Housing Contract Transfer

So I’m currently a freshman at Penn state, and for a while I thought I was transferring to a different school but then decided not to so someone is transferring their on campus housing contract to me. Apparently if you take a contract during the transfer period you get a contract for supplemental housing but are put on a waitlist for a regular room. Has anyone had any experience with this? I want to know the likelihood of getting off the waitlist because I really don’t want to be put in supplemental