am i screwed in housing?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>Dear FPF Student,</p>

<p>In our first group of FPF housing offers, we reached lottery #198 for women and #191 for men. If you do not already know your lottery number, you can call our office to get it. The first offer round was larger than in the past few years, and the acceptance rate was also unusually high.</p>

<p>We emailed continuing students and urged them to request to cancel by next week, but cancellations are not coming in as quickly as we expected. We will still make more offers at some point, but it is taking longer than we thought to get openings, so if you are concerned or have a high lottery number we recommend that you start looking into your off-campus housing options. The Cal Rentals department will be happy to help you and you can reach them by emailing <a href="mailto:homeinfo@berkeley.edu">homeinfo@berkeley.edu</a> or visiting their website at calrentals.berkeley.edu.</p>

<p>In the residence halls, our Theme Programs have some openings – the African American, Asian Pacific American, Casa Magdalena Mora and Native American Theme Programs still have vacancies they need to fill immediately! Our other programs (Global Environment, Unity, and Women in Science & Engineering) maintain waitlists and take applications on a rolling basis. If you are interested in a Theme Program space please contact us for more information.</p>

<p>Our Unit Quad spaces have all been claimed, but we are still collecting a wait list for them if you are interested and have not signed up already. A Unit Quad is a study room converted to house 4 students of the same gender, who will then be moved to regular spaces in the residence halls as they become available after move-in weekend. To join the wait list please email us with “Unit Quad” in your subject line.</p>

<p>If you have already decided to live off-campus for the fall please notify us so that we can help students in need more quickly, and let us know if you need to have your application switched over to the Spring 2010 semester. Housing offers for the spring will begin in November.</p>

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<p>oh and how are those theme programs, I’m not any of those ethnicities so I’m sort of skeptical about choosing them.</p>

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<p>from your username I can infer you are also Indian.</p>

<p>We, Indians, are Asians, so you aren’t “not any of those ethnicities”.
Also, you are allowed to sign up for any theme program regardless of ethnicity.</p>

<p>Monday morning, you probably ought to call the housing office and try to get into one of those theme programs</p>

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<p>alright alright, I don’t want to argue but how is that extra class I have to take? I’m for it and all because I hear my FPF classes are significantly easier than regular Berkeley classes so I wouldn’t mind it as long as it doesn’t consume a large amount of time.</p>

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<p>APATH requires Asian American Studies 20A unless I am mistaken. Assuming you can still get a spot in APATH, all you have to do is call the FPF people and get one of your classes swapped with AsAmS 20A.</p>

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<p>Heard from a friend the african america one is not too much PLUS their housing is top floor of the Unit 1 mini-suites – can’t beat that! I have a black friend who was in the asian themed housing and liked it just fine. I did themed housing first year and the class we took was one day a week and you didn’t really have to do anything except show up.</p>

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<p>1 more question, do the theme programs cost more money or is it the same since I’m living in the units?</p>

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<p>You pay the same amount anyone with the same type of dorm pays.</p>

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<p>How is that weekly seminar that everyone must do in the program? I have an 80% probability of going through with it and applying to the program right now.</p>

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<p>not sure much about the seminar, as I have never been in a theme program myself</p>