Freshman housing deposit

bamagirls
Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:39:44 +0000

See post #11 by UA Housing. It should explain the new guidelines.

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-alabama/1432043-freshman-deposit-honors-housing.html

This is a repost from the thread:

Hi there!
I’d like to shed a little bit of light on a few of the comments posted in this thread.

Yes, the January 1 deadline is a change to our policy, but hopefully will help us communicate more realistic expectations for our students. What we’ve found over the past couple of years is that students who apply much after January realistically will not find enough space for themselves AND any potential roommates in the same room. Then these students feel misled that they were told they could pick roommates and couldn’t get enough space. This change will help us communicate to students who apply after January 1 that it’s possible that they won’t get the opportunity to pull in a roommate.

But fear not! All is not lost on January 2!!

The housing application will change after the Jan. 1 deadline to allow those student who apply later to give Housing some preferences:

there will be up to 3 fields to indicate roommate preferences with name and CWID if you already know who you’d like to live with, but missed the Jan 1. deadline.

there will be a place to rank your housing preferences by housing style: Traditional, Apartment, Suite-Style or Honors Housing.

We will NOT automatically place all Honors student into Honors Housing as many of them choose to live in other communities. If your student wants to live in Honors Housing, they will need to select Honors as their first choice housing preference. Please note: Student who apply for housing on January 2 or later do not need to be accepted into Honors prior to applying for Housing. They just need to be admitted to Honors College before we begin freshman room selection later in the spring (I’d say sometime in April).

Hope this helps!
Janine Gascoigne