I was accepted to transfer, turned down admission offer. So panicked. Please read.

Colleges & Universities Columbia University
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<p>aCTyankee, stop. You’re making GS students look bad. We all get what you are saying, who cares who got the better deal on an apartment. </p>

<p>I’m starting GS in the fall and I neither served in the military or attended community college for the transfer. I was successful in my industry and I wanted to further my education via a tier-1 education. All this schmuck talk of “GS this” and “CC that” is dumb. Also, before I deferred I was assigned housing by Columbia on Broadway. It was like 2 blocks from the campus which is all I really care about.</p>

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<p>Well, I think it’s only fair to let prospective students know that the administration won’t always treat them as total equals. They can earn that respect from the students of course, but I wouldn’t want anyone getting the wrong impression here and then being disappointed when they show up. I’d rather the opposite, that they get an overblown picture of the downsides and then discover it’s mostly thin air.</p>

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yeah, that sounds quite nice - I’m sure it was at 600 W 113th or the like. The problem is that it’s rather unusual to get, and the competition is very high.</p>

<p>The way it works at University Apartment Housing (which handles all professor/grad student housing, and GS falls into this) is that each school gets allocated certain buildings and beds from among the general pool, and then the school determines which students UAH should fill with those beds. Most schools, after taking care of their top-priority VIP admits, then go in reverse geographic order - the people coming from farthest away get first priority, etc. I know for a fact the business, social work, and law schools do this. It wouldn’t surprise me at all to learn that GS does it, especially if you don’t need a 2BR apartment for a family.</p>

<p>So you may have really lucked out.</p>

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<p>Makes sense, I live in CA.</p>

<p>Who makes those housing decisions UAH or GS?</p>

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<p>UAH decides allocations between schools, and tells schools how many beds they have and where.</p>

<p>Except for a few schools, which hand UAH a list of students and say “you pick!”, the schools then decide which students get housing and which don’t. They tell UAH the list of Chosen Ones, and UAH executes from there.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I don’t know yet whether I’ll attempt housing through the school or just do it independently. I’m looking into their housing programs some more.</p>