Housing

Colleges & Universities A-Z University of Maryland - College Park
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<p>So a bunch of my friends just left for the protest on McKeldin Mall. I would've gone had I not been feeling sick all day Should be interesting to see how strong the support is and if they can maintain it through the open house this Friday. They have a permit through 2pm Friday. Since this is the University of Maryland, I'm expecting interesting signs and chants. I'll check it out tomorrow.</p>

<p>News report: <a href="http://www.nbc4.com/news/11591403/detail.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nbc4.com/news/11591403/detail.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>If you haven't heard, last week ResLife recently informed over 600 rising seniors who had requested housing that they will not be receiving on-campus housing next year. Fall 2007 will therefore be the first semester that no seniors will be on campus (South Campus Commons excluded). Despite this, the University is still over 600 beds given the anticipated amount of incoming freshmen who will request housing. That means more doubles will become forced triples, more lounges will become rooms, and thus more students will be inconvenienced.</p>

<p>In 2005, the Board of Regents shot down a proposal to build a new 500-bed dorm on North Campus. Wouldn't have solved the immediate crunch, but at least it would have been a step in the right direction. This is one of the main actions being protested, along with the late notification by reslife of the situation.</p>

<p>So yeah, people are pretty ****ed off around here.</p>

<p>I was wondering if this info is influencing any of you prospective students, or if any of current students are affected. I'm concerned that this shortage will lead the View and Towers to raise their rents over the next couple of years because they know students will have no other good choices. If I don't get Commons junior year, I might be facing very steep rents for off-campus housing.</p>

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<p>yeah housings becoming a big thing for me..
I'm trying to decide between md and another school.. at the other school housing seemed good and off campus is a lot cheaper than around md
and now I just keep hearing about shortages and lotteries and all this stuff.. and its kind of a deterrent because the dorms are worse at md anyway</p>

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<p>It's a big factor in my d decision...... she is trying to decide now if she will go to UMCP next year........ Although there are other things that will influence her decision, housing is a BIG one. (also for mom) I want my kids to live on campus.... it's part of the college experience. plus, I really don't want to have to get them a car.......</p>

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<p>i am probly going to another school over umd because of other reasons but the housing kind of locked umd out. other schools are investing millions into nicer dorms with ammenities while umd has very small rooms with no ac and to top it off there isnt any housing towards upperclass. definite things that make ppl look elsewhere</p>

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<p>yeah they were tenting last night, i saw like 15 tents :D all the news channels were there.</p>

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<p>In the Cambridge Community, are CP Scholars from the same program roomed together? Is everyone on the floor in the same CP Scholars program?</p>

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<p>Worrywart, in short, yes. Lemme copy and past from my ARG.</p>

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<p>One thing I have to keep telling people about UMD dorms. They're not that small--very comfortable actually, unless you're in Honors Humanities...then you're SOL in Wicomico. The high rises are just fine. And AC only matters for the first and last couple weeks of the year. But yeah, the shortage is my primary concern, even though I was probably going to move off campus as a junior anyway.</p>

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<p>This won't affect my decision that much. My house is 15 minutes away from campus so if all else fails, I can just move back in with my mom.</p>

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<p>Do most sophomores get housing? And if you're in honors, are you more likely than other upperclassmen to get a dorm? I.e. Anne Arundel is for honors kids, and I know there's hardly any freshmen in it...so one would think most honors sophomores who request it, get in, right? It would suck if they tout an honors dorm that only a limited number of honors upperclassmen can use. Also it seems like the writing house/language house would be other popular choices for upperclassmen. I'm wondering if I would be immune to this housing crunch <em>crosses fingers</em>.</p>

<p>Most likely as a senior at the latest I'll want to move off-campus, anyway, but it would be nice to know I'll prob. get housing through junior year.</p>

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<p>personally, i feel like a lot of people in this thread are blowing the situation WAY out of proportion.</p>

<p>therascalking-- the housing situation is affecting seniors only. therefore, yes, sophomores get housing. most honors sophomores do live in anne arundel or queen anne's. of course, there are only a certain number of rooms so if the requests overfill the number of rooms, the honors sophomores have to pick somewhere else to live. if by "upperclassmen" you're referring to sophomores, again, you really have nothing at all to worry about.</p>

<p>most people move off-campus in their junior or senior year anyway. you can live on campus for two years and still get a great "campus life" experience. i only lived on campus for one year and was very ready to move off, although i met a lot of great people and had plenty of fun.</p>

<p>yes, it REALLY sucks that this happened. personally i know of three people who were affected by this and now have to find off-campus housing (still VERY readily available, though maybe not within walking distance of campus). but the fact that it happened this year means it probably won't be happening in the future. either people will get smarter and realize "no guaranteed housing" means just that, or the regents will get smarter and realize they need to give people more notice about matters like housing.</p>

<p>i think that would be pretty bad, if a housing shortage for seniors [also... less than 2.5% of undergrad students] was someone's deciding factor not to come to UMD. after all, freshmen are guaranteed housing on-campus if they want it.</p>

<p>just my opinion. again, i feel really bad for everyone this is affecting, but i have faith that the situation will be worked out for future students.</p>

<p>pollyo-- enjoy your air conditioned room and "ammenities". judging from your other posts, i assume you're talking about UMBC? yeah, the dorms there are pretty decent. i'd rather be at UMD, personally, even though "there isn't any housing towards upperclass". you put it so eloquently, how can i not be convinced? :) [just messing with you]</p>

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<p>I think he meant there is no housing for upperclassmen.</p>

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<p>i was at UMCP today to work on a project for school and McKeldin is AWESOME!, and I saw Darcy Spencer reportinf for NBC4 (?) about the housing situation.</p>

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<p>I'm applying as a transfer this year, I'll be a junior in the fall 07 semester, if and when I'm admitted is it a guarantee that I will get housing? And is there anything I can do to increase the chances?</p>

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<p>Transfer students typically do not receive on campus housing.</p>

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<p>I am really confused about signing up for housing as a freshman. If you check that you want to live on-campus on your Maryland Planner when you confirm your enrollment, is that all you have to do? Will you automatically be given a room in the designated dorm for your particular Scholars program?</p>

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<p>Yes, that's all you have to do. You fill out the short questionnaire, send in the agreement, and ResLife will house you accordingly. They send out the room assignments in August.</p>