<p>The housing site says that if you turned in your $25 much later than everyone else, you get placed in late-application triples, or if those run out, then you're placed in non-air-conditioned rooms.
Anyone have any idea of how late that is for this to happen? Waiting until acceptance, waiting until weeks after acceptance, etc?</p>
<p>If I had to guess it would be 3-4 week after acceptances. Even paying now will probably get you a temporary triple or maybe if you’re lucky and end up with a double.</p>
<p>what about if i just applied a couple hours ago? i just got accepted today.</p>
<p>b3, you may need to start looking for off campus housing. Just because we (transfers) applied for housing does not mean we are garunteed anything, not unless they’ve sent you a housing contract. Transfers apparently have a low chance of getting housing to begin with, so if you just applied yesterday the chances are that much lower since priority goes by the date of your application.</p>
<p>Sorry, just got some new information from the housing office. They say that as long as you filled out an application and paid the $25, and as long as you were admitted, you WILL be offered on campus housing. </p>
<p>It may not be your preference, as you may get a double or temporary triple room. But apparently everyone who pays the $25 application fee and is admitted will be offered a housing contract.</p>
<p>SeanCris,</p>
<p>That includes transfer students ^^^???</p>
<p>Yes, according to the woman I spoke with and asked in an email from the housing department.</p>
<p>[Frequently</a> Asked Questions - UF | Housing & Residence Education](<a href=“http://www.housing.ufl.edu/faqs/]Frequently”>http://www.housing.ufl.edu/faqs/) has some interesting information about the whole process. How your application date stacks up depends entirely on how everyone else applied.</p>
<p>I personally think the dorms at UF (Except a couple of the nice ones) are very dungeon-like. If you have the chance you should look around and way your options, it’s pretty telling that by far most students choose to leave campus after living there a year.</p>
<p>If I get on campus housing (which according to the person I spoke to, I will when I’m accepted), then I’ll definitely stay for the first year and I’m sure I’ll be very likely to move off-campus for the following year.</p>
<p>It just seems like a big jump, coming from community college and living at home and having to live off-campus and rely on public transportation to get you to school and back. Living on campus, even in less comfortable conditions, seems like the right move for someone living away from home for the first time, IMO.</p>
<p>I mean the public transportation receives the lions share of it’s budget from the university, so most the routes are essentially 95% students. Many of the “student apartment” places are bordering on 100% students as well, so it’s a pretty similar experience. I know you want to stay on campus, and that’s your decision, but maybe one of the other transfers will see the light and go for better housing that’s cheaper and isn’t just tons of naive freshmen.</p>
<p>SeanChris, there are also some choices within walking distance of campus, that you won’t have to rely on public transportation. Check out Jefferson 2nd Ave, University House, the Trimark Properties, Wildflower, there are more. </p>
<p>My daughter as a freshman is in Jefferson and is happy there and has resigned for next year.</p>
<p>So staying on campus is a bad idea for a transfer student?? ^^</p>
<p>My friends have told me how horrible the dorms are, but I still want to live on campus for at least the summer term to meet people I really click with.
I graduated from high school last june, so I figured alot of the people staying on campus for summer A will be last year’s freshmans, people my age.</p>
<p>Or should I just find something off campus?</p>
<p>tzais01, thanks for the information. I will look into those places, although I have looked into places from Trimark like Windsor Hall and I really wasn’t impressed with the rooms or the location. </p>
<p>eddy, one of the reasons that I want to stay on campus as a freshman is the transportation issue. I realize that the RTS system is very good in Gainesville, but I don’t think anyone wants to take a bus home at night every night (or walk home at night). It seems like a safety issue, especially if that person is a female or living alone for the first time. And if you’re not going home at night, that means you’re not using the library as much as I plan on using it. Taking a 6:00 bus home would probably mean leaving the library by 5:30, which, if you have 5 hours of class per day will only give you 4 hours of study time at the library before eating, etc. This would really cut down on study time due to the safety issue of taking the public transportation system at night or walking home at night on a daily basis. I’ve also heard of students missing midterms/final exams due to the buses being unreliable, which would obviously be unnacceptable. </p>
<p>So anyway those are some of the issues I’m weighing in deciding where to live. I realize that the conditions are much better off campus (generally), and that the cost should be about equal. Those are other things to consider. We’ll see what happens. I hope more people weigh in with their opinions, we transfers don’t have any information to go on other than the sales pitches that we get when touring and the opinions of students/alum.</p>
<p>Eddy, staying there for the summer may be a fair compromise, I bet after you stay there for a couple months you will realize why I keep saying to move somewhere else.</p>
<p>SeanCris, I didn’t even realize you were a girl and wasn’t really thinking about the safety issue. I can definitely understand where you’re coming from, I havn’t noticed anything personally (I mean the bus stop is well lit, I’m safe on the bus, then there’s usually at least 5 people who get off at my stop, all students). But I’m not a girl so I can see why that would be a concern for you. Now I’m kinda curious asking some of my female friends how they deal with all that. Maybe on-campus is really best for you until you’re acclimated to the city.</p>
<p>I guess if you chose to go off campus you’d just have to look at bus stop location and how many people live there. I’ve only lived at mega-complexes where there’s always a bunch of people coming and going, so the busstop is right in front of the place, and I’ve never been alone.</p>
<p>^^^
My d’s a freshman living off-campus her first year, and she rides the bus. But if she goes in for an evening test or something she makes arrangments for one of her roommates to pick her up, or she drives into campus and parks. You can park most places after 4:30pm. She’s had no incidents that have given her pause. She even comes home between classes if she has a few hours, at least she did last semester. This semester her classes are closer together so she pretty well stays on campus. But she does spend a lot of time on-campus in the evenings, like to attend Cru or hang out at the intramural fields … and she just drives or one of her roommates drives.</p>
<p>zebes</p>
<p>@ Zaersz, lol no I’m not a girl. My sister is going to college as well next year and that’s one of my main concerns for her, and I wasn’t sure if eddy was a girl so I just figured I’d bring it up as something to think about. I’m a pretty big guy so I’m not particularly concerned for my own safety, but everyone can get mugged, etc. and I’m no match for a pistol. I guess my family is just very safety conscious and the understanding is that if you’re traveling alone you don’t do things like wait for a bus/walk home from a bus (or campus) at night by yourself, it doesn’t matter how big you are. I realize not everyone has this attitude, I guess it’s just the way I was raised.</p>