I am a soon to be senior and do not want any bumps in the road when applying to schools and am only realizing now how competitive it is for on campus housing. I just need a few things cleared up about housing and any info would help. I’ll say what I think I know and any more information would be awesome:
UF:
What I understand is that a few weeks after you apply to the school you can pay a 25 dollar housing thing that, if accepted, you can get on campus housing and the earlier you send in the 25 dollars the better chance you have of housing.
Fsu:
I have no idea how housing works and when you can apply and how much it costs. No matter how hard I look I can not find any info. Can you do the same thing as Uf to get a better housing or is the price a lot higher.
Usf:
Same as above
Ucf:
you can only apply for housing once admitted and are for sure attending?
Thanks, any info for all these schools would help. Also, how hard is it really to get good on campus housing if I wait to apply for housing at other schools until I hear an admission decision from Uf?
For UF- you got it. The housing applications are sent out in rounds based off when you apply- the earlier you apply for admission the early you get the housing application, and the better the chance you have of getting housing. This is really important because UF housing is usually insufficient in terms of the spaces they have vs. the number of people who apply.
For FSU you can only apply for housing once you are accepted, so make sure you apply for admission during the October round (or else you’ll end up like me with a 5000 priority number or worse). I believe the cost is $225, but you can get all but $75 back if you don’t attend.
If you apply in the first round of FSU, and have the $225, I would pay it to be safe. UF decisions come out relatively late in the scheme of things, and you don’t want to be at the tail end of FSU housing round 1. If not, it should still be okay because there are roughly 6,000 housing spots at FSU, and even if your number is 7,000 not everyone ahead of you will be attending FSU.
I don’t know about the other schools- I took a bit of a gamble and only applied to New College, FSU, and UF. (You should look into New College if you haven’t already. While I didn’t decide to go there, it certainly has its benefits).
Best of Luck!
@shelburrito yes thank you I was actually really into NcF because I heard they had great academics but when I visited the part of campus was really nice but once I went near the students I knew I didn’t want to go there. Thanks
The way FSU works is that if you are accepted during the December decision date, you are able to apply for housing whenever the university opens the application (usually mid-January). The application gives everyone a priority number and the sooner, the better.
For a quick comparison of how crazy the application has gotten: when I applied back in December 2008 as a freshman, I applied mid-afternoon the day applications opened (they opened the same minute that decisions went out, at 12:01am eastern) and my priority number was in the 500s; this year on the first date the application was available (sometime in mid-January), I’m pretty sure that the priority number was in the thousands.
Of course, FSU seems to slightly alter the way they do the application in some way each year. But this is generally how it works.