomVirgo basically covered all the colleges I visited. Each college can be different. Within a college, there can be several styles of dorm, traditional halls, suites, etc.</p>
<p>For roommates, I only saw single, double and triple so at most 3 in a room. As PhantomVirgo described, you can have many more suitemates.</p>
<p>Haven’t seen 4 in one room. I’ve heard of triples. At one of our schools there are singles, doubles and suites with any combination of double and single rooms. At other, there are single suites (2 single rooms/one bath shared) or double suites ( 2 double rooms sharing 1 bath), traditional rooms which always double unless you’re an RA, and apartments where mostly multiple single rooms.</p>
<p>Four people in one room tends to be uncommon (though not unheard of). Singles, doubles, and triples are more the norm, but I’ve heard of more schools doing quadruples.</p>
<p>At my school, freshmen can only live in double, triple, or quad room. So yeah, everyone has at least 1 roommate and the most you can have is 3. (I’m only going to have 1 though)</p>
<p>My school does things a little differently. Every student has the option of living in a dorm, a suite, or an apartment. Dorms are either single or double occupancy and have a community bathroom. Suites are either 1 bed/1 bath (private), 2 bed/1 bath (private rooms), 2 bed/2 bath (shared rooms), or 4 bed/2 bath (private rooms). Apartments are either 4 bed/2 bath (private bedrooms) or 2 bed/2 bath (private bedrooms). </p>
<p>I lived in a 4 bed/2 bath suite with 3 other girls the beginning of my freshman year then switched to a private 1 bed/1 bath suite.</p>
<p>I heard of single, double, or quad. Never really heard of triple though.</p>
<p>It depends on what you define as roommates.</p>
<p>At my school, there are probably 5 or fewer tripled rooms on campus. There was one in my building freshman year and it was due to the way the building had been originally built. One room was just so large (like the size of the dorm’s lobby), that it didn’t make sense just to use it for two people. (They renovated it from a traditional style hall to a suite style hall.)</p>
<p>Everything was singles and doubles. Most freshmen live in dorms and not apartments. Most of our dorms are “suite-style”, so you have one roommate and you share a bathroom with two suite-mates. Some people consider suitemates to be roommates, but I personally never have. In traditional style halls, there are only one or two bathrooms on an entire hall, so you literally only have one roommate.</p>
<p>The only singles we had were in apartments and the Honors Dorm and the Honors Dorm singles still had suite-mates and the apartments still had apartment mates.</p>
<p>All of our apartments were 2, 3, or 4 bedroom apartments. My sophomore year I had a 2 bedroom apartment and I shared it with one other person. We called each other roommates.</p>
<p>So, thus, it depends on your definition of roommate… but I’d say it’s typical to have between 1 and 3 roommates, with 1 or 2 more common.</p>
<p>Singles doubles or Quad when I was in college</p>