yolland
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Perhaps where you live, but the fact that only 20 colleges in the entire US even offer this option suggests otherwise.Salome said:this would have made an interesting discussion back in the 50s
And I agree with redhotswami about comparing dorms to apartments or shared houses...in the US at least, a fairly typical college dorm room for 2 people consists of one room, with a bunkbed, a washbasin, two desks, a chest-of-drawers, and that's it. Pretty much zero privacy, and no personal space to speak of. That's a very different sort of situation from the average off-campus apartment. Now maybe all the colleges that offer this option provide two-bedroom dorm rooms for the students who choose it, but I don't know. If so, then I'm surprised more students don't spring for it lol, because you'd effectively be getting preferential placement if that's the case.
I lived in a mixed-sex rental house as a grad student and certainly had no problems with that, nor am I personally opposed to coed dorm rooms, however, I'm not surprised that so few colleges offer them at this point. A lot of students where I went to college had great difficulty adjusting to the lack of privacy in sharing a bedroom with anyone, because they'd never had to do it at home. And I don't just mean where sex was concerned.