New Freshman Class Stats

DunninLA
Mon, 09 Sep 2013 15:43:43 +0000

There is one other issue on the triples that is still sort of irritating me… the University is making a lot of extra profit from triples vs. doubles. This surprised me. When my daughter told me she was going to have to live in a triple instead of the double that she signed up for very early on and paid the deposit for, I said to her that at least the benefit of that is that the room charge would be divided into 3 students instead of 2, so she’d pay 33% less in room charge. Right? Wrong.

A double occupancy is listed at $6,430 per person, which is $12,860 total for the year for that room. I figured then that $12,860 would now be divided into three, so $4,287 per resident. (Of course meal plan is charged separately and is not included in that fee). But today when I looked up Residence Hall fees, instead of $4,287, I found $5,145 per student. That makes that same room collect $15,435 annual rent vs. the $12,860 if it were still a double. YOu see now what’s bugging me?

Now it looks to me like the University is collecting an extra $2,575 rent per room by having three students instead of two occupying the same room. Sure, extra students use extra electricity for elevators and lamps and such, and more water for showering, and more wear on the carpet, plus and an extra desk, chair and wardrobe, but I don’t think it’s THAT much! Does that seem strange to anybody else… first mandating students into a triple to accomodate Cal Poly’s growth objectives, then not giving them the full price break?

I don’t know… not a big deal in the full scheme of things, but it still kinda bugs me that they can fail to plan adequate facilities to absorb their growth objectives, then profit from that mistake.