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Tripled
Rooms
1. What is a tripled
room?
A
tripled room is a room typically intended for two people,
however three people are temporarily assigned to the space due to high
demand for the residence halls. Each
tripled room includes three beds (one set of beds are bunked), two desks,
two chairs, and a dresser. Each
resident of the tripled room is able to have his/her own Ethernet
connection.
2.
Why do you triple
people into rooms?
Every
year, we know that some number of students who initially indicated they
would be attending Radford in the fall, change their plans but do not tell
us in advance. Therefore, we always
have some room vacancies, but we never know how many or in what locations
until the school year starts. If we
only admitted the exact number of people that could fit in the residence
halls without tripling, many students placed in tripled rooms would not be
admitted to the University.
3. How are people
selected to live in a tripled room?
Residents
of tripled rooms are selected according to their dates of deposits. Therefore, the later you place a deposit
with the University, the more likely you are to be placed in a temporarily
tripled room. The person
who paid their deposit to the University the latest, is considered to have
the temporary placement. The other
two residents are considered the permanent residents of the room.
How do you
de-triple the student rooms?
As
soon as a space becomes available, the temporarily placed person will move
to the open space. Our goal is to
de-triple rooms first within the same hall, followed by the same quad. Finally, we try to find any available
space on campus. Rooms are de-tripled according to dates of deposit. Therefore, the temporarily tripled
resident with the earliest date of deposit will be the first to be
de-tripled.
5.
Can all three of us
stay together in the room if we want to?
Absolutely. Every year, we have some groups of
students who decide to remain in a double-capacity room as a triple even
when space is available for them.
For this to happen, all three residents must sign an agreement form. If all three residents do not sign the
form, then the person who was temporarily placed, or designee, will need to
move.
6. Can one of the
permanent residents of the room be the one to move from the room?
Yes,
as long as all three people agree who is going to move.
7. If I am assigned to
a tripled room, how long will I be there?
The
length of time people stay in triples varies from year to year. In many years, we have had all triples
resolved in the first three weeks of school. In other years, we have had triples the
entire first semester. Our goal is
to get everyone to their permanent placement as quickly as possible.
8. What is the
likelihood of me being placed in a tripled room?
The
later your or your roommate’s date of deposit, the more likely you
will be placed into a triple. Some
people accepted admission into the University beginning in January. Because each year is different, we are
not able to predict what dates of deposit will likely be
placed into temporarily tripled rooms at this time.
9.
Do I receive any
financial compensation for living in a tripled room?
Students
who are still placed in triples past the University census date (the third
Monday of classes) when the University is overcapacity for their genders
will receive a credit to their student accounts. The credit will be added at
the end of the academic semester.
The amount credited to the student account depends on the total time
a resident lives in a tripled room past the census date and when we are
over capacity by gender. Students
who voluntarily choose to be part of a triple will not receive a credit to
their student accounts once we are no longer over-capacity for their
genders.
10. What is
the best way for three people to share a tripled room?
Students
who are living in a temporary triple will have three beds, two desks and a
dresser. Therefore, sharing and
communicating will be crucial to your happiness in the room. Each person has an equal right to a
portion of the room. Most times,
students divide the storage space so that one person takes one half of the
closet; the two other roommates divide the other side of the closet and the
dresser. Students who are going to
be placed in triples are asked to bring the minimum amount of items needed
until the room de-triples. However,
we do offer temporary student storage for residents until the de-tripling
process occurs.
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