<p>Yes, once she places herself in a suite, the other available spaces in the suite will be locked to anyone else for 5 minutes.</p>
<p>This is important. When going online and checking for space, assume that some rooms are temporarily locked so keep refreshing to find newly unlocked suites.</p>
<p>My freshman son just got this email from housing; this is not what we had counted on…</p>
<p>Dear Student,</p>
<p>We have received your initial application indicating interest in on-campus housing. I am sorry to tell you that demand for housing has exceeded space, and you will not be able to complete the recontracting process at this time. There is no guarantee that housing will become available later in the spring, but if you wish to, you may place yourself on a waiting list for housing. If space becomes available, we will pull interested students off of the waiting list and notify them. Students will be prioritized on the waiting list by classification, with priority for rising sophomores, then juniors, and then seniors, and by the date of their original housing application within each classification. After February 15, students will no longer be able to add themselves to the housing waiting list.</p>
<p>If you wish to place yourself on this waiting list, go to [Student</a> Affairs | Housing & Residential Communities](<a href=“http://housing.ua.edu/waitlist/waitlistmenu.cfm]Student”>http://housing.ua.edu/waitlist/waitlistmenu.cfm). You will need to enter your full name and crimson e-mail address to create a username and password and then place yourself on the waiting list. Please note, your status on the waiting list could change frequently, as students add themselves to the list and others are removed. If you place yourself on the waiting list and then secure off-campus housing, please return to the waiting list to remove your name, so that we can try to accommodate other students.</p>
<p>Just curious- are these recontracting spots for students who have free housing or just like to be in dorms on campus? I know that most from around our area move to apartments after freshman year.</p>
<p>Just spoke to a friend whose daughter is a rising sophomore. She had early class so wasn’t able to sign up until midday. She is on a waiting list in the top 200.</p>
<p>hlsess, it is both. Those with housing scholarships are guaranteed housing if they meed the deadlines for recontracting. The other students who got spots (other than medical needs and RAs) appears to be all current first-year students who wanted to stay on campus. Unfortunately, not all who wanted to stay on campus got a spot. This should be just a one year blip in the housing market. A new dorm will open the following year and there will be fewer students with housing scholarships.</p>