<p>Hi everyone.
I got accepted to FSU and I really want to go there. It just seems like a great fit. So any fellow Class of 2017 CC members: feel free to message me!
Anyway, I just wanted to ask an opinion on how soon you would need to fill out the housing contract for the best chance of getting your first choice? Should I be sitting around at 8:30 am on January 15th waiting until the contract is up (It comes out at 9:00am)?
I got invited to the honors program and I filled out the app and paid the dues so I really want to live in Landis. If I apply for housing on January 15th do you think I would get it? I read somewhere that Landis only has like 400 spots or something (correct me if I'm wrong).
Thanks!</p>
<p>Landis is honors only…majority of the time. If the same housing regulation hasn’t changed, it really depends on the priority number they assign to you. I’m not exactly sure/remember how they assign the numbers, if someone can fill in the detail or update my not too ancient information…</p>
<p>If you want your first choice, then the best way to assure that is to apply ASAP.</p>
<p>Landis being Honors only helps a bit, because not everyone that fills out the housing app will be an Honors student, and not all Honors students will want to live in Landis anyway. </p>
<p>I’d say that if you want to pretty much assure yourself of getting a spot in your first choice, you need to fill it out within the first day or two at the latest.</p>
<p>I’m currently a freshman and to answer your question;</p>
<p>…APPLY THE SECOND, NO, THE MILLISECOND YOU CAN………</p>
<p>When freshman housing opens, I can assure you that the website WILL crash and everyone will go crazy. My advice is just to hit the enter bottom on the web site over and over until you obtain a housing priority number. I didn’t get a housing number until 3 hours of trying…… Just don’t give up….
Try you’re very best to get a low housing number or you may end up in one of those old nasty dorms by Tennessee Street.
I applied last year in December @ midnight for housing and my housing spot was below 180 which essentially entitled me any housing option I requested. One of my friends applied only a few days after me and his spot was in the 2200’s which left him with the leftovers. As an honor housing student, you should be okay as long as your housing priority number is under 1000 as Gilchrest Dorm is overflow for housing.
Remember, apply early.</p>
<p>Thank you guys so much! I’m definitely going to sign up the second it opens, lol. How does the parent signature thing work? I’m 17 and I’ve read some things about having to mail in your parents signature. Do you get your priority number before that or do I have to wait for them to get it before I get my number?</p>
<p>You get a priority number first, then your parents sign and fax/mail the original copies back to FSU within 10 days.
Also, sit at your computer BEFORE housing opens and start trying. I started at midnight, 12:01am, the day housing opened.</p>
<p>Lol thank god. I was thinking 'why can’t I be 18!!" lol you are all awesome for helping me :)</p>
<p>*So it might even open BEFORE 9:00? Guess I’m not sleeping that night lolol</p>
<p>A housing priority number of 2200 does not relegate someone to “the leftovers” in any way, shape or form.</p>
<p>There’s 6,574 spots on-campus for housing. A number of the spots are set aside for returning residents only (about 1218), which still leaves well over 5300 spots available to freshmen (granted, a number of these might go to returners as well). There’s roughly 5,000 spots on campus to freshman applicants. A significant number of the applicants don’t attend FSU, and their priority number gets tossed out. </p>
<p>A number of 2200 likely won’t get someone their first choice if they’re aiming to get into Degraff or Wildwood, but it certainly is not ANYWHERE near as bad as you are claiming. </p>
<p>Here’s how FSU’s Housing numbers break down:</p>
<p>Suite-Style Dorms
DeGraff 700
Wildwood 700
Reynolds 243
Broward 135
Bryan 131
Cawthon 297
Gilchrist 229
Jennie Murphree 327
Landis 403
Salley 570</p>
<p>Community-Style
Deviney 245
Dorman 276
Smith 562
Kellum 538</p>
<p>Apartments (Returning residents, grad students, or non-traditional students only*)
McCollum 199
Ragans 555
Traditions 276
Rogers 188</p>
<p>Totals:
Suite-Style 3735
Community 1621
Apartment 1218 (Returning residents/Grad/non-traditional only*)
Total: 6574
Suite + Community: 5356 (theoretical number of spots open to freshman applicants)</p>
<ul>
<li>With a very limited number of exceptions. For example, some undergrad returning residents can live in Rogers, under certain circumstances.</li>
</ul>
<p>Pasbal-
I apologize and allow me to make myself clearer…
With the priority number of over 2200, my friend was not able to get his first housing choice with me in Broward as all the Broward slots were taken. Although 2200+ is not a terrible number, it still is a very poor number and the good suite selection begins to die out at that point, unless one doesn’t mind to live in the community dorms. </p>
<p>Question to you Pasbal-</p>
<p>I’m in Broward now and my room is small, any suggestions for second year and close to dinning. My returning housing number is under 180.</p>
<p>The only one designated for returning students only that’s really all that close to a dining facility is McCollum. The Ragans complex and Traditions Hall aren’t all that far from Suwanee, but it’s not the most welcoming trek, either. They’re probably pretty close to being evenly spaced from the two main dining facilities. </p>
<p>And of course a number of 2200 wouldn’t get him into Broward. Usually, a number over 500 is told by Housing that the odds are slim to get into Broward (and sadly, I’m not joking about that, although it’s certainly debatable how accurate anything Housing says actually is). However, it’s not like any of the east-side dorms are at all far from each other…</p>