I’m sure this is a much easier question for someone that isn’t waiting on audition results that may not even come until March/April….but if your student got into multiple schools how did you handle the housing deposits so that you didn’t lose a spot? Did you narrow down the lists as you waited for other schools or did you put housing deposits that are usually non-refundable to multiple schools? As if this process wasn’t already expensive the last thing I want is to put that many deposits down especially knowing that most of the schools that matter the most won’t even give a decision until around April.
I can only speak to UNT but if you don’t get in the program, you get the deposit back:
1. Persons not admitted to UNT – If Student is denied admission to UNT, Student must notify the Housing
Assignments Office within 10 days of receiving notice of denied admission to receive full refund of all charges
and fees paid to UNT, including the Housing Application Fee and the Housing Fee Pre-Payment.
2. Persons admitted but electing not to attend UNT – If Student is admitted to UNT but elects not to attend,
Student may submit a written request to the Housing Assignments Office prior to July 1 to terminate this
Agreement and request full refund of the Housing Fee Pre-payment. Housing Application Fee will not be
refunded. Written requests received after July 1 will result in refunds as follows
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Basically 400 back if you dont get in, 350 if you choose not to go
So if he’s already gotten into UNT and say doesn’t get into the College of Music then we’d get about $350? This stuff is just so complicated lol
Based on your name, and we are not music, but we paid - I want to say four housing deposits with FSU being the highest but most of it refunded. I think also UF, UGA, and one that slips me..maybe South Carolina.
Money making for them!!!
You have to decide - some make you enroll before you can apply for housing - or to make an enrollment deposit.
Other open housing before decisions - and then you have to decide is the amount of money you’re going to lose worth it or not.
Some want a specific property…or they are FUUD (Fear Uncertainty and Doubt) into their kid won’t get housing…so they spend.’
But it’s totally an individual call. i think we wasted 4 or 500 dollars.
And there are some schools - New Mexico came up last year, FSU was one (had to be in writing) and I just read the previous poster about UNT - so some you have to formally do in writing - so follow all the rules.
But if it’s too much for you, then you have to live within budget. Schools will make you think you’ll losing housing, even those that guarantee it.
More likely is you’ll be further away or in a less desirable hall but also that’s not a certainty - because spaces open up as people drop out/change their minds as many multiple deposit in regards to housing (not admission).
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FSU is also on his list. We should hopefully know next week if he’s in or what. They already warned us when we were there for audition day that we should take care of housing as soon as it opens. It’s just that another school he got into (got into the school but not the CoM yet) and he wouldn’t even audition there until late March and by then to cancel would cost like $500+ which is INSANE to think about. I definitely can’t do that kind of “hold”
If it wasn’t, I would demand you change your screen name!!!
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you would get 400. If he gets in but you dont select UNT you can ask for 350
Got it! That makes sense. Still a lot to fork over lol This kid is going to have to dwindle down his list lol