Room Preferences 2014 Freshman Housing Application Issues

Balthezar
Tue, 04 Feb 2014 01:06:30 +0000

So, the UC housing application opened today at 4pm, and I was on it at 4pm and one second. Applied, paid and will scan in the signature page tomorrow morning. My impressions of the online application are not favorable. First, the ominous warning that the application must be completed in a single online session indicates poor design with data saved in a flat file format one "page at a time as opposed to a true database-based application that allows you to use several online sessions to complete and update your information prior to submitting the required portions of the app.

Critically, my daughter was not able to enter her housing preferences…isn’t that the main function of the first-come first-serve application process? Was it something we did wrong? Has anyone else out there run into the lack of an ability to be able to enter room preferences? Not a good experience with the housing IT function here. I hope that it isn’t indicative of poor university administrative functionality overall.