<p>Perhaps the housing office needs to change the information on its website, which is inconsistent with what you indicate you were told.</p>
<p>See [Housing</a> and Residential Education - Assignment Priority](<a href=“University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Student Housing”>University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Student Housing)</p>
<p>Here’s a F/U e-mail directly from UNC Housing - Mr. Hyde</p>
<p>"We don’t penalize students for living off campus and then wanting to move back on-campus. And as a first year student he is required to live either at Granville Towers on on-campus. But for clarity, UNC does not own Granville Towers – a private fundraising group called UNC Foundation owns that property.</p>
<p>Thank you,</p>
<p>Lee A. Hyde | DHRE | 919.962.5401 | <a href=“mailto:lahyde@email.unc.edu”>lahyde@email.unc.edu</a>"</p>
<p>Agree - the website states otherwise that 2nd yr students from Granville are in 5th priority with other “of-campus” students. We will be visting UNC-CH soon and hope to get this clarified. </p>
<p>Mr. Hyde’s telephone and e-mail are provided FYI.</p>
<p>My daughter stayed at Granville her first year and loved it. It is a great location and she still goes back to eat if she knows someone staying there. She went to on-campus housing her next year and was assigned the Morrison dorm, which is a remodeled dorm that is very nice, but in the end she had it changed to Ram Village. She loved living at Ram Village Apartments on campus, where she had her own bedroom. I do not think it is hard to get back on campus after Granville.</p>
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<p>This has been the official UNC housing position on Granville for at least the last seven years.</p>
<p>Mr Hyde may have said they don’t “penalize” students for living in Granville and then wanting to come back on campus but I can assure you that anyone who is living in UNC housing from freshman year on will get priority selection before someone who has been living off campus. It is a reverse priority system; rising seniors, juniors, sophomores, incoming freshmen then those who have lived off campus. There would be an all out revolt in the university housing system if that were not the case. </p>
<p>To clarify, students’ requests to remain in their same room for the next year will be honored but if they decide to try for another room in the same dorm or another dorm the above priority selection system then goes into effect.</p>
<p>Being fifth in line for selection may not be a “penalty” in the truest sense of the word but it is certainly more disadvantageous when wishing to select a more desirable dorm location.</p>
<p>Not trying to be argumentative, but the e-mail says the student will not be “penalized”, it does not indicate that the student will be accorded the same priority as other students already in campus housing. In Clintonesque tradition, I supposed it depends on how one defines the word “penalized”. If the issue is material to you, I would certainly seek a definitive answer from the housing department as I am certainly no authority on the subject.</p>
<p>tyr - Like I said before, my daughter was not penalized. After living in Granville, she was able to get into the Morrison dorm, which is really nice, but she did end up changing to Ram Village. I really do not think you will have a problem. Her friend also stayed in Granville and was able to get into Ram Village with her their sophomore year. Ram Village is really nice, you can have your own bedroom. Their apartment had four bedrooms, a living room, a full kitchen, and two big bathrooms. There is a vanity area with one sink, but it has a lot of counter space and it is separate from the shower and commode.</p>
<p>I did not say that a student could not get on-campus housing after living off-campus. Priority in the selection process was the issue, not the opportunity to live on-campus. If your daughter got the housing she preferred, she was fortunate. I know another young lady in a similar situation who was not so lucky. As our anecdotal evidence cancels out, we are back to trying to determine the policies of the housing office.</p>
<p>As a matter of interest, on further looking there does, in fact, appear to be a change in the room assignment policy for the upcoming year, which is perhaps what CJ Madison was alluding to. </p>
<p>See [Housing</a> and Residential Education - Campus Housing Selection 2010-2011- APPLY NOW!](<a href=“University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Student Housing”>University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Student Housing). It appears that the new policy is that all enrolled students are treated the same (within their year classification), after returning students are first given the opportunity to retain their current room or to move to another selected room within the same residence hall. I am not sure that if I were a freshman that I would be thrilled with being in the last group to chose in the lottery process.</p>
<p>Perhaps the surmise that the website had not been updated was correct, as the above is certainly inconsistent with the information previously linked.</p>
<p>How much is the cost difference between living on campus and at granville?</p>
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<p>I’d like to know the same.</p>