<p>Does anyone know when IU notifies future freshmen about dorm assignments? I submitted my housing app at the end of december, but will I still have to wait until summer to find out?</p>
<p>Anyone have any experience with this?</p>
<p>i emailed and asked but got a confusing answer. (son applied for residence scholars community )and got an email reply that said, he would know fairly soon if accepted BUT would not hear until may or june if he actually got it as his dorm assignment?? had hoped we would know for sure before may 1 as need to know cost wise.</p>
<p>IU doesn’t send out dorm assignments until June. I know my daughter knew by early/mid June which dorm she was in, but didn’t know her roommate assignment until August. Consider IU has to wait until after the May 1 acceptance date to really start assigning rooms/dorms/floors and are doing so for at least 7000 students. parent56, I could be wrong about this, but I think if he is accepted into the residence scholars community he will be on one of those dorm floors with reduced rates.</p>
<p>parent56, your son will likely get a room in Residence Scholars (Ashton Johnston). The essay application is probably just a formality. It probably just has to be read by somebody and approved. When my son applied for Residence Scholars two years ago, we applied in like late December and received an e-mail only a couple of days later from the woman who made the decisions and she told him he was accepted. Of course, things are much busier this time of year, so maybe that delays the email, assuming that they still send emails as part of the process.</p>
<p>The big question is whether they still have rooms left. My son missed the renewal period for current students to reserve their same room for 2010-11, so we had to sweat out reserving the room until January 8, when any current housing resident at IU could get any available room they qualified for. So, from the end of the keep your own room reservation period in mid December or so until we reserved the room on January 8, there were exactly 27 available rooms for males. So he got his on January 8, then the availability dropped to 26 rooms. I just checked today (through the “room wish list” feature that you would use to see the list of available rooms, even if you weren’t actually planning on changing rooms), and there were still 18 rooms available for Residence Scholar males. So I would say you are pretty close to a lock to get in. Historically, these are among the last rooms at IU to be filled, despite their low cost. And, especially now that LLCs, in particular the Kelley LLC, are so popular, that these rooms will be even harder to sell. </p>
<p>Residence Scholar rooms for men are usually are still available in July, and get filled when the alternative is sleeping in a lounge somewhere. So I would not worry much about getting the room, given this fact and the other things I mentioned. The delay is probably just red tape, maybe somebody assigning rooms in batches or some other manner that is convenient to the staff. They have to assign at least 8000 rooms every year. You have applied relatively early for a very low demand room that still has a lot of vacancies as of today, so you will probably be ok.</p>
<p>And after you get notified of acceptance, if you son drives, have him apply for the D5 parking permit. Every room in Residence Scholars is within fifty yards of parking in the lot on the north side of Tenth Street, directly across from Ashton Johnston, and you son will likely be on the first floor, which is also good. It is an excellent perk, in addition to the generally great location of the dorm.</p>