<p>Is housing assigned completely based on lottery or is it first come first serve. If it is lottery, is there any way to improve chances of getting your first choice? Also, what dorms fill up the fastest (most desirable per slots available).</p>
<p>Its based on that $25 you paid to get a priority date. If you haven't sent that in yet. You need to mail it tomorrow.</p>
<p>I sent that in months ago. But does sending that in sooner rather than later give you preference as to which dorm?</p>
<p>Yes, once the housing dept gets the money they give you a priority date. The date places you on a list by dates on who gets there first choice of housing dorms. I usually brake it down like this.</p>
<p>June-Sept/Oct---> you will get your first choice of dorm
Oct-Dec---> 50/50 if you will get your first choice
Jan-Feb---> likely will be 1st if its not a popular area and 2nd or 3rd if you asked for popular areas
March-May---->temp triples and perm. triples in you 2nd or 3rd choice</p>
<p>thats reassuring to hear. i was afraid that it was completely random. thanks</p>
<p>After you get your acceptance letter, you should receive a letter from housing asking you to pick you top three dorms for Fall 2007 or summer (whenever your starting). You can also request your roommate if you have a friend going there (be careful with this, I have seen friend hate each other after they lived together and others get closer).</p>
<p>im still debating what dorm room to get haha. if i should go in a double or single (i want broward no matter what)</p>
<p>There are very few singles in broward, but if you have an early priority date then that shouldnt be a problem.</p>
<p>....The freshman type dorms (Jennings, Broward, Rawling, Yulee, Mallory, Trustler, Simpson, Graham, Tolbert, East, Weaver, North) generally dont have as many singles as the Murphree area and Springs (I think).</p>
<p>what do you think? should i go for a double or single?</p>
<p>Heres my question for ya. In the preference form, i know you can pick either "dorm room" priority or type of room priority. is there way to say "i want a single in broward (not a single elsewhere). if thats not possible, a double in broward"</p>
<p>I would just go with a double, single is hard to get in traditional community style floors, but you can always try if you want. I think there is only one single on each floor in broward. Murphree area has much more singles that those other types of dorms.</p>
<p>when you do housing there isnt a "i only want this" option..like asmaj said just go for the double because you will have a slim chance getting a single, not saying its immpossible but unlikely</p>
<p>Got it. i dont really mind a double that much anyways. just wish my would've-been-roomate had gotten in :/</p>
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June-Sept/Oct---> you will get your first choice of dorm
Oct-Dec---> 50/50 if you will get your first choice
Jan-Feb---> likely will be 1st if its not a popular area and 2nd or 3rd if you asked for popular areas
March-May---->temp triples and perm. triples in you 2nd or 3rd choice
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<p>When I applied to UF last year, my priority date was October 17th. However, I was really pushing for other schools and by the time I realized that I had to send in my second Housing agreement, it was past my priority date, and I got reassigned to March 31st. I still got my first choice, and with the roommate I requested, to boot. I really don't know how that happened.</p>
<p>"When I applied to UF last year, my priority date was October 17th. However, I was really pushing for other schools and by the time I realized that I had to send in my second Housing agreement, it was past my priority date, and I got reassigned to March 31st. I still got my first choice, and with the roommate I requested, to boot. I really don't know how that happened."</p>
<p>That happened because you are in honors...you got bumped in priority to be in the honors dorm. Kids who are not in honors have odds like ASMAJ stated.
My daughter had an Oct. 12 priority date and got her first choice of a double in Broward. Her friend, with a December priority date, got her second choice of a double in Jennings. The form will ask you what is your priority...Dorm OR Room type (double, single, triple). We do not know ANY freshman who were assigned singles. There are two permanent triples on my daughter's floor in Broward and there was one temporary triple (which has since been detripled...to a double).</p>
<p>I live in a double in Yulee if anyone has any questions about it. My priority date was in late december and a I received my second choice (Yulee, double). </p>
<p>My floor is very small.. about 8 doubles and a single (RA)</p>
<p>Are there lots of freshman in Yulee? How far is it usually to classes?</p>
<p>Yulee is beside broward, so relatively close to classes. Closeness to class is kind of hard to tell because your classes might be all over. Most freshmen classes are about 3-15 mins away for broward/yulee/mallory/reid/rawlings. For example carlton auditorium can hold 700 students and thats where they have alot of the large freshmen class (micro-eco, theater appre., stats, etc). Carlton is about 3-5 min walk from broward area(listed above).</p>
<p>...the good things about yulee/mallory/reid is that they have the really, really nice bathrooms. I know mallory installed theirs last summer and the rest will get it next summer.</p>
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<p>I would say so.. I'm a guy and this year there's about 1.5 floors (ground floor and 1st floor which is the main entrance, so it's not a full floor) occupied by males. I would say most (90%) of the guys in Yulee are freshmen</p>
<p>ditto on everything ASMAJ said</p>