<p>If your son doesn’t want the single, and he is a financial aid recipient, it might be worth a call to the school to see whether they would adjust the financial aid package to compensate for the more expensive room.</p>
<p>This might motivate them to find a double for him somewhere.</p>
<p>But if he and your wallet don’t object, I don’t see a problem. The real losers, in my opinion, are kids who are assigned to small suites as freshmen because they only get to know the few kids in the suite. Kids in corridor dorms, regardless of whether they have roommates, have plenty of opportunity to meet other people.</p>
<p>My daughter will be starting this fall at a college that has quite a lot of singles in the dorm neighborhood assigned to freshmen. She requested one, got it, and is very pleased, even though she is paying the extra housing cost out of her own money.</p>