<p>SO--what exactly do you do on midnight on Dec 8? You log on--where exactly? Status update? Or will it be right in front of your face? And if you are accepted, everyone says you click something to get a housing number. What exactly does this mean? Thanks everyone!</p>
<p>If you log onto your account now, there is an area that says that your application is under review. On december 8th, if you go to that same exact area, it will tell you if you are accepted, deferred, or rejected. Also i remember last year that they posted the decisions a few hours early, so i would definitely start checking earlier that night! There will also be a link to sign up for housing, which you should definitely do so you can get a good dorm. Good luck!</p>
<p>Thanks! And if its deferred, do they explain why or what you need to do next?</p>
<p>No problem! 
they don’t state why, it just says that your application is on review again until march, which sucks. 
my best friend got deferred and she had a 4.0 and a 28 on the act and 1950 on the sat. Her reading score was below 22 and you needed a 23 or something like that. She retook them and got the higher score and was admitted! As long as you have the requirements, you should be good. What are your stats?</p>
<p>Its my daughter, actually, and her test scores are not good, especially compared to what I read on here! She only had a 25 composite on the ACT, though she did get a 31 on the reading section. She did make the minimum though. She has a 3.9 weighted GPA, and her dad graduated from there. She is in the top 9% of her class, had several AP/DE classes, several varsity sports, class vice president. We actually visited this weekend and the admissions guy said she looks competitive but that it depends on the competitiveness of the class as a whole. He also said that he really highly doubts she will be rejected but she might have to start in the summer. I can’t imagine an admissions guy exagerrating, why would he do that?</p>
<p>She sounds solid but I guess you never know. Last year the decisions started coming out around 7pm, if I remember. As soon as you know she is accepted, then go into the Housing link and apply for housing. It is all about your priority number and that sets the housing stage for your entire college career. Lucky for us, we had read on here about going onto Housing first and seeing if there was a deposit due. If so, then you have been accepted. It’s the back door approach but got us a terrific head start to a low priority number. This CC website has been a wonderful tool for my family! Good Luck!</p>
<p>That’s funny about the housing, I’ll be checking that too. My daughter wanted some of her friends who also applied to sleep over and everyone check together, but I don’t think that’s a good idea. There could be hard feelings.</p>
<p>Start checking about 6-7 pm for an admission deposit due on the accounts page. That shows up for some of those admitted a few hours before the actual admit info. If you show an admissions deposit due, that is an admission. The admission info sometimes starts loading at 7pm but trickles in up until midnight. In years past, housing did not go live until right at midnight. If you can get all the way to listing which dorm you want, you also know you are in. Some check housing before admissions right at midnight. Then sign up right away to get a number. You can go back in anytime to change dorm choices. Housing sing in here <a href=“https://cfprd.oti.fsu.edu/dsa/housing.cfm?go_url=https://nwrdc.fsu.edu:1204/fsysrr98[/url]”>https://cfprd.oti.fsu.edu/dsa/housing.cfm?go_url=https://nwrdc.fsu.edu:1204/fsysrr98</a></p>
<p>PS the sleepover might get touchy. I still remember when, at about 6pm D had a deposit due. We had no idea at the time if that was a SURE THING for admission. So she called around to friends by 9pm when she was going crazy. It was a slight reach for her SAT wise, although she had the GPA and the extra curriculars and such. Two or three friends also had a deposit due, one did not. The friend who did not was deferred for priority admission. Then she was waitlisted for regular admission. She eventually got in off the waitlist for summer, finding out about June 1. But had they all been together, it would have been difficult for her, and for all of them.</p>
<p>A sleepover would be a bad idea. It’d be like when the list is posted on the wall in high school for the girls picked for the cheerleading team; it gets really ugly when the non-pickees start bawling and everyone starts melting down. At a sleepover you might have to suffer through the whole night with any girls not getting into FSU. Too, do yourself a favor and don’t room with any high school buddies; you’ll be fighting within a week and may end up losing your friend–familiarity breeds contempt!</p>
<p>I agree - kind of a stressful time…not a party atmosphere…unless everyone get in.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the tips and advice, I’d already told her no on the sleepover!! Especially since one of the applicants is her ex-boyfriend.</p>
<p>If I get in, should I sign up for housing even though I still will not know where I will go, just in case I do infact go to FSU?</p>
<p>The housing deposit for FSU is $225.00. If you inform FSU housing (in writing) that you will not be attending FSU, prior to May 1, 2011, you will receive a refund of $175.00 (they keep $50.00). If there is any chance that you will attend FSU, you are better off paying the deposit on the day of your acceptance. Your housing priority number stays with you for four years and can make a huge difference in which dorm you get.</p>
<p>The problem is that I don’t have $50 to just throw out the window if I don’t go to FSU. If I apply for housing later (say March) is it likely that I will get it? I do not have to be in a suite or anything, a typical residence hall style living arrangement would be fine. The thing that worries me is that FSU housing isn’t guaranteed for freshmen.</p>
<p>Look at posts here on the FSU board from this spring. On campus housing is now so popular, that even with the opening of Degraf and Wildwood, last year there were freshman who did not get housing at all. They were ones who did not sign up for housing until March. The newest wing of Wildwood will not be done until fall of 2012. While it is upperclass apartments, it will open up more freshman housing as upperclassmen do stay for sophomore year in Wildwood and Landis and Gilchrist especially. I used to say just wait. But last year there were def students who did not get housing.</p>
<p>Here is one thread I found from a dad whose D did not get housing <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/florida-state-university/941996-help-freshman-denied-campus-housing.html?highlight=housing[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/florida-state-university/941996-help-freshman-denied-campus-housing.html?highlight=housing</a></p>
<p>If you can’t afford off campus living…then you better get your deposit in as quick as you can…I have a kid who is off campus and wishes that was on campus …due to buses are always crowded…parking is a nightmare if you have to drive in…and if you not from Florida…then you rolling the dice on your roommates. Some will be going to TCC , FAMU or some other local school…that’s how campus quads do. They do lousy job of matching you with someone of same interest…all they look at is RENT$.</p>
<p>you might be able to put it off until right before the second set of admissions go out…but agree with everyone else–met some people at my son’s orientation who’s child got denied housing and they were looking at the places near campus and even some of them were full</p>
<p>It is definitely worth the risk of $50 to be guaranteed housing. My friend from out of state didn’t get housing and has only met me and my friends (I met her at orientation). She even wants to live on campus next year. I got deferred and accepted at the end of March, and put my deposit down right away. My priority number was in the 5000s, which was good enough for me to get a dorm, just not a very nice one. I applied for some living learning communities and I now live in Bryan, which is on the east side of campus and is really nice. All you have to do is take a one-hour colloquiam once a week for the first semester (just listen to different departments and professors speak) and take a class each semester in the dorm (which is REALLY convenient). I know many people in here who were denied housing the first time, found out about our learning community, and got in a week before school started. So living-learning communities are always a possibility. =)</p>
<p>What is $50? Two pizzas…with a lot of toppings? Pay the money, it is an investment in your future. You will be partying in Wildwood next September and you will not miss the $50… As an added bonus, with your favorable priority number and assignment to Wildwood, you do not need to buy a meal plan!</p>