<p>Are you sure the information you have been giving out about the rooming process is correct?</p>
<p>"I talked to housing yesterday. I was told that if two people choose to room together, the person with the earliest deposit date will determine the order of when their housing choice is considered.</p>
<p>I will call them tomorrow to confirm in case my question was misunderstood, but i asked the question very directly."</p>
<p>A student on the Facebook page said that your claim was incorrect.</p>
<p>That was based on the experience of two students at our high school. The student was ED and the other RD (with a fairly late date given complications in financial aid). THey requested one another and when not placed together called ASAP in July. At least in that year – the specific response from housing was that dates had to be in reasonable proximity…an RD could not bump an ED. That makes good sense-- after all, that is the point of the process- fill by deposit date.</p>
<p>I only report the information that was backed in actual fact.
They assign a student a summer job to process the forms…it’s not done by a program, literally was done by hand last two summers (spoke with students in both classes from our high school having equally screwy situations).</p>
<p>I’d be ****ed if I was an ED and an ED with an earlier date pulled in 3 RDs with late dates and I got bumped-- wouldn’t you? Not all EDs have the same date either-- </p>
<p>I’ve been following Amy’s blog with the dorm rooms and the last 2 she did (Hammerschlag and Scobell) did not list the number that they are on her map. Do you know if they are 3 and 4 on the map or some other number. Thanks!!!</p>
<p>@ steelers
I actually called housing this morning and spoke to Jen to clarify.
She said it’s not a problem if there’s only a handful of ED requesting RD…if it’s loads of situations like this - they would not bump other ED or RDs with early dates …and would need to evaluate all factors to balance and ensure equity among students.
Essentially -she said “it’s complicated” and no clear answers-- we go through a thorough process and try to give everyone their first or second choice…</p>
<p>So the long and the short of it is – as I said, there’s obviously exceptions and rules here…and it’s out of our hands.
If I were an ED, I would not hock up with an RD with a April 15+ date b/c I might not get the student …</p>
<p>@ LuvBoston
From your PM you said you have a Daughter…
Schalg and Scobell are guys only dorms- on the Hill - next to Maggie Morrison Complex.
When you were visiting campus-- you might have observed the football field and an adjacent street with trucks parked along the street selling food (the “trucks”)…cross that street and literally up those stairs is the “Hill”…where you find Schlag, Scobell, Henderson, Boss, McGill and Welch…<br>
Go to Google Maps street view – you can see things very clearly that way as well…</p>
<p>Amy’s blog is wonderful-- ! I luv the room that has a keyboard inside- awesome use of space.</p>
<p>Thanks. I’m trying to get it all straight. Amy had all the pink dots numbered on the map on her blog and I was trying to match up the dorms to the numbers to try and see how the dorms on campus were laid out. Yes, I do have a daughter so it sounds like Schlag and Scobell are definitely not in the mix! :)</p>
<p>I don’t know a ton about Donner triples, but I do know this: There was a vacancy on my floor in Mudge (a student who didn’t end up going to CMU had a room reserved for him due to miscommunication). They went to someone in a Donner temporary (better-known as “forced”) triple and informed him that he could move into the room with a vacancy in Mudge. He chose to stay in his no longer temporary triple… I guess he liked what he had in Donner?</p>
<p>Two things I take from that story are that the forced triples can’t be totally awful if someone would want to stay there, and they did in fact offer the person to get out of it during the first semester, so I suppose they really are temporary.</p>
<p>BTW, if you didn’t know this, a temporary triple is when they put a third person in a Donner double as temporary housing while they wait for vacancies to arise elsewhere in housing. I’ve heard of this being done at other universities.</p>
<p>I’m not sure how you would find out if you are the third person in the triple…</p>
<p>I have never been inside of Boss, but listen to anything you hear about McGill because it is an identical building, albeit McGill is only for female residents.</p>
<p>If you don’t like the communal bathroom concept, you are in a good place because all the rooms in Boss and McGill are “Prime.” This means that you don’t share a bathroom with more than 5 people.</p>
<p>Boss is also for special programs. To my knowledge, unless you’re in PLACE, Humanities Scholars, or one of the interdepartmental degree programs (BXA), you won’t be living in Boss.</p>
<p>If you already know you’re in a triple that’s temporary housing you have a 100% chance of being moved out some time in the first few weeks…</p>
<p>and a very high chance of being placed into an upperclassman dorm b/c that’s where the vacancies end up many times…so Resnick, West Wing…sweet (suite)!</p>
<p>DS knows he is NOT the “3rd” in the room. He also was told who his roommate is but not the “temporary 3rd person.” This is all getting very exciting!! Now onto to class schedules!! ARGH!!!</p>
<p>There are so many stink bugs in donner right now…
they dont bite or anything but there are so many of them since they live in the tree across from the dorm. They find the smallest cracks to get into and they are so annoying</p>
<p>also donner is hot as hell if you are faced towards the hill</p>
<p>donner is nice though since its close to everything</p>
<p>yeah, mudge has cockroaches too right now. we’ve even started naming the corpses we find. ): give it two-ish weeks and the bugs will be gone, I promise you!</p>