<p>Let’s call you sophomores to avoid confusion. I am guessing yes because you have a full set of sophomores. </p>
<p>Some sophomores may get into Newell in the next round of apartment selection but who knows if they will take that selection or try for suites in the next round.</p>
<p>There are approx 900 suite spaces according to the housing website (5 x 180 not counting McCormick which is honors freshmen housing). There were about the same number of spaces in Livi and all senior groups got housing, but there are probably more sophomores applying than seniors. Any junior/sophomore groups who do not get their preferred choice of apartments or suites will go to dorms or Newell or go on a waitlist, if it comes to that.</p>
<p>Sorry nothing has worked out for you yet, been there done that You’re going to be a junior right? Assuming your group is all juniors, you’d have a pretty good chance at getting a nicely located Newell. Would you rather revert to the old lottery system where you can’t even get any apartment with a number over 3000? </p>
<p>I totally agree about priority housing, it really is unfair. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to open Busch apartment applications early for specific schools. Something like that should have been done a long time ago. I knew someone in EGC last year who tried pushing this idea, but they said it didn’t happen since housing is a completely separate entity. It still doesn’t answer why SEBS was able to get priority housing though.</p>
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<p>When Livi apartments were being constructed I was always under the assumption that they would be for business students. Apparently not! I know a lot of engineering majors who live there and will be living there next year, and they will all just be taking the B bus to busch everyday. It would make more sense if they were mainly for business students, considering the new business school building will be right there. I guess they open it to everybody because other majors could just as willing to pay the higher cost for it. It’s all about the money, right?</p>
<p>I don’t understand why there would be reverse seniority too. Shouldn’t juniors have a chance at the suites before sophomores? Maybe they figure that sophomores will be able to easily make a group of 6 from their freshman dorms. It kind of makes me wish this system was implemented when I was a freshman. The suites were as coveted as the Livi apartments currently are!</p>
<p>drexeler I called housing last year to ask why them why they didn’t go to an all-seniority system. They said that they didn’t want to ‘exclude’ any groups. They felt that if seniors got preference for all housing, that sophomores might be left without housing. </p>
<p>The fact is, someone has to get last choice. Right now it seems to be juniors, which I don’t think is fair. Once you have suffered through the freshmen dorms, you should be able to hope for better accommodations each year.</p>
<p>Maybe if everyone gets housing again this year, they will be able to go to all seniority because no group is getting ‘shut out’. I think that all juniors will probably at least get Newell, but lots of people don’t like Newell primarily due to location. Maybe that is why they offered it as priority to all-SEBS groups (but even they don’t like Newell, because last year and this year there were a very small amount of groups applying for priority at Newell).</p>
<p>I don’t understand their reasoning, nobody would be excluded lol. Sophomores would just get whatever is left over. If it was a full seniority process, some seniors may have opted for the suites, leaving open spaces for juniors in the other apartments. Another problem is that BEST really does not open up to new upperclassmen, only freshmen and upperclassmen who previously lived there. That could also have opened up spaces for juniors. With the reverse seniority, sophomores would also have priority for Stonier, which I feel should be open to juniors first considering they have private bathrooms and such. Hardenbergh also used to be upperclassmen-only, and since it’s air conditioned those spaces will also probably be taken up by sophomores.</p>
<p>Also, did I miss something, or did they get rid of the group signups for the quads?</p>
<p>fresh13 the freshman housing application becomes available sometime in March, so any day now. Check your Rutgers email or wherever you check for application updates.</p>
<p>My son will be a sophomore next year and has a group of 6 who want to live in a Busch suite next school year. His number is in the 3000’s and his other future suite mates do not have any better numbers. He has another group of 6 friends who also want a suite and they have great numbers - one has 114 and another in the low 1000’s. The low number people are willing to switch people so that My son’ s group can get a suite. It seems like the plan will work and everyone can switch once the 2 suites are secured. How does this plan sound?</p>
<p>What class years are the rest of the people in your son’s group? And yes, that’s a good idea. I have no clue how competitive the suites are going to be, but any way of improving his chances is a good idea, especially something as simple as that.</p>
<p>Karensue yes, he can do that. During the summer he can fill out a room swap form with the other student. The only potential problem is if the higher numbered group does not get a suite, and then that person does not want to switch back. But I am guessing that most all-sophomore groups who apply for a suite will get one, regardless of number.</p>
<p>Before they do this, they should make sure that everyone in each group has the correct number of seniority points. They might want to check their seniority confirmation emails sent by housing, showing their seniority points. </p>
<p>There were a few problems this year with people who were showing the incorrect seniority points and were not qualified to select during the selection process until it was corrected. Make sure that any transfer students are showing the correct seniority points/year of graduation because sometimes their credits get messed up.</p>
<p>Also make sure that every member of each group completes the correct suite application, on time. This sounds elementary but every year, someone does not do it and that group is unable to select.</p>
<p>It all sounds so easy but the housing lottery can be treacherous ;)</p>
<p>All the students in my sons groups are sophomores. He said everyone qualifies for selecting suites. I hope it all works out. I guess they will know if they got the suites and if not then he will pick a double with his roommate.</p>
<p>Didn’t get suites with group of all incoming sophomores (max seniority pts of 18) and lottery number 2200. </p>
<p>What do we do now? D: Are two incoming sophs with max reverse seniority pts. and lottery number 4032 a good number for college ave doubles??? FREAKING OUT!!!</p>
<p>wow. I am really surprised. So you are going to go for doubles, I am guessing you should at least get a Livi double. If not, you will go to a wait list and you should get housing before the start of Sept, so don’t freak out.</p>
<p>I am wondering if there are any leftover Newell apartments. I have called housing a few times and they will not tell me the cutoffs. </p>
<p>Last year and the year before everyone who applied for housing got it.</p>
<p>Did they tell you the exact cutoffs for suites? Please post.</p>
<p>Even the second round of selections doesn’t seem too promising, assuming it’s based on people who choose to give up the suites (which I HIGHLY doubt will happen) :/</p>
<p>My group’s number was around the 1000s, too. Ugh</p>
You’re going to be a junior right? Assuming your group is all juniors, you’d have a pretty good chance at getting a nicely located Newell. Would you rather revert to the old lottery system where you can’t even get any apartment with a number over 3000? </p>