Students may have to 'triple up' in dorm rooms due to overbooking

ATLANTA — Hundreds of Georgia State University students will start class Monday, but they have no university housing right now.

The university says it intentionally overbooked its housing program, and now hundreds of students are staying at a nearby hotel.

About 400 students are staying at the Sheraton, but the hotel is kicking them out in a couple of weeks due to Dragon Con.

Students tell Channel 2's Tyisha Fernandes they may have to double up or triple up in the school's dorm rooms that students are calling tiny rooms.

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University officials think that hundreds of students will end up cancelling the dorm rooms they reserved over the summer.

They're hoping there will be enough cancellations to accommodate all the students staying in the hotel right now.

If they don't, officials will be asking students to take in an extra roommate in exchange for a $1,400 credit.

Now some students, who need the money, have already volunteered to double up and triple up roommates in their dorm rooms, but many students believe they will end up being forced to let another student move in to a space that's already too small.

"Students are just panicking,” student Azaria Moore said. ”We're all in group meets, Instagram, Twitter trying to figure out what to do."

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