<p>We are going to Charlottesville, VA this weekend to look for apartments. Does anyone have information about where to look? Preferably close to the medical school. We have an appointment with the apartment agent to look at some places. Need to get DS move in at the end of this month.</p>
<p>Will your son be a student at the School of Medicine? This is on the website for grad students: [Housing</a>, Graduate Guide, U.Va.](<a href=“http://www.virginia.edu/graduateguide/housing.html]Housing”>http://www.virginia.edu/graduateguide/housing.html) Though I don’t know how helpful/updated it is; the link to the Off-Grounds Housing Office (sponsored by the studen council, I believe) is broken.</p>
<p>There’s a housing webpage for law and business school students that you might find helpful for ideas: [Charlottesville</a> Housing](<a href=“http://www.law.virginia.edu/html/insider/housing.htm]Charlottesville”>Housing | University of Virginia School of Law)</p>
<p>This brings back memories. My then-boyfriend (now husband of 24 years) and I did this trip when he was starting grad school (the year before we got married and I entered med school at UVa). </p>
<p>I’m sure things have changed quite a bit, but at one time the big apartment building at 1800 Jefferson Park Avenue was very popular with the medical students. It’s close to the hospital and a bus runs by it. It’s not palatial but your son can get the lay of the land his first year and then find others to room with elsewhere if he prefers.</p>
<p>For what it’s worth, the first year curriculum may be almost a full-day type of thing, where it isn’t all that important to be able to get back and forth easily to campus. He may just be able to spend the full day there and go home at the end of the day. I lived up near the law/business schools on Arlington Boulevard near the Barracks Road shopping center, and could catch the bus that came into the married student housing nearby, or drive to the stadium and catch a bus from there. It wasn’t a problem.</p>
<p>When my husband started grad school (a year ahead of me), he found a number of options for shared housing. Your son might be able to find other incoming med students with an extra room in a house. A number of the kids who go on from undergrad to med school at UVa may already have a house they are renting. Do check into the off-grounds housing office.</p>