Religious Students Getting Singles Based on Religious Observation?

BirdintheHand
Wed, 18 Jul 2018 22:14:55 +0000

If the college has the option to select “substance-free” housing and/or single-gender housing, choosing that might increase the chance that he gets a compatible roommate on the “girls in the room” issue. There is no guarantee, of course, but the odds might be better. My son said that although the student group on his sub-free floor was quite diverse (not only with respect to religious beliefs, but also in terms of political beliefs, race, SES, and everything else you’d expect at college), he almost never saw any girls on his hall, even though many of the guys had girlfriends. In any case, as others have mentioned, it seems like a lot of colleges require students to come up with a “roommate contract” to agree to certain guidelines from the very beginning, in hopes of avoiding major conflicts down the road.