<p>My daughter tried multiple combinations of roommates - with at least two petitions rejected. It appears she may be awarded something this round, but her two best sets of friend groups will not. And, there is one building she doesn't want to be assigned to due to being far away, and she feels less safe. In other words, not very walkable. If assigned there, she might go off campus to be closer to campus!</p>
<p>I wonder if any other classes are having the issues the Juniors are having?</p>
<p>It must have been really tough for Wash U. to fit them all their freshman year.</p>
<p>NUGraduate your post reads exactly verbatim like what my son told me. He doesn't want to be in Loop Lofts either.</p>
<p>I will know what is going on with my S's housing tomorrow...I hope. Sophomores will do their petition this week, my D wants to stay at South Forty, but won't be room for all the sophomores. We'll see.</p>
<p>LOL - Soproudofkids - you knew exactly what I was talking about! I don't want my daughter to live in the Loop Lofts, and it is interesting that a male is also concerned about the location. It's both inconvenient, and less secure. Which bothers him most? Safety or inability to walk places? Is potential safety an issue to him at all?</p>
<p>Cressmom, others, you can check your child's housing selection on Webstac. My daughter called me from overseas to do it for her (they have no internet in their apartment and it was the middle of the night/morning in Italy.) It's under "Campus Housing" then select "Room Selection." She asked me to look and see what number she was, and how many petitions were in line ahead of her group. The website says, "Notification by Monday, May 31." Students must accept or decline by the 2nd. I don't know if it will be posted in the morning, afternoon, or evening. Does anybody here know?</p>
<p>My S said he would know if he was going to need to be off campus by Monday evening. Don't know if that means that's when things get announced or not.</p>
<p>S mostly feels Loop Lofts is too far away. He has a car and so does one of the people he's planning on rooming with, but the third person doesn't, so biking distance would be good. He tells me Loop Lofts is a mile past the Loop, as in the title is a bit misleading.</p>
<p>For anyone reading this who is not already at Wash U, my S will be a junior, and is coming off 2 years in the most beautiful gorgeous dorm. So we really can't complain even if he does need to be off campus for the last 2 years (he would probably have been off campus senior year anyway...)</p>
<p>What I AM concerned about is my D being at Wash U and maybe ending up off campus as a sophomore. I'm going to call and talk the housing office on Wednesday (figured Monday or Tuesday wouldn't be good days to call).</p>
<p>Sophomores get priority (over juniors and seniors) for housing on the South 40, so it's extremely unlikely that a sophomore would have to live off campus if he or she did not choose that.</p>
<p>As for living off campus, there are a 150 spots at Greenway (very close to campus) - I know sophomores who have ended up at Greenway by choice in the past, so I wouldn't bet that juniors would have a hard time getting there. In my experience, those at the Loop Lofts choose to live there, and aren't forced to. The rooms there are huge, and are real apartments - They aren't owned by the university, so they were built to attract normal renters.</p>
<p>There are 690 spots open in the north side round, not including the ~300 spots that have already been filled in The Village/Lopata.</p>
<p>Housing is online. Daughter got Greenway. Now I'm looking for a map to see how far it is from the Danforth Campus. Anyone here have a link?</p>
<p>I live in Greenway now and it is very close to campus (approx. 7-10 minute walk to the engineering side of campus). Here is a google map link to the apartment: 6600</a> Washington Ave, St Louis, MO 63130, USA - Google Maps</p>
<p>Thank you Buffy Angel. I appreciate the google map, and have sent it on to my husband. My daughter "insists" she needs a car, and since we have one available, and another daughter who will be a freshman, I think we'll let her take it for the year. (Meaning we'll be driving TWO cars to campus this fall - one holding stuff for two kids and two adults, and one holding more stuff and another two adults.)</p>
<p>So... I have some more questions. Is there guaranteed parking nearby? I don't want my daughter to have to find street parking around U. City. I lived near Wash U. for three years and know the area fairly well... I know that some areas are better than others in terms of walking around at night. Any suggestions?</p>
<p>There is a Greenway parking lot behind the building. Parking is not assigned, but usually none of my friends have trouble finding a parking spot. There is street parking right next to the apartment on Melville so it is not a big deal to park there if you absolutely can't find a place. </p>
<p>The area around the apartment is pretty safe. I wouldn't recommend walking around the loop late at night by yourself, though. They have a security car that sits on the path between campus and the apartment at night so that shouldn't be a problem either.</p>
<p>Again, thank you Buffy. You're an angel.</p>
<p>Anything else you think we should know about Greenway? What do you think will happen to all the Juniors who didn't get placed in Round 2. My daughter says that the University guarantees housing to all students - how will it be able to do so? Do you think they will rent more apartment buildings, like they did with the Loop Lofts? What do people think on campus?</p>
<p>I can't think of anything else really important to know about Greenway. I'll let you know if I remember something later.</p>
<p>I'm a senior so I haven't really been paying attention to the new housing selection system but I think there is a third round of housing. If they aren't assigned then, rooms often open up during the summer from people deciding to live off campus. If there are enough people that don't have housing, my guess is they would rent an apartment similar to the way they rented loop lofts a few years ago. Back then, they offered lots of benefits to convince upperclassmen to move to the loop lofts instead of staying on the 40 or the north side. It worked pretty well then so I assume the school would do it again if needed.</p>
<p>Very happy, my S and his roommate were able to get housing in a 2BR in Waterman Court. Had to call ResLife about this building because it wasn't on their website, they said it's one of Wash U's newer acquisitions and wasn't on website yet (sounds like they're a year or more behind on their website updating). Anyway, apparently this building is walking distance to campus and very near the all-important Kayak's Coffee.</p>
<p>Anyone know anything about this building, i.e. what shape it's in and whether it has any parking? Son has car out there already. We usually ship his car back and forth (he appealed and got permission to have car starting 2nd semester freshman year due to couldn't make all his classes and make it to ROTC without one).</p>
<p>soproudofkids - You might PM ST2 regarding Waterman Court. I know her D lives in an apartment very near Kayak's, so it might be Waterman Court. If it is the same building, ST2 would be able to give you the complete and very accurate lowdown on the building.</p>
<p>I wonder if ResLife has any other buildings we don't know about?</p>
<p>Also, how do you ship a car? Might need to know that info sometime!!</p>
<p>thanks midwestparent, will PM ST2</p>
<p>There are about a million car shipping companies, but of course would recommend using one that someone has vouched for. I will post the one we've used when I get home. We will be using a different one this spring because the dealer who fixes our cars recommended the one he uses and it was cheaper than the other one. FYI it's about $600-700 to ship a car from St. Louis to Boston. So if your kid can drive home all by himself/herself or can get a friend to help drive, and maybe stay with friends along the way, not cheaper. But if you are going to have to fly out and help your kid drive the car home and you're going to have some hotels and meals to pay for along the way, then it might be no more expensive to ship. We ran the numbers, and for us it was a wash cost-wise to ship it vs. fly out and help drive it home, not to mention it saves miles on the vehicle. When we shipped it out they delivered it very close to the dorm so it wasn't a problem for my S to pick it up.</p>
<p>Thank you for the information about car shipping. We wouldn't need it regarding WUStl and D's car (we are about 350 miles from the school), but this summer she will be going to a language program in Vermont. Not sure if she will need/want her car, but will file the info away just in case!</p>
<p>Now back to postings about housing!</p>