<p>My DD received her housing assignment this morning. She was surprised and upset to see Eigenmann. She had requested Northwest and thought her priority was rather high. Is anyone else experiencing this? Any advice on making changes? How is Eigenmann dorm for a freshman? Thanks for any input!</p>
<p>The same thing happened to our son. He put down premium housing/northwest at first choice, and according to RPS if that wasn’t available then they placed him the next premium type housing available without regard to neighborhood choice. When I mentioned it wasn’t spelled out that it would be handled that way on the registration, they acknowledged that others are complaining about that as well. He applied within 48 hours of registration being opened. Everyone else he knows got their neighborhood of choice except him. We are disappointed to say the least</p>
<p>We are in the same boat- very upset over this. She had submitted the form within 2 hours of the application going on-line. Is Eigenmann now going to be made up of those that didn’t get Briscoe?</p>
<p>Who knows. There is way too much stereotyping of the neighborhoods, and I’m sure this dorm will be fine, it’s the way it was handled that caught us, and evidently many others, off guard. How that many other people he knows got what they requested is beyond me.</p>
<p>This is from the RPS website:When no space is available in enhanced housing, students who have indicated a willingness to pay the highest rate may be assigned to the next most expensive space available for first year students. Typically, this space will be in Eigenmann which is air-conditioned and has recently renovated student rooms that are 25% larger than our standard double room and come with our current standard for in-room furnishings</p>
<p>I signed up for housing literally within 30 minutes of it opening up in January. I got the neighborhood I wanted - Central, but they put me on an academic floor, which I absolutely did not want because of the 7pm quiet hours (M-Thu) and they gave me a 2 room double, which cost $1400 more than a standard double even though one of my preferences was no enhanced housing. I mean it’s Wright (no a/c) which I think will be fine, but for the cost I am paying I could have true enhanced housing. I am wondering if they truly even look at your preferences.</p>
<p>I just got my assignment as well and I preferenced Central > Northwest and was put into Southeast. However, I was put into Rose which is a new building opening fall of 2013, so overall I guess I can’t complain too much…</p>
<p>RPS has a weird system. </p>
<p>DS3 has the following preference ranking:</p>
<p>1) Room preference
2) KLLC -
3) Honor - Northwest
4) Fitness and wellness LLC
5) Northwest
6) Enhanced cost housing</p>
<p>He was rejected by KLLC possibly due to the roommate preference. Both (3) and (4) are in Briscoe. He has been assigned to Briscoe. I suspect that a student might be assigned to another neighborhood if the enhanced cost housing is ranked as (3) - (5) since IU wants to fill up all the high cost housing first.</p>
<p>They do look at your preferences, but so many people request Northwest that people would have to live in quads or 5-ways to accommodate people. Honestly, you or your kid will make friends wherever you are, so just smile and move on.</p>
<p>Not living in McNutt, Foster, or Briscoe is not the end of the world, I promise.</p>
<p>good post soccergurl</p>
<p>Found out my niece will be in Teter, exactly what she wanted. It probably won’t make the kids that didn’t get into NW feel better, but most “townie” parents I know do not let their kids live in NW. Parents might feel relieved.</p>
<p>My dd turned her housing app in very late and requested Central. She got put in SE in Read. She won’t like that it doesn’t have air conditioning, but it does have semi-private half baths so that is a good trade off I guess.</p>
<p>After having worked for RPS for years I can tell you that housing is ordered chaos. Northwest has roughly 3000 spaces and over 5700 applicants every year so there is no way to accommodate them all. Eigenmann and Forest historically have handled this over flow. The issue with Briscoe is that sophomores and upperclassmen applied to live there long before incoming students had the chance to, severely limiting the space available. In addition while priority exists, it is not absolute and with some many students coming and going I’ve seen people with singles at McNutt who applied for housing in June. It is a chaotic system.</p>
<p>orientation this week was fantastic except for the parents/students who would not stop complaining about their housing assignments. It was extremely annoying and when the parents got involved it really got out of control</p>
<p>What “the word” about Forest? D was assigned there, wanted Teter.</p>
<p>gman11…at orientation they said there was still room at Teter. Is he in honors? That might be the reason because they said 4 to 5 floors of Teter might be honors this year</p>
<p>Yankee–re post 13—YES!!!</p>
<p>As a parent, I know how much it costs to sent a kid to IU. I know I want “the perfect” experience for my kids, but I also know that not getting the first dorm choice is not the end of the world. Life is what you make it. That kind of stuff has always smacked of entitlement to me. Part of growing up is learning to make the best of things as they are. This is a first college lesson.</p>
<p>I don’t know about everyone else, we are newbies here, S is frsh DA to Kelley, and we are out of state. Our only gripe is that we were assigned a single in a dorm that costs additional $$…we did not request a single, or a specific dorm, so having to pay $1k more without having requested it absolutely does not seem fair, we’re trying to change it up and hope things work out</p>
<p>My D is 1 of 600 students that have not been assigned to a dorm. They are waiting on students to cancel. So if you got assigned to a dorm, be happy,</p>
<p>Re: students not assigned dorms yet. </p>
<p>Every year there are a number of students that end up living in lounges. Many of them are out of the lounges within a few weeks. Of the 600 currently unassigned students I would guess many will have an assignment in the next month. </p>
<p>It’s not all bad and students are moved out of the lounges fairly quickly most of the time. </p>
<p>Here is a story from last year. </p>
<p>[Temporary</a> housing numbers down | Campus | Indiana Daily Student](<a href=“http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=88185]Temporary”>http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=88185)</p>