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justdrop
Sat, 26 May 2007 15:03:17 +0000

Question for current transfers, or if you know answer…
i’ll be entering as sophomore transfer.

-What should i do for housing?
-I heard last year most of the transfers were housed on campus?
-ALSO, since you have to rank the buildings, would it be bad if all of my rankings are the popular buildlings which are full?
-Will i have better chance if i choose ‘less popular’ buildlings to rank instead?
Any and all responses appreciated. Thanks!



last year at transfer oreintation, it was announced that housing was guaranteed for all transfers, but they re-worked the whole housing system and they already ran out of spaces to accomodate current students. Of course, spaces will open up because of cancelations and etc, but you should have a back up just in case because no one knows what is going to happen.

oh yeah, most of the housing wasn’t on campus. there aren’t that many non freshman spaces on campus anyway. You should be lucky to even get usc housing. even the less popular buildings are good. I visited friends in Portland street house, founders, annenberg house (the less popular buildings) and I thought it was ok. Those places can still be social. I lived in one one of the most popular buildings and I wouldn’t have mind living in them. The only difference is that they are further away than the popular ones.

just apply for housing with your top choices and select that you would accept any housing assignment given to you. check out city park and conquest’s roommate search too for non-USC options. but I would wait it out to see if I could get USC housing because its probably the best deal especially for a new student