<p>I'm not sure whether we need to accept ucla's offer before we are able to reserve housing, please help!</p>
<p>No, you don’t. Housing for first-years is on a lottery basis. </p>
<p>However, if you’re dead-set on getting a plaza instead of a hall (or something like that), it might help to apply for housing soon. Again, if you don’t really care where you’ll placed, it doesn’t matter.</p>
<p>Don’t worry about applying earl, as there is absolutely no advantage to doing so.</p>
<p>The nature of a lottery is that it is not run until the deadline has passed, so registering the last minute possible is no different from registering the moment it comes out.</p>