Please contribute DATA to HOUSING TRICK STATISTICS 2014

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - San Diego
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<p>I am creating this thread (for 2014) to obtain data to establish accuracy of Housing trick. Please post the following information as it would be helpful for next year students, maybe.</p>

<p>Type: (freshman / transfer)
Major: (whatever you major is)
Decision: (accepted/ rejected / waitlisted )
Housing message (before the decision release): (just type "new" for message which say "come back in march/spring blah blah & type "old" if housing status says "you do not have permission to proceed...etc")</p>

<p>PLEASE CONTRIBUTE DATA</p>

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<p>Type: freshman
major: undeclared
decision: accepted
Housing Message: new</p>

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<p>Freshman
Psych
Accepted
New</p>

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<p>I would caution that right before decisions were released everyone posted that their housing status changed to the “new” message. I don’t think that counts. Only post “new” if you had that message the last few days, not just right before decisions posted.</p>

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<p>@USMC0311 most people, including myself didn’t check housing few days back…so I think we should count that even if housing changed a day or two before decision release. </p>

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<p>Initially, everyone had the “your admission status will not allow…”. I believe it was Thursday, people’s status started changing to the “new” message. I know this because I was monitoring it since I knew of this trick from past experience. What I don’t think should count are those whose status changed literally minutes before decisions came out because it seemed everyone’s status changed to the new message at that point. I think If you had the old message this morning, you should post the “old” message.</p>

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<p>@USMC0311 I agree </p>

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<p>Type: freshman
Major: undeclared - social sciences
Decision: accepted
Housing message: new (never saw anything else at any time)</p>

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<p>Cool idea! I think this trick ended up working for most incoming freshman applicants as well as transfer students. </p>

<p>Type: Freshman
Major: General Bio
Decision: Accepted
Housing: New</p>

<p>I’m going to include the info for two of my friends who received decisions today too (they checked their housing status a couple of days ago though)</p>

<p>Type: Freshman
Major: Chem
Decision: Accepted
Housing: New</p>

<p>Type: Freshman
Major: undeclared (?)
Decision: Rejected
Housing: Old</p>

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<p>Type: Freshman
Major: Undeclared
Decision: Waitlisted
Housing message (before the decision release): Old</p>

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<p>Type: freshman
Major: biochem and cell bio
Decision: accepted
Housing: new (since friday)</p>

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<p>If you wanted to be efficient you could create a survey and collect the data that way.</p>

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<p>@bigwords that wouldn’t have helped other future students, i think.</p>

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<p>Type: (freshman)
Major: Physiology and Neuroscience
Decision: accepted
Housing message (before the decision release): New</p>

<p>This is awesomeeeee</p>

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<p>Just a note, I think UCSD did finally catch onto the housing trick because right before decisions came out, they changed the message to something along the lines of “all accepted applicants will receive the application in late-March.” From now on, that might be the message that everyone sees, no matter their admissions status, so I wouldn’t be surprised if the trick won’t work in future years. </p>

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<p>Freshman
Accepted w/ Regents
New housing message and phone call a couple of days ahead</p>

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<p>Type: Freshman
Major: Computer Science
Decision: Waitlisted
Housing: Old</p>

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<p>Type: Freshman
Major: Physiology and Neuroscience
Decision: Accepted
Housing message: New</p>

<p>:)</p>

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<p>Type: Freshman
Major: Cognitive Science
Decision: Accepted
Housing message: New, even after when UCSD supposedly caught on with the trick and fixed it.</p>

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<p>@batsheep i think ucsd never fixed it…they just did “not available” thing to decrease traffic to their sites so that their servers don’t crash</p>