Room selection is in June. Does anyone know around when Housing releases the timeslots we use for picking our rooms?
I don’t, but am also curious how the process works. Do you find out which dorm you are assigned to and your room selection timeslot at the same time?
I logged into the housing portal this morning and the LLC section is closed. Maybe this means the timeslots come out soon?
my S19 received an email yesterday saying he has “Honors Quad” room selection on 6/5. We are confused since he did not put down the Honors Quad as his first choice - he actually chose a non-honors dorm as first choice. It was bot clear whether he did not receive the first selection or whether he is given the opportunity to opt into Honors housing if he wants to rather than wait for selection on non-honors housing. We did not see the email until last night, so will have to call Monday morning to follow up. Anyone else have this type of experience?
@DTXMom I think he still got the honors student selection time. He should be able to pick anything else if he doesn‘t want to stay in the Quad unless his honors or scholar requires him to stay with a certain group.
@MomJojo - update: we called UT housing and were told that they do the Honors process first - so if he wants Honors he needs to go through the process at the time he’s been assigned for 6/5. If not, he can opt out of Honors and try for any of the non-honors dorms. If he does that, he would be given a new room selection time slot for a later date.
Continued - I forgot to say - if he goes through Honors process we were told only the Honors dorms would “show” in the portal as choices during that selection period.
We watched this video last night and it was very helpful in understanding how to use the portal to select room.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkBVNvvb2Zs
Thank you for posting that video. That was very helpful. My D rec’d an email this morning saying that her self-selection time slot is June 17th-June 28th.
Mine too! the video was very helpful
@TexasK8 and @egginmegan - you’re welcome. Your kids both have very early timeslots! That’s great. My S19 called yesterday (again) and was told he also has an early timeslot if he were to choose regular process - June 18-19. He was encouraged by that and decided to opt out of Honors since he wants a different dorm more.They told him there are 160 students per timeslot and he’s in the 3rd one, so basically 320 students (including your kids) will be ahead of his group, which doesn’t sound too bad.
Y’all this process was stressful for my daughter. She had the 10am timeslot today. She got on right at 10. She wants to live in the honors quad and has a roommate already selected. The roommate and she really wanted Carrothers. Carrothers 1st and 3rd floors were almost completely full already. We did not expect that. Were there that many earlier timeslots?
The system was very frenzied and frustrating. They were both on there trying to click on various options, and I guess the system kept resetting or changing the info. So like one minute a room is empty, the next it’s gone. Then you click somewhere else and it’s open again. I guess it’s like buying tickets for a highly popular show - seats are being released, taken, released again.
They ended up with Blanton first floor. No sinks in Blanton, which is what we were trying to avoid. Carrothers second floor had some openings but there weren’t any rooms that were totally empty, they all had a student in them already. I guess that’s the downside to having a roommate selected already. It’s harder to find a room with both beds available.
All in all, we weren’t impressed by this interface. We should’ve watched the video posted above. We didn’t see that until now, and she found the whole thing quite unintuitive.
@Meadow530 thanks for sharing your D’s experience. I wonder if Upper classmen returning to the dorm have had first pick at some earlier time, therefore some spots are already occupied?
Supposedly all freshmen have priority housing registration. But who knows, maybe there is some variable I’m not aware of…
Most honors are required to live 2 years on campus. So returning Honors Students probably already got their pick. For all the other dorms they reserve 90% for Freshman.
My D‘s room selection is on her first day of Orientation on June 17th, I hope it all goes well since she has to log on to the campus WiFi.
But it puts me a little at ease that they have „only“ 160 for each time slot, smaller chance of the system to crash.
Thank you for that Info.
@Meadowland the Video is posted when you go through your Housing application as no. 4 or so.
It is helpful for sure.
Oh I’ve never heard of anyone being required to live on campus. (My daughter is Plan 2, which doesn’t require living on campus at all.) From what we can tell, it’s only been freshmen who have been allowed to sign up so far. I guess they just all wanted Carothers! We were laughing because we couldn’t figure out why 3rd floor was all taken but 2nd floor had more choices. Maybe people think that’s quieter or something.
I do like that you could look at the floor layouts ahead of time. Some rooms are just flat out bigger than others. So I guess the people who went very first were able to grab the biggest ones and the ones that were best situated. I think first floor will be convenient at least! And I think I remember reading something about individual temperature controls so I will have to go back and see whether it’s Blanton that has those.
Carothers has a LLC, they probably blocked out a few rooms for them.
I believe the LLC in Jester already had their rooms assigned last week.
My son was in Carothers this past year. Being in Honors doesn’t require 2 years on campus in the Honors dorm. The floors are alternately male/female in Carothers. Everyone, including returning students, are given the one time slot to select their housing in the Honors dorm selection process and it is a mad rush for sure. The only other thing I would say is that Carothers is incredibly quiet and there wasn’t much socialization at all in my son’s floor. The RA didn’t put much effort at all into social events/getting the kids together or even letting them know what was happening in the quad. That isn’t always the case - I know in Andrews, for example, the RA’s were more active. From what my son says, all the dorms are quiet for studying, but Blanton is the most social.
Our LH lived in Blanton last year and enjoyed it. Upperclass kids do have the option to live in the honors dorm their second year if they like., That room selection process took place in the spring. I suspect that there is a limit on the number of rooms in the honors quad that are available to non-freshmen, leaving the bulk of the rooms in the honors quad open to incoming freshmen.
@DTXMom so the first non-honors room selection is June 17? or does it start earlier?