<p>Yes, it's a bit early, but I was wondering:
How does housing work for current students for next year? I assume we get a new priority number, so do we just wait until housing opens and apply like we did freshman year? Does this also work for apartment style housing? When do we have to decide if we're staying Summer 2012?</p>
<p>You keep your current number as a returning student. You will receive your spring invoice in early November to your U-Box.</p>
<p>No, actually you receive the invoice in Nov for SPRING 2012. </p>
<p>Summer is always totally separate each year. You will get an email about when summer opens, and each summer has it’s own lottery and priority number. But summer housing is usually prime housing, so summer is not a big deal. Go online and sign up once it opens. You will get notification. Summer opens in like Feb/March or so, and everyone is in the same lottery, but I think upperclassman get priority over freshman. summer is Gilchrist, Cawthone, J Murphee, Reynolds and typical east side dorms, including DeGraf. Ragans is open for summer for upperclassman. The dreaded dorms of Kellum, Smith, Dorman, Deviney are closed for summer, and Wildwood 1&2 is used for orientations. Wildwood #3 will not be open until fall 2012.</p>
<p>Fall 2012 uses your original priority number, as does each fall until you graduate. You will get info via email in early Jan about signing up. The sign-up window is usually mid Jan to March 1sst. The good news is that many sophomores move off campus, so you will get a good location. While Ragans usually fills, Wildwood #3 will be open for fall 2012, and that is apartment style upper class housing also. So your chances for a new apartment style dorm just went up!!! When you get the info to sign up, there is about a 6 week sign up period, and there is NO HURRY, because they use your original priority number, so you can wait until the last week to finalize your plans. Once you sign up, you are obligated, so you want to be sure about staying on campus. You will get your assignment in late March or early April. And just like freshman, you can turn in a change request. You do have until mid-April to decline your contract.</p>
<p>Here is info for this past year to give you an idea. <a href=“http://housing.fsu.edu/returnersignup.html[/url]”>http://housing.fsu.edu/returnersignup.html</a></p>
<p>And you DO NOT have to stay summer term to keep your priority number for fall.</p>
<p>We keep our priority number! But my number was 8011! The only reason I have housing this semester is due to the living-learning communities, which I can’t do again next year since they are freshman groups. I would consider living off-campus next year, but I don’t have a car and honestly don’t want to spend the small amount of money I have to get one. I’m going to try for the apartment style dorms if they are within my price range.</p>
<p>As a returning student, you will have an advantage over the new students. You will be placed long before they are.</p>
<p>As for the apartment style dorms, there’s 200 spots in McCollum and 555 in Ragans. Those spots fill quickly, especially when you consider that you have three years of students applying for them. With your priority number you might want to look into Rogers for next year, which you apply for separately and pay month-to-month, instead of per semester. Your priority number doesn’t apply for Rogers, although space there is limited as well.</p>
<p>Okay I will look into Rogers. Is it a separate application for the apartment style dorms? Also, if I just stick with a suite-style dorm like I have now, what are my chances for getting a nice one like Wildwood or DeGraff? I definitely don’t want to get stuck in a dorm like Smith or Kellum.</p>
<p>All options are on the application for fall for upperclassman. And Wildwood 3 is adding 300 more upperclassman apartment beds.</p>
<p>You have to apply separately for Rogers, although Ragans and McCollum are listed with both the option of the McCollum Townhouse (4 people) and Efficiency (1 person) as an option on the application. </p>
<p>I can’t say for sure what the odds are of you getting a spot in Wildwood or Degraff are, but I would say that you have a very good shot at them if you were denied McCollum or Ragans. I do believe though that you can apply for more than one dorm on the returning form, so you can easily just go for whichever one you want the most, and if you don’t get it, end up with your second choice (most likely).</p>