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04-29-2008, 11:14 AM
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| Thanks NYSkins1. I appreciate your insight. | 
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04-29-2008, 12:02 PM
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#32 | | Junior Member
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| Any international transfers?
Have you guys filled out the transfer release form? | |
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04-30-2008, 01:50 AM
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| Okay.. I just talked to one of my friends who is at Rice right now and is an O-week advisor and peer academic advisor... he said "...we actually have a SEVERE housing shortage this year... but good luck on getting on. I know there's plenty of apartments in the area that actually cost less than we get charged".
I'm so confused! so.....I'll likely be off campus?  sad.. | |
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04-30-2008, 06:42 PM
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| Or not. DD really likes being "off campus". She's about 3 blocks away, and she saves money and has her own bedroom and a nice roommate and she can get away from the noise and have her own space if she wants it; if she doesn't, she bikes or walks 3 blocks to campus and hangs out with everyone. She eats in the serveries sometimes, but saves money by eating breakfast at home, and sometimes packs a lunch. She is still fully integrated into the college community. Best of both worlds! | |
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04-30-2008, 11:36 PM
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| Anxiousmom, is it an apartment? I heard living off campus is cheaper than living on campus.
Is there a calender online that tells us what happens when in the summer? I called Rice today and was told that our housing assignments will be mailed on July 7th. And on the packet it says that the health forms are due on July 1st... and the O-week starts on the 17th of August.. It's so hard to keep up with all these dates! | |
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05-01-2008, 12:43 AM
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#36 | | New Member
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| Rice University O-Week: Undergraduates
The forms aren't current, but I think most of the dates are (Owl Days was something like August 19th last year). | |
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05-01-2008, 02:54 AM
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#37 | | Member
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| Being an O-Week advisor and peer academic advisor doesn't put your friend in any sort of position of authority. There are more than 200 O-Week advisors any given year at Rice, which is roughly 10 percent of the upperclass student body.
There is not a severe housing shortage (although, I admit, I'm not much more of a credible source than anyone else). A certain number of beds are reserved for freshmen, and extra beds are given to transfers. As I said, the O-Week coordinators (of which there are 2 or 3 at each college) work very hard over the summer to get as many transfer students as possible on-campus housing.
That calendar is indeed up-to-date. O-Week starts on August 17.
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05-01-2008, 07:24 AM
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#38 | | Junior Member
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| Thanks, NYSkins1.
It's my understanding that freshmen are guaranteed housing, and that at least some of the remaining beds, if any, might go to transfer students. Is that correct?
So, if one is already on the housing wait list, do you recommend taking any additional steps now or just waiting to see where this all shakes out by July? | |
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05-01-2008, 09:09 AM
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| I was told that we would not be able to switch colleges just because the one we are asssigned is full.. | |
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05-01-2008, 09:13 AM
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| Oh, one more question-- do we have to take the English exam? | |
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05-01-2008, 09:41 AM
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#41 | | Junior Member
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| okay never mind, I looked it up on the O-week website and apparently all new students are required to take them.. | |
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05-01-2008, 10:21 AM
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| I'm sooooo excited! :P | |
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05-01-2008, 11:24 AM
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#43 | | Member
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| You won't have control over which college you may be placed into if you put yourself on the housing wait list, but, yes, you may end up in a different college than the one to which you were originally assigned. My friend who transferred from WashU last year was originally placed into Wiess (which didn't have any empty beds for guys), but Will Rice traded a girl transfer for him, and they both got beds.
RedHerring is correct in saying that freshmen are guaranteed housing, and transfers are given any remaining beds. | |
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05-01-2008, 12:53 PM
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| NYFSkins, I'm just curious, what does RRF stand for? :P | |
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05-01-2008, 04:19 PM
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#45 | | Member
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| You'll find out during O-Week  | |
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