<p>Ok so I’ve done the deposit stuff and I’m supposed to select my room thursday. What exactly am I supposed to do and is there a chance I’ve missed all the honors dorms?</p>
<p>are honors dorms guaranteed for honors students?? i would hope so, because that is one of the big draws!</p>
<p>We went in right away at seven, but I’ve been able to still search to see if things are filling up. There’s plenty of rooms still available. Many with four spaces. There are also many with three, two, or one space available. The Ridgecrest Honors, as suspected, are pretty much full, but you may find an empty space or two if you search. Plenty still available in Lakeside, Riverside East, and some still remaining in Riverside West.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>You should be able to get an honors dorm room with little difficulty. Keep checking throughout the spring if the building you want is not available. You can switch your room assignment as many times as you wish up July 2nd at 7AM Central.</p>
<p>Worried: as for the “how to” part there’s really good instructions, complete with screen shots at: [Housing</a> & Residential Communities - The University of Alabama](<a href=“http://housing.ua.edu/freshmanroomselectionguide.cfm]Housing”>http://housing.ua.edu/freshmanroomselectionguide.cfm)</p>
<p>The Honors dorms did not fill for last fall. In fact, one of my son’s roommates is not in the honors program, and he was able to grab a spot in my son’s suite in early June.</p>
<p>Honors dorms are not guaranteed to honors students. However, in recent years, all honors kids who’ve wanted them have gotten them…</p>
<p>Some kids in honors don’t want honors dorms…because of price or whatever. </p>
<p>Worried student…Pick your room…then join the Facebook class of 2014 group and use the roommate finder application. If you find some people that you want to share a suite with, then you can change rooms.</p>
<p>My son has not yet paid his enrollment and housing deposits. If he pays them now, his assigned time for room selection is in late April.</p>
<p>Would another student be able to “pull him in” as a roommate earlier than that? Or will he be totally unable to get a room assignment until late April?</p>
<p>I think once he’s paid his deposits, another student can pull him in.</p>
<p>DS spoke to some students at Capstone Scholars Day who didn’t indicate any need to rush. They didn’t pay their deposits until fairly late, and they were still able to get honors housing.</p>
<p>However, after hearing that some entire honors dorms are already full, we’re beginning to think this was bad advice. By the end of April, the pickings may be slim.</p>
<p>Maybe every suite has someone in it, but I’m sure the rooms are far from full. By then end of the night last night there were plenty individual and double spaces left…</p>
<p>I would call housing (make sure you speak to someone who’s familiar with this) and ask how long after a deposit is paid can another student pull your child into his suite.</p>
<p>Again, be sure to talk to someone who specifically knows about this…otherwise you may get an answer that the person “thinks” is right, but may not be right.</p>
<p>Just talked to housing, as many friends either just paid or haven’t paid yet. If you pay and get a roommate proxy code before Thursday evening and can get someone to pull you in who has a pick day of Thursday, your son can get in. Otherwise, he’ll have to wait until housing opens again in April, although he won’t necessarily have to wait until the last day, if he can get someone with an earlier April pick day. </p>
<p>There’s lots of spaces in Riverside West and East and the Lakeside honors, so he should be fine.</p>
<p>Also, by April, a lot of kids will have heard from their reach schools or made other decisions and withdraw their housing, freeing up some of those honors spaces. If not by April, they will probably do so before the May 1 decision date, so some spots may even open up then.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>So if it isn’t done on Thursday, then the window is closed until April? In other words, those with Thursday pick dates can’t do it on Friday or next Monday or whenever?</p>
<p>Also, for anyone who has already paid - how long does it take to get that proxy code? Can it be done by Thursday?</p>
<p>I would call housing and see if it can be given over the phone.</p>
<p>Housing told us that everyone with selection days that open in early April will only be able to pull into non honors housing. The honors kids all have the selection days this month if they paid deposits by March 1. My DS and several honors friends paid after 3/1 so their selection day is almost dead last. Housing said that if someone pulled him in now he would not be able to make any changes to his room until his late April selection date opened up. So unless he is CERTAIN he wants to live with someone he should not have them pull him in early because he will not be able to make any changes until his original date rolls around. If they have friends they want to room with and they are not all in honors they have to choose non honors housing and then the honors kids are locked out of honors housing for future years.</p>
<p>My son showed me last spring that there were several students (current freshmen) who posted on Facebook in May and June that a roommate decided on attending another school so he or she had a space (even two) in the honors dorms. So do not be worried about getting into the honors dorms.</p>
<p>If someone has picked their room, they can go back into the system when it reopens and pull someone in. My son has already picked and can go in tomorrow night and pull someone in.</p>
<p>I just called Housing to ask this question.</p>
<p>When room selection opens up again on April 20, my son can go in and pull another honors student in.</p>
<p>He will not be able to pull in a nonhonors student, as he is in honors housing.</p>
<p>My suggestion, for those of you who have missed the March 1 deadline and don’t pay and get a proxy code, or even hook up with someone, by tomorrow night, try to facebook, use roommate finder, your area rep, and contact kids you’re interested in that are in honors. If they have a free spot in their suite, which they’ll be able to check by “close of business” Thursday night, see if they can pull you in on April 20, when room selection reopens.</p>
<p>Another suggestion housing made was, if someone you don’t know puts themself in your suite before your “friend” can get in there, have your friend try to put themself on the same floor, or at least the same building. That will make it easier to do a room swap, as you’ll be doing pretty much an equal exchange, and it will be easier to contact the potential swapper and work things out from there.</p>
<p>Worse comes to worse, at least you’ll be on the same floor and can hang out more easily.</p>
<p>Good point, momreads. I am guessing that happens often, so honors kids should be able to get in honors. I was told, however, by housing, that at the very end, last case scenario, if there are open spaces in honors, that they do sometimes have to fill those spaces with nonhonors. I don’t know when that happens, but I would not wait too late to try to find an empty honors space. </p>
<p>What’s unfortunate is that sometimes kids don’t think about their potential roommates and just sign up for the other school, leaving their roommates “open” for housing to put someone in, without notifiying them.</p>
<p>I would hope that if anyone does do this, decide on another school in the end, that they would be courteous enough to inform their roommates that there will be an open space in the suite, then they’ll be free to put a backup honors roommate in there before housing randomly puts someone in that empty space. </p>
<p>And I don’t mean to imply that these kids are discourteous. I think oblivious is more the word. </p>
<p>Good luck to everyone tomorrow night!</p>