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).