<p>I just looked up my "Current Activity" in Albert and saw that my housing fees have been added to my bill! By looking at said housing charges, I was able to determine that in the fall, I'll be in A Rubin Low Cost Triple!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!! I'm excited and scared....THREE people in one tiny room, from what I hear!!!</p>
<p>I hope what I did doesn't qualify as "hacking", and if it does, well, I'll erase this immediately.</p>
<p>I'm in Rubin, as well, but I didn't get a triple room, which is what I applied for...so, I'm really bummed about that, especially since it adds over $2000 to what I had wanted to pay for the first year. Plus, I was looking forward to having two roomates. Oh, well...at least I got to be on a CHOICES floor.</p>
<p>Also, they put me on a 14 meals/wk. plan but I want the 10 meals/wk. Anyone know how we are supposed to change this?</p>
<p>I need low cost.</p>
<p>I checked and mine says 5582 for housing. Is that the low cost Rubin?</p>
<p>Ok, im a little worried - mine just said $7470 - WTH? - I said LOW COST NYU - damn, im not going to pay nearly 15K for a room per year.</p>
<p>Is that cost only for fall?</p>
<p>Nothing matches up for either the cost for just fall or the cost times two on the rates page.</p>
<p>hmmm i got the 5582 one as well... im guessing it should be only for this fall cuz i had hayden and uhall as my first and second choices and im ED so... =\ and yeah the rates dont match up</p>
<p>Oh my god. </p>
<p>I cannot pay 11000 for housing. No way. It isn't that I don't WANT to pay...it's that I can't. </p>
<p>I was ED as well and had all low cost dorms as my first choice.</p>
<p>Ya, it does say ESTIMATED cost and my rate does not match with the others on the page. Either way, how the hell did NYU come up with a FALL payment of 7470 when I said i wanted LOW COST HOUSING. I can already tell this is going to be a miserable year financially...</p>
<p>I just emailed the housing people.</p>
<p>Should I call instead?</p>
<p>The thing is...if I can't pay for housing..I can't go to NYU.</p>
<p>I don't even know what dorm for freshman you could get with 14,000. It's way too high.</p>
<p>jamelajolie-what does your say?</p>
<p>if it says estimated cost, it means your dorm is not up yet. when you are assigned, it will say the name of a specific dorm (aka- Rubin Double, Hayden LCT etc)</p>
<p>If they don't correspond to a dorm, then how do they decide how to estimate each cost when they are estimating all different costs for all of us?</p>
<p>mine says Rubin 4,140.00. this seems really low. is this a low cost triple? becuase I didnt put I wanted one</p>
<p>I think you got the regular dorm, not low cost, Rubin. </p>
<p>Mine does say estimated but why are they estimating it so high?</p>
<p>My son's says 5582- he requested Rubin but not LCH. It also says 14 meal plan which he does not want-I guess we wait for the letter for the real scoop.</p>
<p>I just noticed, Outono, you aren't a freshman so I guess it could be correct. </p>
<p>You should contact them.</p>
<p>mine says $5582.50 - Estimated Charge... I put Rubin first but I highly doubt I got it... any ideas? prolly Hayden or Weinstein? I REALLY don't want weinstein</p>
<p>Does anyone know if the housing department has ever changed a dorm because of cost?</p>
<p>i think 5582 is hayden or weinstein. if you look at the rates thing on the nyu housing site, it shows the rates for the full 2006/7 year which is about double what is shown on albert, which only shows the cost for the fall 2006 semester. this is just my guess though.</p>