Yes, priority registration for housing and classes went away two years ago now (I think that’s the right timing). My D was very worried about that but it had zero impact for her getting housing (she stayed on campus until junior year because of co-op) and had zero impact on getting classes.
What my D said is that you may not get the exact day/time you want for the class, but you will get into the class. Department heads can override too if it is a needed class for the major.
I stayed up late last night reading about the housing crisis, eek! So your D didn’t have trouble staying on campus? Do you think that would be the case now? Do you know if the honors housing is doing the forced triples, etc that happened last year?
My D had no issues staying on campus. My understanding is that the university is prioritizing housing for freshmen but have designated certain dorms for upperclassmen only. I’d ask housing though what percentage of returning students who want to stay on campus are able to do so. (The housing situation seems to change so frequently.)
I will say that there is ample off campus housing which typically ends up being much less costly than room and board. Plus some complexes that are “off campus” are actually closer to classes than some of the dorms.
As far as honors, my D was in a forced quad in honors her freshman year. We were worried but It worked out great and it was a really big room. Ample space for 4 students. Overflow in W. Parker is relatively new so I’m not sure how much space honors reserves there and if that lessens the density in Honors N/S or if they just needed to expand. (Another question to ask housing).
Congratulations for those accepted! Did any of you apply after RD deadline? It seems not many applicants for RD? Who are on the same boat for RD?
Does anyone know anything about the Emerging Leaders Scholars program? It seems like you keep the scholarship even if you don’t do the scholars program, but that doing the scholars program is encouraged. DS isn’t sure about the summer Early Start since he has a good job lined up, but the program sounds great. There are some virtual welcome events coming up that we will do, but I thought I’d see if anyone here has any experience with it.
We are debating which dates to sign up for in person tours at the moment. Are the virtual ones pretty informative too? Maybe we could do one of those first? Which/where can we find the virtual welcome events to sign up?
Emerging Scholars has required the Summer Start and looks like it still does from the FAQ. You can keep the scholarship if you meet the GPA standards even if you don’t do other “scholar” things but you have to start with the group as an incoming freshman over the summer unless there are extenuating circumstances.
Everyone with a Jan 13th decision applied by Nov 1st.
There are some higher-end construction projects off campus underway but the slack in the off campus housing inventory that existed 4 years ago is gone despite new inventory.
Purdue housing cleared thousands of students from on-campus housing through a series of hoops that many students didn’t realize existed when it was time to renew in the fall. Weirdly many of the apartments near campus start doing leases for the following school year on Labor Day weekend. By late Oct there are waitlists for the most popular apartments. Because of this, there are always sublets because kids sign leases and then plans change.
The most important thing about housing is once you leave dorm life, you can’t come back unless you gave up your spot for a co-op job or military obligation.
My daughter will have the same roommate as this year and they are staying in the honors dorm next year. I think freshmen in 2023 will have a smoother experience, however, because the university set aside a bunch of dorms just for freshman and changed how the upperclassmen pick their rooms. It also seems admission was tighter this year, and while I feel bad for those who really wanted to attend Purdue and did not get in, the troubles the campus had from oversubscribing the past two years needed to be addressed. Hopefully these measures will help.
When son joined EPICS in 2021- he simply applied to be in the LC during his housing application process (NOTE - Learning Communities needed to be applied to BEFORE the drop dead housing deadline). If you miss the LC deadline, you may be out of luck for LC - waitlists might happen, but not for sure. He had to wait and see if he got the LC. Once he learned he was in the LC – he had to jump on that email. It contained in a google doc link to sign up for a specific team within EPICS. It was first come, first claim for all the spots.
Each project within EPICS can vary in subject matter. His first choice was filled, but he still got a fun project. It is a massive range of subjects. My advice is - don’t wait until final deadlines for anything, and open and read all communications.
For us, the Purdue For Me days sealed the deal. I highly recommend them, especially if you are on the fence. I posted details earlier in this thread. I don’t think a brief online info session can replace spending an entire day on campus, dining with students and administrators representing your student’s major, seeing the spaces, etc.
This is very helpful. Do you get the sense that most of the students who wanted to remain on campus were able to do so? My biggest fear is that as a new freshmen, she’ll find out that she can’t get on-campus housing again, and it will be too late to get her a nice apartment. Not sure if this is a realistic fear? Did your D come in with the roomie, or were they assigned?
The most common posts I see on our year’s parent FB group is people needing to sublet apartments. There always seem to be apartments available, even well into the semester.
Time slots were a lottery by credit level this year, which was new, but you can assemble a room using one person’s lottery slot and “grouping” with others.
All of her friends who wanted to remain on campus did, in fact, get to stay on campus, but very few got their first-choice dorm or campus owned apartment. I fully expected my daughter to move off campus her sophomore year, but she wanted to stay with the roommate and the roommate’s mom wanted her daughter on campus, so my daughter stayed too. She knew her roommate before coming to Purdue because they had worked together. They were from different high schools but in the same school district, and neither one knew the other was attending Purdue until they met up on the Patio app. They decided to room together. Purdue will tell you - and I think it is true - that there is statistically little difference in the success and outcome between finding your own roommate and getting randomly matched. So, if your student finds someone they want to room with, great, but there should be absolutely no pressure or feeling that the burden is on them. Momofboiler1 is absolutely correct that there are constantly folks looking for sublets near campus. Pretty much ALL the apartments make students sign year-long leases, and inevitably some kids decide to study abroad, do a co-op somewhere else, drop out, etc. Fall or spring, there is something. The organized parent will deeply stress about the last minute of it all, but these things always have a way of working out. Plus, there is really no shortage of apartments whatsoever. It is merely a question of how far one is willing to go. If you’re willing to drive three miles, you can pretty much live cheaper and larger than you can in a dorm room. If you want walking distance, however, you might have to be prepared to pay for the convenience.
And to tag on to Groundwork2022’s excellent post - all the major apartment complexes that aren’t an easy walk to campus have a bus stop so it’s very easy to get to campus. And if a student lives more than a mile away, they can get a computer parking pass if they have a car.
Living a few miles off campus and driving in creates the need for parking, which is also tight and frequently means parking at the airport or Ross-Ade as a “commuter.” The busses are great unless it’s late at night and they aren’t running. The City of West Lafayette is concerned about housing and the lack of vacancies near campus. No 18-year-old is excited to live in some random apartment complex on the other side of the river in Lafayette.
My D lived NW of the stadium one year and there were 4 huge apartment complexes adjacent to each other which were all filled with Purdue students. She said buses ran until close to midnight but she did drive in most days unless the weather was bad. Lots of carpooling happening amongst her friend group as well.
For the record though, she did move to Chauncey for her senior year but she sacrificed a ton of space to do so.
October 14-16. Given the schedule of home football games, the fact that it won’t be in the first few weeks, won’t be Thanksgiving, and has never been as late as November in my 6 years experience, I’m quite confident it will be October 13-15. I’m also holding a room for November 10-12, but that’s very unlikely.
I’ve stayed at every Marriott and Hilton, and all have been fine/typical for the brand, except for the Four Points. It has a 2.2 rating for a reason. Avoid if possible.
My older daughter was on campus for housing all four years, two at a campus operated 4BR apartment, and my younger will be in campus housing at least through next year. Neither ever had a problem. I know there were significant issues Fall of 2021, due to unexpected yield, but I heard no issues this fall. Perhaps I missed it. The school significantly expanded their inventory this year.
I don’t know much about the many dorms. There are a few “Purdue dorms ranked” sites that can be useful. Shreve/Earnhardt are the same traditional shoebox Freshman dorms at they were decades ago, though with A/C. To me, it’s part of the college experience. My youngest is in a ridiculously large single in the Honors dorm and missed out on that experience. The other apartments my older lived in are unlikely to be options for Freshmen.
Check the housing rules, but “stay in your previous room” was the first priority on campus housing choice last I looked. If you’re displaced (can’t stay in the Freshman engineering dorm, for example), you had priority. I know the process has changed, but I’d be surprised if someone in campus housing can’t keep campus housing somewhere. One of the clear message previously was “if you move out of campus housing, don’t expect to move back in the future”.