<p>I'm a rising sophomore and a little confused about the housing lottery process. Phase I is from Feb.10-24th, does it matter during what day in that phase you apply for housing? Also at this point, do you just apply for housing or do you indicate your intended options? I'm also looking at applying for the International House. Is this after Phase I? If I'm taken out of the lottery, and doesn't get into International House, what do I do? Do I get placed randomly to another room, or onto another exploration floor? Is there anyway to increase my chances of getting in? Can I select the room I want on an exploration floor, or are you assigned rooms?</p>
<p>No, it doesn’t matter when you apply for the lottery. the time slots are randomly assigned.</p>
<p>[NYU</a> > Residential Life and Housing Services > Lottery > Overview](<a href=“On Campus Living”>On Campus Living)
read all about it</p>
<p>[NYU</a> > Residential Life and Housing Services > Lottery > Updates > Placement Priority](<a href=“On Campus Living”>On Campus Living)
sophomores have 1st priority.</p>
<p>My son is a rising senior and we’re opting out of NYU housing for his last year. My brother has a rent stabilized studio apt on 3rd street near Ave A (1 blk east of 1st ave). Will cost me $1000 a month including utilities. I figure after 3 years (most recently at 26th street in bunk beds), he deserves some privacy!</p>
<p>Hi! I’m known around my friends for being OBSESSED with the Housing Lottery. I’ve done a great job with it in the past. </p>
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<li>Sophomores get priority. This is why they’re all around Union Square. You are lumped into a “group” with people of a similar graduation date, and then the Housing Lottery randomly assigns you a date within that group. </li>
<li>If you apply for a special program and are accepted (Int. House counts) you are exempt from the Lottery and don’t have to worry about the rest of what I’m about to say. </li>
<li>I THINK International House is NOT the same as Explorations. Explorations are programs in specific halls. International House is ONE MULTI-ROOM SUITE within Palladium. </li>
<li>I put six different halls on my Exploration application, and got into my last choice. Many people do Explorations to try to game the system and get into Union Square. </li>
<li>For now, you are just committing to being in Housing for 2010-2011. That’s what Feb. is for. </li>
<li>Check the links that sue put up, because they explain the process really well.</li>
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<p>[NYU</a> > Residential Life and Housing Services > Lottery > Updates > Special Interest Housing](<a href=“http://www.nyu.edu/residential.education/lottery/whats.new/special.interest.housing.html]NYU”>http://www.nyu.edu/residential.education/lottery/whats.new/special.interest.housing.html)</p>
<p>International House is considered special interest housing. Click on the link above for more info.</p>
<p>Does anyone know why 26th Street and University Court are not on the available hall list? Just seems like so few dorms for the number of people who want housing. I know there’s at least three more (Broome, 7th and 13th 
)not available for the lottery.</p>
<p>2010-2011 Hall Information and Availability</p>
<p>Halls available for lottery participants:
Alumni Hall
Carlyle Court* Coral Towers* Gramercy Green*
Greenwich Hotel* Lafayette Street* Palladium Hall*
Second Street* University Hall</p>
<p>Broome is Residential College.
Seventh is Green House.
Thirteenth is Senior House. </p>
<p>I don’t know why 26th and UCourt aren’t on there, that might just be a typo on the website because we DEFINITELY still have them. The other three halls will open if they’re not full up by special interest housing.</p>
<p>In the past, a few halls of Broome have opened up, and I don’t forsee Thirteenth being full, since most seniors will have moved out of the system by now.</p>
<p>@londonb</p>
<p>just got an email about 26th and UCourt:</p>
<p>We hope that the spring semester is treating you well. We wanted to take this
opportunity to inform you of a very recent development that will impact the
housing lottery for the upcoming 2010-2011 academic year.</p>
<p>For some time, NYU’s School of Medicine has been working to identify a new
space for medical student housing and, at the same time, move forward their
planning for additional research facilities. In light of this, the University
has decided to use the University Court and 26th Street residence halls for
medical school student housing. This will:</p>
<p>· provide new, improved housing for the medical students
· provide a location for the planning of a new research facility (the former
medical student residence hall), and
· remove from the undergraduate housing system the two least popular residence
halls, 26th Street and University Court</p>
<p>The transfer of these two residence halls will not alter NYU’s four-year
housing guarantee for undergraduates. All students with a guaranteed housing
status will receive housing, and we will continue to maintain the four year
housing guarantee offered at the time of admission. We believe that the total
number of beds (725), in these two residence halls can be absorbed through
filling vacancies that routinely exist elsewhere in the housing system,
minimizing empty beds, improving the efficiency of the system, and helping to
keep costs down.</p>
<p>However, it will also mean that at the completion of the lottery not all
students will receive specific room assignments. This is because more students
sign up for the lottery than actually take rooms; this has always been the
case. Experience has shown, however, that we have always been able to
accommodate housing requests for those who have met all the procedural
benchmarks (submitting forms on time, submitting deposits on time, etc.); over
the course of the summer, we will send room assignments to all those who did
not originally receive them. We are telling you this now so that you will be
prepared if you do not receive a room assignment and will understand that you
will subsequently receive one.</p>
<p>Email goes on, but these were the important parts.</p>
<p>Thanks, that’s really helpful!</p>
<p>I thought it was TERRIBLE at first, but then I realized it’s kind of a plus. This means no upperclassmen will be in a dorm with bunked beds.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the help everyone!
So if International House is its own separate thing, and I don’t get in, what happens then? I’m kicked back out to normal lottery? I read that International House is single and double rooms in the Multi-room suite, the single and double rooms have its own bathroom right?
By the way, say it comes to room selection day, and all the rooms I want is out, can I back out of housing and get the deposit back? And how exactly do I choose the room during Phase III? Looking at the floor plan? Just choose the type of room I want and they do the arrangements?</p>
<p>I would call housing and ask, because I’m not sure how it works for International House. Sorry. Also, look at the website carefully, it answers most of these questions.</p>
<p>i live in university court. though it is very small, about 150 people, the biggest rooms on campus are here. the corner rooms here.</p>
<p>from what i’ve seen in palladium, uhall, coral, gramercy, 3rd north, carlyle, ucourt is the best. the location is the only set back, but the shuttle stops by frequently.</p>
<p>i wasnt planning on living here next semester anyway, but i think that since its so small, that most ppl never come here and somehow this bad rumor has spread.</p>