<p>Anyone know when football tickets for new students are available??</p>
<p>Available from the 16th onwards.</p>
<p>phew, I've been waiting a long time for them.</p>
<p>do we buy the tickets or does UMich provide them for us?</p>
<p>They provide you the opportunity to buy them.</p>
<p>Do they email you or send you something regarding the 16th? Is if first come first served, or are they easily gotten?</p>
<p>You should get an e-mail explaining things before then. Basically just go to the "tickets" section of mgoblue.com , register an account with your student e-mail, and there should be a student tickets section when you log back in.</p>
<p>Priority for tickets is based on class standing/number of credits, not when you send in your application (assuming you send it in by the deadline). Everybody who orders tickets on time will get them, though I don't believe there is a formal guarantee of this, and in years of high demand some freshmen might not get tickets that are located in the traditional student section.</p>
<p>That's good to know, thanks dilksy.</p>
<p>So can we sell some of our student tickets on ebay? I'd like to sell enough to get back what I paid for the season.</p>
<p>You can sell student tickets. However, you/they have to pay ~$25 to get a special sticker "validating" the ticket if it's going to be used by a non U of M student (you have to show your student ID at the gates if you're using an unvalidated student ticket). Basically this is just to ensure that only U of M students are benefiting from the discounted student price for tickets. This makes it pretty hard to sell tickets for some of the crappier games (where a non-student might be able to pick up tickets on the street for less than the cost of validation), but usually isn't a problem when selling tickets to games like Notre Dame/Penn State/Michigan State/Ohio State. You might want to try and find somebody who has the same plan as you and join a seating group with them. You should be able to fetch a little more selling a pair of tickets together than you would by doing it alone.</p>
<p>When freshmen get their tickets, are they seated randomly? (Would they be seated in a section with other freshmen, or is that just too complicated logistically considering how huge the stadium is.)</p>
<p>The students take up about 5-7 sections, all the way up, in one of the corners. It's divided up so the freshmen/people in lowest credit class get put in the top 25 rows, next credit class gets put in the next best set of seats, etc. Occasionally people will randomly get seats better/worse than what they should have based on how many credits they have. But within each area of the student section, seating is random (unless you sign up for a seating group, then you get a group of tickets together, and your priority as a group is determined by the lowest priority person in your group. </p>
<p>However, you're not strictly bound to your assigned ticket. Ushers only check to see that you're in the right section, and even then it's not too hard to move over once you get inside if you have friends you want to sit by (especially if you show up early). Just keep in mind the further you try and move down, the more likely people are to complain that you're in their seats and kick you out. This usually isn't much of a problem in the freshmen section, since lots of people move around to sit with friends they hadn't yet met when they ordered tickets, and if there's any kind of extra space everybody moves down, making things more sparse near the top where the freshmen sit.</p>