Are Coed Dorms a Good Idea?

Posted on by Forest in General, Opinion

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Starting this fall semester Columbia Uni in New York will be offering gender neatural Coed Dorms (please let me know if you know of any other uni’s doing this) for their students to live in. This has sparked some issues amongst certain factions of society but it got me wondering are coed dorms a good idea from a financial perspective?

How coed dorms could possibly save students money

Even though I long for a gender neutral society the fact is that most young adults still grow up with the traits of their specified gender. (me included). Women tend to like to shop, men buy crap when they go shopping and don’t know how to do such things. Communication between the sexes in relationships is often seen to create a better balance. In a coed dorm couples and mixed gender friends are much more likely to team together and put their skills where it’s important in the money dept. It’s possible that money could be saved in all areas from shopping to DIY by pooling the common traits of the sexes into one house. I am sure students who live in mixed houses offline can attest to this. Saying that though I am fully aware that you financial competence in any area cannot be deemed by your gender!

In my experience it’s likely to save more cash for the guys. Guy friends in uni always tended to stick on their own but girls teamed up and shared groceries and such costs. It’s more likely for girls and guys (even when not a couple) to team up in this kind of partnership to save cash.

How coed dorms could possibly cost students more!

Let’s face it college is often a time for partying. When young boys and girls get together hormones often rage and an ongoing display of mating dances and heavy intake of alcohol for confidence purposes, of course! It’s possible that the coed dorms could produce more partying as the groups are together and one thing could lead to another….. Parties cost money.

What do you think about all this?

Of course I have no issue with the idea of coed dorms. Students of both genders have been hanging out together together for a long time and often stay at each others dorms. It’s unlikely to change much in that area. I was just speculating based on some stereotyping as to what might happen but in reality it would probably be very hard to measure, at least financially.

I would love to know what you think and if you would be comfortable going to or sending your kids to mixed dorms?

Tags: mixed coed dorms, saving money as a couple