Housing lottery 2014-2015

rualum
Sat, 15 Feb 2014 22:09:49 +0000

Ah forgot about Rockoff.

Yes search now for off campus housing. Otherwise they will probably end up in doubles. Not the worst if you want to stay on campus. I agree that they will not get a suite with those stats. Cook is most likely, for 4 people.

Last year, some people were put on the waitlist, but as far as I know, everyone eventually got housing.

Another thing they could do, if they don’t mind breaking up, is to search the Rutgers housing fb page, ‘class of’ fb pages, and Rutgers Roommate Gateway.

https://rutgers.roommategateway.com/user/default.aspx

Use a junk email for this site, as my son got spammed by a person or 2. He did find some roommates on there though, and things worked out well.

It is easier to find a group with a better number as a single (or even a double), and if there are other seniors in the group, he might get better housing.

If your numbers are bad you have to be motivated to look for roommates. It may not be the situation you wanted, but you can get something if you keep looking. Groups are reorganizing all the time.

I think it stinks that juniors get shut out like that. Really, the system should be all seniority. Why mix it up like they do?