@Marian , I should probably clarify that my D also tends to be an introvert, and we worry she stays home too much for a teenager and doesn’t socialize enough with her friends! She’s actually at a football game tonight with two of her friends, but if it were not for their suggesting it, she’d stay home. Really. Left to her own devices, she’d be content to stay in her room all weekend and read, study, listen to music and just hang out with herself. On one hand, I know that’s really okay, and she does have friends at high school - but these are girls she’s known most of her life and grown up with, too.
In short - We’re afraid if she has a single room at college she’ll never meet anyone, or have a social life.
Like I said, she had a roommate for a week at each band camp, and enjoyed it - and she made some new friends. She really clicked with her room mate at the second band camp and they still text each other… so she is fine with having a room mate in the future.
She’s not really anti-social or misanthropic - she just entertains herself really well, lol, and we just don’t want her left out because she forgot to come out of her room during welcome week… A roommate will help prevent that from happening. Its not about the extra money for a single… If she wants a single for junior year (or sophomore, after she’s made a few friends) instead of an apartment, that’s fine.