<p>Okay, so I got admitted early to UIUC for engineering. I got into Notre Dame and am waiting on Georgetown, and plan on attending one of those, but I might still have to go to UIUC (not that that's a bad thing of course-great school). I know housing is first come first serve at UIUC, so if i accept my offer of admission, choose housing, and cancel, do I lose anything besides the non-refundable housing fee?</p>
<p>For on-campus residence halls, you make a $50 non-refundable application fee and $150 advance payment toward housing. If you cancel by May 15, you get back the $150. If you cancel after May 15, you do not and can be subject to a $2,000 settlement charge for cancelling after May 15. In other words, if you apply for housing now and then decide to go elsewhere, make sure you cancel by May 15.</p>
<p>Wow! $2,000 settlement? That's a lot! </p>
<p>It is good to know this important piece of information. </p>
<p>Thanks to Dr. Usba. :-)</p>
<p>so if i accept admission on may 1st, then most likely i will end up getting a bad dorm right?</p>
<p>So there is no penalty for accepting admission and then going to another school? Monetary or otherwise?</p>
<p>And is it too late to get decent housing (pref peabody or gregory?)</p>
<p>If you apply for housing and cancel by May 15, you still lose your $50 non-refundable housing application fee. Otherwise, there is no penalty for accepting and then withdrawing your acceptance. If you do accept and then decide to accept elsewhere, you should inform them promptly of your decision to withdraw acceptance so they can consider offering the spot to someone on the waitlist. </p>
<p>The longer you wait to make a housing application (which you cannot make until you accept offer of admission), the more chance you have of ending up in temporary housing. Thus, if you accept May 1, you risk being assigned to temporary housing -- note since you are essentially guaranteed a place in a residence hall, that temporary housing generally consists of lounges in residence halls turned into temporary rooms. The housing administration actually mentions that you can start to face the risk of temporary housing if your housing contract comes in after "March 1." See the following FAQ on residence halls: [url=<a href="http://www.housing.uiuc.edu/contact/faqs/index.asp?faq=contract#hall_assignments%5DFAQs%5B/url">http://www.housing.uiuc.edu/contact/faqs/index.asp?faq=contract#hall_assignments]FAQs[/url</a>]</p>
<p>so temporary housing is just horrible? can you explain more details about it? so we better accept our offers of admission and do our housing now even though we're still waiting for other schools?</p>
<p>Usually not horrible (with the caveat that some consider all the residence halls horrible -- none of the halls are resort residences by any means). They are often converted lounges in the residence halls which in many places were orginally rooms before they became lounges. Sometimes temporary can mean being placed in one of the grad residence halls which are actually a tad better than many of the undergrad halls. They are "temporary" as they usually get you out of them and into permanent room fairly quickly after school starts.</p>
<p>so theres no need to worry about accepting my offer of admission and sending my housing contract late(before may 1st of course) right?</p>