<p>What do you think of a college who overbooks there school by 300 students and then squeezes them into the double rooms making them triple rooms?? Sound crazy??? there are only two desks, and 2 closests, but three beds??? that is what we just found out that they are doing at my daughters college she will be going to. This is her senior year and she was told that they don’t have enought room for everyone. Isn’t there a code being broke somewhere, like a fire code. I can’t imagine what the weight limit for one building would be. I’m sure if I dig far enough I will find that there is a fire code being broken.
Anyone agree, and how do I find this out???</p>
<p>This happens all the time - especially as the college population has grown bigger in the last few years. It is a bit of a pain to think about what you’re paying for housing and then having your kid squeezed into smaller housing but there are colleges that are overflowing with kids and they have to put them somewhere.</p>
<p>BC – you are right, this does happen, will happen at many SUNY campuses. But just becuase it happens all the time, it doesnt mean missie doesnt have a good point. i never thought of code issues. </p>
<p>Missie, I suggest you go on the web for the city, county or town the college is located in, and try to locate the building deparment. Many colleges will have links on their websites, and their may be a link to local police. This is not a police matter, but that can help you determin what jurisdiction you are in. Good luck. I think fires in dorms scare us all.</p>
<p>I’ve thought of code issues in the past too but I would guess that the people that manage the buildings think about code issues far more than the average person as there are multiple code issues in managing a building.</p>
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<p>Check for sprinklers.</p>
<p>Our son has a private apartment - it’s completely up to code. It has sprinklers, multiple exits in every room, second floor, CO2 detectors, smoke detectors.</p>
<p>your daughter is a senior and still living in the dorms with random roommates.</p>
<p>why isn’t she living with her friends?</p>
<p>or is your daughter a senior in HS. that would make more sense</p>
<p>My D’s school is well known for this practice. They call them temporary triples but everyone knows that the chance of getting out during the school year is slim. Yes, it’s a crowded situation but the students learn to live with it. As far as the building regulations/fire codes, etc., you can check but it’s likely the school has already gone through it all. At D’s school the tripled rooms are not always the biggest ones or the ones I would think would be most obvious choices for tripling. Its all about building and fire codes.</p>
<p>I think it’s a shame that your D has this for her senior year but students everywhere survive tripling and some even like it.</p>
<p>Oleo, thats kinda of a mean statement. Maybe OP’s D couldnt afford to move off campus with friends (some campuses, dorms are cheaper), whatever. </p>
<p>Maybe one should call head of residence life and get a feel for whether they are in compliance. I guess I have a lot less faith in bueracrats than oithers do. Residence life may have the extra kids shoved down them.</p>
<p>Do you think it is possible to get a sense of how likely this is to happen (the tripling of a double, I mean) prior to enrolling?</p>
<p>Fendrock – if this is for this September, call residenece life. In any event, call residence life, if it is happening this year, my guess is unless they are completing building of a new dorm it will happen next year. For example, Fordham has some triples this year, but their new dorms are getting closer to completion.</p>
<p>Actually, I’m wondering about my HS junior d who will be checking out colleges and would HATE to be put into a triple.</p>
<p>My older d is starting at University of South Carolina this fall. </p>
<p>Curiously they have plenty of housing available this year, apparently more so than usual.</p>
<p>missie, there is no way the weight of one extra person could cause an issue. It’s possible that if there is enough overcrowding the bathrooms may not have enough fixtures to meet code. It’s conceivable, but less likely that they would go over the occupancy required for fire exit widths/number. At least one school told us on the accepted students tour that they occasionally have kids temporarily in dorm common areas at the beginning of the year, but we were assured that they all end up in real rooms, though there might be handful of forced triples.</p>
<p>Too many college girls in one room? Ok, who’s been hacking into my daydreams??</p>
<p>Two desks and two closets, but three beds. Wow. I’d be on the phone at the very least demanding a lower room cost. There are real triples with 3 beds, 3 desks and 3 closets and a lower price point at some of our state schools, but tripling without really tripling the necessary stuff like a desk and closet. No way, not for the prices that are charged these days for room and board. I also have to assume that the OPs D is going to be a freshman in college and not a senior in college.</p>
<p>This is another reminder to get your housing papers and deposit in ASAP. When I say ASAP, I mean early in the morning on the first day that they accept housing requests.</p>
<p>mathmom, we’re generally not talking about one triple but lots of triples. I agree weight is not likely to cause issue – I would have thought electical outlets would have been an issue. </p>
<p>Putting kids in common areas is just gross. Do they have walls, doors, security, locks, closets?? They should make the head of residence life and other admin take in kids into their rooms. </p>
<p>I would also go on the college page here on CC for the colleges you are interested in and post the question there.</p>
<p>Mom of 3, they do give a discount at most SUNYs, but only for the period before the option to de-triple is ended. btw, the moving is distracting and can get ugly when they kids have to decide who of the 3 has to be the one to move. Not as bad as lord of the flies, but distracting.</p>
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<p>Maybe at your school this is a shocking statement, but some people, at some schools, actually LIKE living in the dorms and ARE living with their friends there.</p>
<p>OP, I sympathize with your point, but I’m curious as to what you expect the school to do, other than maybe reducing the cost of board for those in crowded rooms. If they don’t have any more rooms, they don’t have any more rooms. Perhaps they shouldn’t have admitted so many people (and it would be reasonable to fuss to prevent this happening in future years), but it’s done now, and they can’t just chuck people onto the streets.</p>
<p>Waay back in the 80’s, I was tripled (in a room for two) freshman year. Yes, it was tight. We managed. The school kept a list of all the tripled rooms and alerted them when a space became available in any dorm. The third girl in our room moved out to another dorm just beforeThanksgiving. We were refunded a portion of our room fee for the semester.</p>
<p>Fast forward 28 years…S2 is now at my sch. He just finished fresh. yr. His was the largest entering freshman class in sch. history. There was not enough dorm space. </p>
<p>The school leased off campus apts. for the overflow of freshman. They were alerted when dorm space became available and then moved on campus. Staying in the apt. was not an option if there was dorm space available. </p>
<p>All freshman were out of the apts. and on campus before the end of the first semester.
Many were able to get a dorm space after just a couple of weeks. The schools policy is not to make any dorm changes in the first 10 days. </p>
<p>S2’s school apparantly decided the biggest class in sch. history was a little too big.
They capped class size at 500 fewer freshman for the coming year.</p>
<p>Triples are nothing new.
I went to a state univeristy in the late 70’s that would build up lounges and put 5-8 freshmen in a “room”. However, the could squeeze them in.
I also recall some schools from that time period renting out hotel rooms and putting kids in there.
You just deal with it.</p>