<p>Lots of colleges have single rooms. </p>
<p>When my son took a semester off, we found that a lot depended on timing. The health insurance questionaire that asked “are you a student?” came in Septemeber, so he was okay for the spring semester. The car insurance discount questionaire came in December (still a student) and July (going to be a full-time student in the fall), so we got through with the opposite of a Catch-22. If he’d taken the fall semester off instead, we’d have been in deep yogurt.</p>