<p>UNC-Chapel Hill's listed room and board fees for students who choose to live off-campus confuse me. This is what I'm looking at: The</a> Office of Scholarships & Student Aid at UNC-Chapel Hill . </p>
<p>Can anyone expound upon the data listed in that table and make it clear enough for me to understand?</p>
<p>Just consider the room fee ($5,408 annually). That’s the regular rate for a double with A/C in a residence hall on campus. Remember these are estimates, so they include the the regular, most common rates in the cost of attendance. Were you choose to live in an apartment on campus for instance, let’s say Odum Village, that would be $5,620. Or in a single dorm, $6,230. </p>
<p>If you want to live off campus, assuming you have financial aid, that unused money ($5408, or half per semester) you’ll get as a refund to do with it as you please, pay for rent, etc.</p>
<p>The board fee refers to meal plans mostly, that’s separate, since you can get a meal plan even if you live off campus. And there are different options and combinations of meal plans, you dont actually have to spend the whole 3,898. Or maybe you’ll spend more, depends on you. </p>
<p>If you want to live off campus, then do not fill out the housing application. If you do fill out the application and decide you dont want to live on campus afterwards, then you’ll have to pay a $200 cancellation fee.</p>
<p>That’s the way I understand this. But I’m starting in the fall, so I’m not the voice of experience here. Hope someone corrects me if I’m wrong ;)</p>
<p>Here are the rates for all on campus housing options in case you wanna know.</p>
<p>[2010-2011</a> Rates | UNC Chapel Hill Housing and Residential Education](<a href=“http://housing.unc.edu/rates/2010-2011-rates.html]2010-2011”>http://housing.unc.edu/rates/2010-2011-rates.html)</p>
<p>Thanks for clearing all that up for me. For what it’s worth, I hope you’re right; the situation being as you described it would benefit me greatly.</p>