<p>Well, a friend and I have decided to dorm together for our freshman year at UCLA. About what period of time should we start applying for housing to get the best possible chance of rooming together?</p>
<p>For the moment we plan to apply around mid-april since we want to check some things out on campus first. Would this be too late?</p>
<p>Check the housing application deadline. As long as you get your application in before the deadline you'll be fine. (I'd look it up for you but I'm taking a quick break from a take-home final and need to get back to work.... ) And I think that somebody else posted in another thread that you'll most likely be assigned to room with the person you sign up with regardless of the time you send in your application just as long as its before the deadline.</p>
<p>i doubt that it matters WHEN you apply, as long as you make deadline. Oh, and you're sure to get your friend as roomate, as long as she requests you as well (like a MySpace friend request, lol)
You get to choose what type of dorm you live in, but not the building. But here's a secret: if you're REALLY, REALLY worried about getting the housing you want, it's better to apply without your friend, b/c they'd have more places to put you. I just finished applying for my 2nd year housing and it's getting a bit competitve</p>
<p>So, people who apply today do NOT have an advantage in getting their first-choice housing preferences than people who apply April 20th (the deadline is beginning of May, I believe)?</p>
<p>It's not a flat out first come first serve?</p>
<p>you are correct. freshmen have very little say in where and who they live with. But if you don't mind shared baths, things can't get too bad.</p>
<p>That is what I've heard.</p>
<p>Luckily, freshman housing is not first-come first-serve. The housing assignments are decided simultaneously, after the housing application deadline has passed. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>do they reserve rooms for freshmen? because as of now, there is not one male double room left at all throughout all of on campus housing.</p>
<p>oh you're having that problem, too? they most definitely reserve rooms for frosh. I was lucky enough to get a double in de neve fir, but am debating switching to a triple in birch</p>
<p>Why would you want to switch from a double to a triple? :rolleyes:</p>
<p>yeah, seriously.. take advantage of the double! it is not that far to visit birch!</p>
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<p>Your luck was largely aided by the fact that housing has a ton of vacancies this year. Last year, a freshman triple in De Neve was pretty much unheard of. From the recent daily bruin article, it sounds like next year plaza freshman doubles will become a rarity again.</p>
<p>What floor do you live on? You might know my g/f, shes the EF pres.</p>
<p>Maybe he/she wants to save $$$, or has some friends in birch, or has a crappy roomate now???</p>
<p>canu apply for housing if youre not sure you wnna go. i just dont wanna end up crappy if i decide to go there</p>
<p>im debating switching because a lot of my friends are gonna be in B4, the AB lounges are so much bigger than in CDEF, and I'm too lazy to walk to dinner or wait for the laundry machines... altho i agree, a triple is a big sacrifice</p>
<p>actually I'm in A4 right now, the closest to campus-you won't believe how spoiled my floormates are. "Rieber Vista?? But, but...I don't wanna walk that far..."</p>
<p>"SHUT UP AND WALK, B#TCH."</p>
<p>Vista? far? try Hedrick Summit, which is where I'm stuck in next year. :(</p>
<p>born2slack... you currently live on A4?! Who are you? I'm on your floor... I'm in one of the rooms at the end of the hallway... what a coincidence!</p>
<p>small world, isn't it, ck? this reminds me of the time I found out I live across the street from your roomate's high school</p>
<p>so... what are the odds of a freshman getting a double in a residence hall? almost zero?</p>
<p>Pretty likely.</p>
<p>Lol... born2slack, I think I know which room you belong to - you're in the triple next door to Bryan right? But, I can't actually say I know which roommate you are since you're all from Sacramento.. Anyway, see ya around...</p>