<p>Help Please.</p>
<p>Student is transferring and has to attend summer school (to begin July 5). School had promised housing, now says not unavailable. School in NYC we can not find any alternative (please doent suggest checking other schools or craiglists or sublet.com, we have done that) Without summer school, schedule screwed up, any advice greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>Don’t know if you’ve already looked at this, or even the pricing/availability, but I noticed this site once when wandering around the web looking at colleges in New York:</p>
<p>[Educational</a> Housing Services](<a href=“http://www.studenthousing.org/]Educational”>http://www.studenthousing.org/)</p>
<p>I do hope that you find a solution quickly! So sorry that your family is facing this problem.</p>
<p>Go to the Undergraduate Housing office! There’s usually fellow students looking for a roommate and certainly off campus kids looking to fill spots (sometimes even at lower rates than they pay just to ensure capacity). </p>
<p>Stay on the School in this matter too. What does the acceptance letter or any formal school communication say?</p>
<p>Yes, thank you we tried them. They want 4,650 for the summer, and will not prorate for the one month we need. </p>
<p>It is difficult. D was accepted into two schools, one in NYC, one not. We prefer the one outside of NYC, even before this latest problem.</p>
<p>The formal communication was a generic housing available. D immediately applied. They are saying that housing only available for people who signed up months before D accepted.</p>
<p>So far dean has been of no help. My H and I are debating seeing if her acceptance at other school, which we like better, is still open. It is not a big school, and I dont think think this impacts any one other than tranfer students.</p>
<p>When you say “we”, are you including your D in that?</p>
<p>No, sorry to say, D wants to be in Manhattan. Dad and I want other school. This is just the icing on the cake.</p>
<p>So, am I to understand you only need this for one month? (July 5th-August 5th?)…and are sublets out of the question? because I know you said no craigslist, but there are apts for sublet for just the month…</p>
<p>sorry you are going through this at the 24th hour…</p>
<p>Rodney, beleive me, I am looking. I dont want to pay more than 1,200 for the month. Please dont laugh at me. Most of the sublets in that price range are to share an apt and I am nervous, but stil trying, thanks. </p>
<p>Its not just the inconvenience. Its that the school is less than honest with me. When I pointed out that their website said housing availalbe for summer, they said they would change it. Oh wow, that really helps sitch.</p>
<p>Go to off campus student housing and look under summer school session 2 or 3 etc. While not NYC, where rent will be higher, late comers are always advertised for.</p>
<p>huh, dont know what you mean by off campus student housing? Is that a website?</p>
<p>Does this college have other campuses where they can offer housing and your student can take their transportation to the Manhattan campus? There are a few schools that do have that option. Housing in Manhattan is notoriously difficult to get. How far are you from NYC? Can you come for a day and look at housing sublets on bulletin boards at some of the schools? Often there are short term openings listed. My son just rented his place for a 6 week period.</p>
<p>I totally agree with your frustration (and certainly not laughing at you!!)…I actually thought that NYC colleges guarantee housing opportunities for kids who sign up for summer classes? or does it depend on availability at the time of registration?</p>
<p>some of the sublets I happened to have saved (in case my junior D changed her mind about living home) were in that price range and ALL young, professional females in doorman buildings…</p>
<p>Also when they say housing is available, it doesn’t mean 100% available.</p>
<p>Call Manhattan College. They often have apartments available. In fact, taking a course there would probably be cheaper and fully transferable.</p>
<p>Maybe NYU doesn’t have both an on-campus housing office and an organized off-campus housing one, but I’d look into it since NYU is so big. Basically an off-campus housing office acts as a Qaulity Assurance checker for their students. But of course perhaps NYU doesn’t offer this.</p>
<p>Cpt they changed website after I complained. The wording was such was that it was housing was available for all, singles limited.</p>
<p>They have another campus, but as they are out of space too (as they rent out to conferences, etc)</p>
<p>Giver, not NYU</p>
<p>We have run into this. We signed up for housing since the summer catalogue said housing was available. The person I talked to at the housing office said, yeah, yeah, of course housing is available, no problem. </p>
<p>What happened in our case is that kids who signed up for earlier summer terms only, initially sometimes stick around for the next terms, signing up later so they don’t have to move out, and if they don’t there is not enough housing. The housing office does not have the muscle or the desire to do evictions, so they are stuck. However, in our case, at the very last minute, a bed opened up. Otherwise we were going to cancel the session. Were about to cancel anyways, but, yes, someone dropped the course and moved out at the last minute. The problem is that you can’t count on that. </p>
<p>I’m sorry this is happening, Kayf, but it happens at a lot of schools where housing is in short supply.</p>
<p>I really wish D would go to other school. What kills me is their attitude.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure I know which school you mean. And I’m sorry you got someone with the attitude. All I can tell you is that I’ve had similar problems and not just with that school. Both my older guys had horrible housing issues at their colleges. I’ve been holding my breath with this one that he would get something decent, and it looks good. And as I said earlier, we too, got shut out of housing for summer programs. Most of them do not guarantee housing though they often have housing for most kids, is what we discovered. I’ve met so many people who ended up in the same situation at a number of colleges. They don’t hire very good people for housing offices is my conclusion.</p>