<p>If you've been accepted at UNC already, can you pay a nonrefundable housing deposit and apply for housing at UNC BEFORE you officially say "yes" to your admission? We have done this for DS#2 at another university where he's been accepted and would like to do this for him at UNC, too, if it's possible. It's gonna be a while before he's made up his mind, but it sure would be nice to get a "place in line" reserved for him re: Carolina's housing, b/c I think there's a strong probability that UNC will end up being his choice.</p>
<p>Congrats to another atlanta heel.
i don't think this school allows that. your deposit as i recall has to be posted on the site and only then do you get a link to sign up for housing. you can get your deposit back for enrollment back by may 1 if you change your mind so.....you can go ahead and do it that way, uga allows you to go ahead and get housing long before enrolling.</p>
<p>Thanks Atlmom, and congrats to you too! :-)</p>
<p>We actually did the housing deposit for DS#2 at UGA, but UGA has dropped to a clearcut 2nd place now that he's heard from UNC. Hubby and I do think he'll end up choosing UNC, but we could be wrong -- he still has at least two schools to hear from that really excite him. </p>
<p>If I'm understanding what you're saying, I did read the UNC website correctly and at UNC he'd have to say "yes" before we could put down the housing deposit -- right? I have a little queasiness about doing that since he hasn't made up his mind yet, but I guess the question is, should I be queasy about it? I mean, is it kosher to say "yes" even though we know there's a possibility he'd say "no" later? I suppose that's what he would do, really, if he had to respond somewhere by May 1 and yet was still waitlisted at another college that was his preferred choice. Still, this kinda feels like a different situation to me. </p>
<p>What do you think, folks? Would it be ethically and morally acceptable for my son to say "yes" to UNC now, put down a housing deposit, and change his mind before May 1??</p>
<p>Doesn't UNC do all their housing at the same time, after the May 1 deadline? In other words, I don't think it matters if the housing deposit goes in now or in May. I remember a friend's child being upset that getting admitted early did not give her a leg up in the housing lottery.</p>
<p>I think the deposit gave a leg up for the orientation dates and that was very impt for people because the earlier the orientation, they get those prized laptops and get to register earlier. They do hold class slots now for each orientation session. Snowball is right the housing goes up later.</p>
<p>I have two now at UNC a freshman and a junior (who actually finishes a degree this semester and is going for two) and I am a double UGA grad. I actually wish this last child had gone to UGA and she is a little on the fence here. She is less outgoing though and has had a harder time being that far away. But, either way it is a great school and has great opportunities and as I say, when your there you're there.</p>
<p>College choices are very difficult to really know what is right for you.....and you learn alot by jumping into it.</p>
<p>Atlmom, thanks so much for the input. I really do hope your DD is adjusting well and I've no doubt she'll be happy at UNC, even if it takes a bit of time for her to adjust. It took our older son a little while, and that surprised us because he's always been very socially at ease. But coming from Atlanta, he knew very few people there, and he was living at Granville Towers -- something he now thinks was probably a mistake, although he grew to like it a lot and stayed there 2 years, making two very close pals from there. He also had a single room (the reason for Granville in the first place), and as much as he DID benefit from that for a lot of reasons, it isolated him even more. It probably took him the better part of first semester to find his "peeps" and begin to feel that he had a real social *group]/i]. Now he's so contented that it depresses him to think about graduating, and he's trying to interest us in the Five Year Plan! <grin></grin></p>
<p>I'm a UGA grad too, and I had a wonderful time showing both my sons around Athens on their tour days. It was such an odd feeling to be standing on the Journalism school plaza where I'd stood 1,000 times, only this time with my grown sons! And it's become a great school -- in my opinion it's terribly underrated. It wouldn't bother DH or me one bit if DS#2 decided to go to UGA, but we don't think it's gonna happen. He, like his brother, wants to go OOS if possible. Now that he's in at UNC, that IS possible and I think my beloved Dawgs are gonna lose out again. Que sera sera, right?</p>