<p>Is it possible to apply for both university housing and private housing?
If you applied as soon as the online application was available (yesterday), then is your first choice more or less guaranteed even if it was one of those that are hard for freshmen to get into?</p>
<p>BUMP same question. I applied within the first 5 mins for housing. Are our chances good?</p>
<p>are your chances good? yes. the sooner you apply the better, since you are clocked into place as soon as you pay the $100.</p>
<p>is ANYTHING a guarantee around UIUC? lmao, NEVER.</p>
<p>but, yeah, your chances of getting your first choice are very good.</p>
<p>Do you have to accept the admissions offer before applying for housing?</p>
<p>no, but you do have to drop a $50 deposit, I believe. I wouldn't wait till may 1st to apply for housing though... youd end up in PAR/FAR...</p>
<p>Hi taffy, my friend (currently at UIUC) actually recommended PAR Saunders Global Crossroads. Taffy, are you at UIUC now?</p>
<p>yes, and id kill myself if i had to live in PAR/FAR.</p>
<p>it all depends on what you want in a dorm. if you want a more social dorm right next to the frats and in a good location next to impe, the library, armory, stadium, within walking distance of the quad, then obviously go with the six pack (I did, good choice)</p>
<p>if you want an engineering dorm with LAN parties and people who like to argue about who has a harder life due to their courseload, go ISR</p>
<p>PAR/FAR seems to be the minorities that got their housing applications in way too late and got stuck in the southeast corner of campus. it isnt known as much of a social dorm.</p>
<p>lots more dorm discussion is probably in this forum, you can use the search function or just scan the thread titles, or PM me cause i dont frequent the forums much since i have a real life now.</p>
<p>Taffy, the 2007 acceptance material and the staffer I called now stress that the accepted student MUST respond and accept the offer (and then get the online passcode etc) BEFORE applying for housing. This is NEW for 07-08. Killing us because we planned for D to apply for Allen as soon as she was accepted--now we have to sweat out a month while she makes up her mind for which of the 11 (really top 3) schools she will choose) and that might cost her a spot in Allen. The forms still say you can get a refund of deposit if you break housing contract before May 1 (but if you wait till after that may be charged $1200+). But I don't think it is kosher (or even legit??) to accept at one school, then change mind choose another before May 1 but AFTER making the official commitment to the first. (anyone care to comment on that???)</p>
<p>I can't make your moral decisions for you, but this seems like some BS. this will just make the dorms that are high in demand, like the six pack, full of students who barely got in and have U of I as a reach school, and have the crappy dorms full of people who were hoping to get into a different school. It seems like the university should be using the six pack as a bargaining chip to get more students to decide to go here.</p>
<p>taffy, you a student of UIUC? what course?</p>
<p>something you shoudl remind your daughter is that she can transfer schools whenever she wants.</p>
<p>"taffy, you a student of UIUC? what course?"</p>
<p>yes i am. aviation.</p>
<p>I don't think D wants to accept UI just to get a spot in Allen then in mid April transfer to an LAC--in any event she will have forfeited those 1/2 tuition scholarships. Transfers usually only work after 1 or 2 yrs, not 1 or 2 mos. She is sending in housing forms to the other 2 choices and will visit these schools for overnights this mo or next. She will know her last major scholarship offer in 4-5 weeks, then can pretty well determine where she will go. I can get her other school to give me a reliable 'early estimate' on her FA packages. And since she has preapdid tuition for U of IL, she really just needs to rule in or rule out the LACs. We were told the real housing crunch won't come till after March 15 when the 'regular' admissions notifications are sent out, that the Dec 15 notices went to a minority of the total freshman class. The university is trying these changes in admissions and housing for the first time this year, so it is a bit confusing for staff and students.</p>