Laura, 51, originally occupied the room in 1990 when she was a freshman at the same school,The odds of getting the same room at the same school as a parent are about 1 in every 1,100, according to statistics shared with PEOPLE by Miami University.
When Sarah learned where she was living in July, both ladies were flabbergasted. “I said, 'Are you kidding me?’ This was my exact room,” Laura told“When my mom told me [where she lived], we both screamed over the phone, and I was in total disbelief,” Sarah said in the school's press release.
"There was the window with a big ledge where my friends and I sat and the furniture was in the same position, though the desk and bed are longer,” she recalled. “The floors and ceiling are the same."Laura Bowling in her dorm room at Miami University in 1990.Sarah told the university that it "feels like home" at Miami University. She believes "Miami is where I am supposed to be," and is looking forward to making memories in the same room her mom once called her own..
Events with similar odds include a baseball player with a .300 batting average has a similar chance of getting hits in six consecutive at-bats or a 90% free throw shooter in basketball hitting 65 consecutive free throws, Bailer says.
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