<p>General Rule 3 means that if you get a spot, but then you end up not taking a full-time course load in the fall (and you haven’t arranged with the school to be treated as a full-time student even though you’re taking fewer credits than are ordinarily required to be full-time), you’ll lose your spot.</p>
<p>At some point – probably at several ponits – the registrar’s office and the housing department are going to check to see whether there is anyone taking too few credits to be considered full-time who is assigned a dorm room, and people can lose their rooms.</p>
<p>So let’s suppose that you want to take four classes, A, B, C, and D, that each is 3 credits, and that 12 is the minimum number of credits for full-time status. If A is full, but you think you can add it during the Add/Drop period, you’ll need to find a fifth class, E, to register for ahead of time. Then if you get added to A, you can drop E (but if not, you’ll end up taking classes B, C, D, and E in the fall. You’ll be full-time the whole way through. If you’d only registered for B, C, and D, intending to add A, you might have lost your space in the dorm.</p>
<p>Or let’s suppose that you are taking classes A, B, C, and D, as indicated above, but you find B much harder than you expected, and you decide that in order to protect your GPA you’ll withdraw from the class, after the Add/Drop period has ended, and therefore after you can add another class. That will make you less than full-time, and you may get kicked out of the dorm.</p>
<p>Or suppose that you decide you’d rather take Class C at the community college because it will be easier. So you register for classes A, B, and D at Towson and C at the community college. You’ll be less than full-time at Towson, and you won’t be able to stay in the dorm.</p>
<p>That’s what General Rule 3 means.</p>
<p>You seem to be making reference to something outside of General Rule 3, though, when you bring up being a sophomore. It sounds as if you’re worried that because you will be relying on transfer credits you won’t be able to get into the dorm. Do you have to be a sophomore/have accumulated 30 credits in order to live in this particular dorm? If you do, then there are only 2 ways that doing things the way you are doing them would be able to hurt you. First, you might not be able to get enough credits to transfer; second, they might not show up on your record in time to count before the move-in date. </p>
<p>If you are worried about those being problems, you don’t want to talk to Housing; you want to talk to the Registrar. And if I were you and I had doubts, I would go there in person with whatever paperwork the community college gave you to confirm that you are registered in your classes there, and ask (a) will I get credit for all of these? (b) when will my transcript reflect those credits? and (c) will I have official sophomore standing in time to live in this particular dorm that requires me to be a sophomore? Then if there’s a problem, you can ask what, if anything, you can do to solve that problem.</p>
<p>Again, I’m not sure if this is even an issue; I’m just wondering because you said “… if I’m a sophomore next year I should be fine …” But if it is an issue, it has nothing whatsoever to do with General Rule 3. General Rule 3 is only about you needing to be a full-time student at the time that you live in the dorm.</p>
Now I’m freaking out. Thanks though.</p>