room sharing at durham

they categorically do not have shared rooms at butler college

I got an offer from Hatfield a few weeks ago and was also worrying about the room sharing thing. Their website says they have 80 shared rooms and 230 singles or something (?). So dyou get your own room in your second year or move out or what?
Do they really do this so that there's a better community spirit or cause it comes cheaper?

If you say you are gay you can get a single room almost definatly

So you need a good excuse to get a single? You can't just say cause I don't like sharing or I'm claustrophobic or something silly?

Put it this way - my room mate last year wrote on her form "under no circumstances do I want to be put in a shared room" in big letters. We ended up sharing for a whole year, and got on really well!
What I would say to you is, fill in the form normally, don't write any stupid lies on it. If you get a single like you wanted, great! If you end up sharing, then no biggy, give it a try. You never know, you might end up enjoying it (shock horror! ). Plus, shared rooms tend to be massive and a LOT nicer than singles.

Thanks a lot, that's encouraging! I'm getting less worried about it all now, since you all seem to have good experiences and the atmosphere sounds really friendly and open.

(P.S. I hope noone's been offended by that and that it's obvious that it's tongue in cheek...)

I still don't think I'd go if I had to share a room. I will have to endeavour to find out when visiting if it can be guarenteed for me to not have a double.

I seriously don't see the problem with sharing.

Just put that you don't want to share in the first term on the form, and then share with your best mate in either the second or the third. What's the big deal?