<p>Ok, so here’s the deal: I’m starting at college in January (graduated early today from high school.) However, I never got the information to apply for housing like I was supposed to. I thought this was odd, but I wasn’t aware that they would be sending extra information and so I did not explicitly ask Residence Life about the lack of an application. However, in my emails with Residence Life, they never mentioned I was missing an application or anything - only that information would go out this week. The University is officially on Christmas break until January 2nd, the day before move-in, so my emails and calls won’t be answered until then. My question is: will the school have a dorm room available? I know I can’t be picky, but I just need ANY room. Freshmen are actually required to live on campus at this school, so I’m not sure how this was overlooked.</p>
<p>No one on CC knows the answer to your question. You need to contact your school to find out. Hopefully they arranged everything in the background and just did not communicate it very well. Even if they did mess up a student without a room is not a unique problem and they will have some way of fixing the issue.</p>
<p>Yeah, sorry I didn’t specify that I was really asking in general if colleges usually have this problem, or empty rooms to fill, etc. Wasn’t trying to specifically get answers about this school haha! Just need someone to calm my nerves I guess because I am REALLY freaking out.</p>
<p>I don’t know of any colleges that start back so early in January. Most don’t go back until mid to late. What school is this that goes back so quickly? You might actually have more time…</p>
<p>It’s Winthrop University in South Carolina. Classes do start pretty early - January 7th (same day as most high schools around here.) It would be nice if they started later!</p>
<p>I think they do have open rooms. People graduate early, some people got poor grades and will not be returning. There is a fair chance.</p>
<p>I go to a school with major housing shortages (USC in Columbia, actually), and we always have housing available in the spring.</p>
<p>People graduate in December. People drop out of college. People study abroad in the spring. There’s almost always a few rooms open in the spring.</p>
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I think schools on the quarter system resume classes earlier in January. I go to a UC and school starts again in Jan. 7</p>