Where did you find those dates? I read the part of the draft plan about housing (page 16 of the plan) and it mentioned an expanded move-in, but no dates.
And what the heck are they gonna do – have the kids move in 3 weeks before classes start??? Or are the early move-ins just for things like marching band, athletics and Greek rush?
I tried to watch the virtual discussion on YouTube, but just couldn’t do it, lol. It was just an endless stream of platitudes with almost no informational content.
They are prioritizing Freshmen for the in-person classes – much to the dismay of upperclassmen, which is certainly understandable.
The President of UCF hinted at the post-Thanksgiving change in the town hall Zoom with student government leaders, but said the students would NOT have to leave campus – just no in-person classes.
Is that still the plan? To me, that is a very important question for incoming freshmen because of all the academic support resources available on campus. If they force students to move out, they will lose a lot of those resources.
If you scroll all the way to the bottom of the plan you will see the dates. I am guessing the long move in is for both social distancing and testing. Considering they are taking days to get results back, this should be interesting. Three football players already tested positive. How many people did they infect between the test and the result??? Hopefully no one, but yikes what a mess.
I am sure it will be an appointment based system for move in. Hopefully, you will get to choose and they wouldn’t make freshman just sit for several weeks, but it might be necessary- they make up the majority of housing. D18 will put it off as long as possible. We were adding it up and it’s over 8,000 tests for just housing, so yes I believe move in will start August 8.
Typically, there is only about two weeks of classes/ exams after Thanksgiving. We laugh when we drop D18 off at the airport and I say- see you in 10 days. I don’t think they will kick kids out, but many won’t bother to come back for such a short period of time. I think UCF would prefer kids stay home, but that doesn’t mean they have to. That’s a good question about support services, probably needs to be asked. Perhaps that could be remote as well???
Thanks. I know they had a number of groups who were allowed to get early move-in anyway, but it’s hard to guess whether this is a big change or not.
I guess we’ll know when we know.
The other date I didn’t like much there was the July 1 advice on which classes were going to be in-person. We are already registered with a PERFECT schedule, and only one online course. If she’s going to have to take most of her classes online, I’m not sure what sense it makes to even go up to the campus.
We will probably just stay home and do everything online, and save $6,000 on dorms (Fall + the Summer which is required at Towers). If a lot of students do that, UCF is going to have a huge hole in their budget.
If they stick to the current schedule, it’s only one week this year. They return on Nov 30 and Finals start Dec 7.
The President of UCF said they would not be required to leave, but of course all of this is subject to change.
I’ve discussed it with my daughter and she thinks she would be able to concentrate better and study better up there. It would be pretty disruptive, I think, to go through an entire semester studying in a certain pattern and place, and then have to completely change that the week before Finals.
D18 took a survey a couple of weeks ago that asked what she would do if most of her classes went online. It would be hard to justify paying for housing if you don’t have to go to class. In D18’s experience, online classes = self teaching and with being OOS I’m not in the mood to pay that price for her to read a text book and teach herself! She would drop classes.
I don’t even want to think about what will happen if my kid has to quarantine. My hope is that all classes will have a zoom component for the lectures. Which is funny, since UCF basically killed that kind of learning a couple of years ago- seems like that was a mistake!
My concern for freshman is that this could be a very isolating experience this Fall. Online classes may sound great, but staying in your room all day is not good for your mental health.
Fall 2020 Move-in Dates
Fall move-in will occur by appointment from August 8-23.
Move-in appointment signup will open in late July or early August. Residents will be emailed instructions on this process.
I will say, some of D’s roommates would love to go back today, so maybe there will be a lot of kids going for that Aug. 8th date!
My sympathies to the freshman and their parents. While this whole Covid-19 thing is hard on everyone, I hate that everything is so unknown for all of you. D18 can move herself in if needed, and has already lived there.
Yeah, and the uncertainty is difficult because the Class of 2020 has already endured canceled graduations, canceled proms, canceled senior trips, abruptly closed schools and not being able to see their friends or say goodbye to teachers they love.
My daughter’s class hasn’t even received their yearbooks yet, and won’t get them until July. And then they won’t have any opportunity to meet and sign them.
I received a little bit of info on move-in appointments from another parent today.
Whenever move-in appointments become available, we will be contacted and will be given a choice of available dates and times. So that’s way better than Housing assigning dates without any input from us.
My friend asked when that would occur, and the Housing rep said, “Not yet!” and HUNG UP ON HER!
My daughter’s roommate group leader did their room selection this morning and did a great job. They got Tower 4, which is what they wanted, and she made a smart choice for the specific room.
Now we just have to find out about move-in. I’m going to email Housing and I’ll post whatever I find out.
For move out, it opened up all at once and you just went in and picked a day and time. In some ways it would make sense to have a room/suite/apartment move in at one time. Test them all and clear or isolate them, but to coordinate that between roommates could cause trouble. It will be interesting to see how UCF handles it.
I emailed housing a few days ago asking about how the appointments will be allocated since we are coming from OOS and already have booked flights. They said that information will be released later.
Yes, late July/early August. You will be given choices.
If the choices don’t work for you, I’d bet they will work with you since you are coming from OOS and booked flights based on THEIR info on when move-in would be.
I got answers to my questions from Housing, and here’s what I found out;
They will be sending emails, supposedly in late July/early August, giving dorm residents a scheduled appointment to select their move-in date and time.
2, Each individual student will have a move-in date and time – we will NOT move in by roommate GROUPS.
I also emailed them back telling them they needed to make accommodations for OOS families because those parents need to schedule time off from work, book flights, hotels, and rental cars and a lot more.
Florida parents have similar issues, but it’s much different when you’re flying in.
My son just received room selection appointment from UCF Housing. He was 12-19-2020 confirmed, and his appointment is this Friday at 11am. His confirmation date is fairly early, so hoping for good available selections, including Converted Single (rooms for two that are being made available for one, with a shared bathroom with one other person).
My son received yesterday his emailed invitation from Housing to make appointment for move-in (Lake Claire). Web site was a little buggy (would appear to be stuck and require page refresh, or navigation to portal home page and try again) but the process was under ten minutes. Earliest appointments (seven days a week) are 9am. They appeared to be disappearing fast; this is not unexpected as the purpose is to minimize the number of people per building and floor at one time. I reasonably expect only one person moving in per suite at a time. While the appointments are for two hour windows, Housing emphasizes that you are not expected to move in within the window, it’s just the start time student’s COVID-19 test and onboarding is to occur within.
D18 was also able to make her move-in appointment yesterday for Rosen. It seemed the appointments in the 1st week and then the ones right before classes start were in high demand and going fast.
We made our move-in appointment for Towers yesterday without any problem, and my daughter’s roommate did as well. A friend was having glitch problems this morning.
For Towers, it looks like they’re only permitting three move=in appointments per floor in a two hour period. I assume smaller buildings are more restrictive.
But that appointment actually is NOT for move in. It’s to start the process with the covid test over at health services. Once that is complete, you go to your dorm to get your ID and begin the actual move-in.
I have not seen any time limit for the actual move-in, but I believe once the parents leave for the day, we are not allowed to return inside the dorm after that day. Communication and info from Housing has been the weak link in the system so far.
Be aware that all members of your party MUST wear masks, indoors or outdoors, at all times while on campus – and you provide your own mask. Students will be issued a free mask once they get to their dorm, but everybody must have one and wear it at Health Services.