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Originally Posted by couggirl
I also wanted to say that at my friend's school the housing office assumes that parents are filling out the housing questionnaire that is used (by most schools) to assign roommates. I was told that the school assumes that questionnaires are invalid because of this and does not use them. I have been told it is because the school has a high rate of alternative lifestyle students and the parents are not aware of this and the school assumes that the student is not comfortable disclosing the info on the housing questionnaire because their parents might find out.
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This has been going on since the dawn of time, with things like smoking. Of course the kid didn't write on his app that he smoked because the parent had to sign it...or the parent wrote the kid didn't smoke, thinking he didn't...of course he got to college and found himself w/ a roommate that hated smoke. It usually all got worked out, though - everyone understood what was going on. Same with parents requesting things like the 24 hour quiet dorm and the no visitation floor. Maybe some of those kids wanted to be there, but some definitely did NOT.