<p>Has anyone heard anything about housing info yet? They said mid-July, and it's almost mid-July, and it seemed as though they sent all the other information a few weeks ahead of schedule.</p>
<p>Columbia's housing department is staffed by among the most inept bureaucrats at the university. Expect to wait until the last minute. Though they'll most likely be sure to send materials for freshmen, they didn't assign summer housing this year until residents arrived to move in (i.e., they went to the housing office with all their stuff and THEN were directed to whichever room in whichever dorm). It was chaos. They also billed me for summer housing when I'm at home for the summer in another state. When I was at the office last spring, they turned away a long line of people in order to simultaneously take lunch. </p>
<p>In short, expect little from them, and avoid dealing with them as much as possible.</p>