<p>I heard that juniors and seniors are sometimes forced to move off campus because the residences can't accomodate them plus the freshmen and sophomores. Is this true and, if so, is the administration doing anything to alleviate this problem?</p>
<p>When I visited, I think they said that over the last several years they have been able to provide housing to anyone requesting it, but that it wasn't guaranteed, as they don't know how many freshmen will enroll or how many upperclassmen will request housing any given year.</p>
<p>The way it works is that freshmen and sophomore are guaranteed housing, but seniors and juniors have the best lottery numbers and get first pick. Every junior and senior who wants housing gets it. (And by "wants housing" I mean, shows up to the housing lottery looking for a room).</p>
<p>However, since "off-campus" at Tufts can sometimes mean that it's closer to your classes than your dorm - since landlords specifically have properties a block away to rent to us - since many people PREFER having an apartment with friends, with a kitchen, and a driveway, to living in a dorm - many Tufts students live off-campus. They're not "forced," but usually just choose to. For example, I had a really good lottery number junior year, but my friends didn't, and were living off-campus. I decided I didn't want to be the lone junior on a sophomore hallway, and I looooove living off-campus now.</p>
<p>What the administration is doing to solve the problem? They built a brand new suite-style dorm for seniors only, and made the dorm next door to it a seniors-only dorm too, to try and create a senior "corridor" on campus. Another thing they're doing is...ACCEPTING LESS PEOPLE, which should ease the housing shortage. </p>
<p>Anyway, if for whatever reason you don't want to live off-campus, it's almost certain you'll get housing as an upperclassman. It might be a single in Hodgdon, but it'll be on campus! lol.</p>
<p>Actually, for this coming year, I am forced to live off campus; owing to the housing-crunch (but I had a REALLY bad lottery number).</p>
<p>oh. my bad. they keep saying that every junior and senior who wants housing gets it.</p>
<p>It's definitely not true that every student gets campus housing if they want it. My son is a junior this year and couldn't get campus housing. It can be very expensive to live off campus</p>
<p>"Every junior and senior who wants housing gets it. (And by "wants housing" I mean, shows up to the housing lottery looking for a room)."
They've said this, but it wasn't true this year. They only gave about a hundred/two hundred or so juniors housing (I forget the numbers), mostly to avoid putting sophomores on a waitlist. So while there is usually enough housing to accommodate upperclassmen who want to live on campus, this year they cut down big time. So basically, our class got screwed twice over, getting put on waitlists sophomore year and not getting any housing this year.</p>