Should be in their Auburn email.
yes
hmm - he checked his hotmail - maybe he didnāt set up the Auburn Email yet!!
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We have a time slot of 11/12 but I donāt really understand how it works either.
My kid was accepted EA1 and didnāt get an email but found the housing time slot message in their AU Access Portal. Is there any way to have messages like this forwarded to their personal email so that they donāt miss anything important? We wouldnāt have known about the housing time slot if not for this message board. Or do we just need to log in and check the portal every day?
Yeah. I thought she entered her personal email when she set up the portal so that all emails will go to both but that didnāt happen. She did get an Auburn email though. The tutorial on the housing page does a relatively decent job of explaining the process.
He just found it that way too! Thank goodness for you guys!!
He has an 11/11 slot. Now to figure out how this all works!
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Itās a lottery. Once you get your housing selection date and time in March for actual bed selection you can reassess. My student had day 2 early afternoon housing selection in a group of 4 and could NOT get The Village. Only options for 4 boys was 191 College and 160 Ross (which is no longer an option for Fall 2025). it seems better options with fewer roommates.
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This board is a great resource. Just found DSās slot for 11/8
If your time slot is at noon and you are still at school, can you log in and pay like 2 or 3 hrs later after you get home?
Yes you can!
Same! We wouldnāt have figured out that he even had an email without this board, appreciate it.
Its been two years since I done the housing apps and all that so things could have changed or my memory could fail me but main points I do recall:
pay housing deposit as soon as it is an option
sign in and enter housing lottery as soon as you can (determined by random draw of time I think). not sure how much that all matters with the actual room time lottery but I just did everything as soon as we had the chance.
If honors college is an option I would suggest applying. you get the option of a great dorm in the Village that fills a lot more slowly than the rest of Village and there is another honors dorm in the Quad that is an option and fills slower. also get another advisor and some smaller more intimate classes. Also, if your child is reserved or shy, or more on the academic side they have a good amount of events and resources that might help them adapt to college life. If admitted to HC, you need to accept it before a certain date to be eligible for honors housing. ask me how I know this (though it worked out in the endā¦)
The non honors dorm in the village were gone by day 2. South Donahue had some single beds available day 2 but not many and no full rooms were available by late day 2.
191 is pretty popular and basically in the downtown (a little further from classes), usually the more social types liked it there the most. The Quad seemed to have more freshman and orientation type activities. these are generalizations but probably close to accurate. There is another apt complex that is coming online this year (The Union?) which is a little further away but amenities are probably nice. If your child can connect with somebody with a better date/time for housing they can be pulled into a room by them but must connect themselves in housing portal beforehand.
Two years ago an off campus apt as a freshman for my son would have bothered me and might have been a deal breaker. Knowing what we know now it is a great option for several reasons. Many off campus apts are a block or three away from classes and downtown. Can be cheaper with more amenities and best of all they donāt close down for breaks which is annoying especially when OOS and dealing with travel logistics. If you get a bad date/time I would look into and recommend it for the right kid over on campus dorms. So just something to think about.
also if you go on Facebook there are groups for nearly everything at Auburn: dorm, apt complex, general housing, majors, colleges, year, fraternities/sororities, local info, etc.
they can be very helpful.
I can say my son absolutely loves it at Auburn and its hard imagining him anywhere else. We are from OOS, pretty far away.
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When you say that certain rooms were gone by day two, which day are you referring toā¦the second day of the possible assigned dates in March?
From your experience will kids who got admitted in EA1 all have a chance to sign up for day one or due to the lottery way they assigned selection days in November, are some of us going to not pick until day two, three, four, etc? Thanks for the info!
The assigned time slot is your first opportunity to sign up.
In the past even students admitted in EA1 did not get a room selection date in March on day 1. My current AU student and his roommate had a Day 2 and Day 4 date. My understanding is that they allocate x number of slots per hour from about 8 am to 5 pm.
Did they end up getting into dorms on campus even though not Day 1?
Thanks for the input. I see what you are saying and I saw an āoff-campusā apartment that was very close to campus. But, as of now, it would be a deal breaker to be a freshman and not on campus in a dorm. Do you know how common it is for freshman, admitted early in the process, to not get to live in a dorm?
Similar outlook here. Itās kind of mind-blowing to me that in this day of booming campus construction, a school thatās seen application numbers go through the roof the last decade and has an undergrad population approaching 30,000 still has less than 5,000 beds on campus. I do not want my kid being in the 25-30% of freshmen living in some apartment building with a rooftop pool as an 18-year-old. I donāt think thatās something he would want, either. Heās OK with the usual public university path: dorm for freshman year, transitioning to fraternity house/rentals with friends and a semester abroad at some point. But a big part of the reason heās applied to a bunch of large schools is for the camaraderie and socializing and school spirit, and a freshman dorm experience is sort of the epitome of all that.
In any event, curious to know the answers to your questions here. Our S25 applied EA but only submitted about 3 weeks ago, and more importantly, Auburn is not at the top of his list so thereās no way heās committing (meaning weāre probably not putting in a housing deposit and certainly not any tuition) before some time in March when heās heard from all of the schools above it on his list. From what Iām reading here, that seems to indicate heād have no chance at dorm space. Bummer.
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Has anyone with a prior student attended WED and knows that the Campus Connections session is about? I have a general guess but looking for specifics.