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The regular cap for the number of juniors and seniors living on campus has been met, and The Station filled up after the first time slot in phase one for juniors. Juniors who signed up after the first time slot found there was no longer any on-campus housing available for them.
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<p>Interesting article in the Pendulum - rather surprising for the school that supposedly runs so smoothly. Anyone with a current sophomore/junior caught up in this have more insight?</p>
<p>Currently the overwhelming majority (something like 90%) of juniors and seniors live off-campus. Seeing as the Station will only house around 350 kids and there are 2000 juniors and seniors, we never even seriously considered it for D, a rising junior. She and a friend signed an off-campus lease in November. She was eager to move off-campus anyway, as there is a good deal of off-campus housing available and it is generally cheaper than living on campus (especially compared to the Oaks). Many kids live in the same off-campus housing for 2 years, and don’t have to worry about moving in/out between junior and senior years.</p>
<p>Elon has always said that housing for juniors and seniors is “limited.” What I never could tell was exactly how much they had set aside for them. Housing for freshmen & sophs is guaranteed.</p>
<p>Son who will be a junior is studying abroad in fall and therefor did not get any housing yet. He will apply in the fall for the spring housing but of coarse the options will be limited and he may not be able to live with friends. We will have to see how it all plays out. He is hoping at least senior year he will be in an apartment with friends.</p>
<p>Sophomore housing lottery has not occurred yet; my daughter has chosen to live in her sorority house for next year so she will not participate…but I will report back when I speak with her regarding how it went for her friends…</p>
<p>From what I understand,they had to limit the number of juniors and seniors in order to gurantee housing for freshman and sophmores. Elon is in the middle of building a lot of lnew dorms and needs to tear down old ones first. Until the new housing is built, the number of spaces for the upperclass will be limited. It should clear up in a couple of years, but until then, it will remain aprobelm. There is alot of off campus housing.</p>
<p>Talked to D this weekend. Apparently the housing “issue” this year pretty much involves the Juniors. In the past, very few (if any) seniors wanted to come back onto campus after moving off. As a result, some juniors who would have gotten off-campus leases decided not to, believing they would have no problem getting into the new Station at Mill Point. Unfortunately a lot of seniors did want to come back into Mill Point, and the allocated housing for Juniors ran out quickly, leaving a number of juniors out in the cold for housing. My D says the info they received repeatedly said juniors could live in Mill Point, and didn’t mention the limited number of spaces, so some of the juniors feel they were misled. But I can’t help but wonder why the kids didn’t figure out the math: 350 slots for juniors at seniors at Mill Point, and about 1000 kids in each grade.</p>
<p>This seems to be an unusual mix-up for Elon, where in our nearly 2 years of experience things do truly generally run like butter. I think it’s a function of these transitional years where they’re still tearing down old housing and building new. Once the Global Village is up, they’ll have a steady number of rooms and it will be more predictable. </p>
<p>Again, Elon promises housing to frosh and sophs, and by the time any incoming frosh are juniors I think the housing situation will have settled out.</p>
<p>Thank you for that clarification. My recollection from our last visit to Elon was their stated goal of increasing the percentage of students who live on campus - believing that it contributes to their philosophy of engagement. Good to know that this issue should resolve itself over the next 2-3 years.</p>