<p>I am from CA & on the priority waitlist for SCS. Few questions:</p>
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<li>Does it help to visit the campus, to show interest in CMU?</li>
<li>What can be done during the campus visit in addition to attending 30 min session for waitlist students and general campus tour?</li>
<li>Is it true priority waitlist students will end up at the off-campus appartments due to late registration?</li>
<li>Does folks on priority waitlist file SIR at other colleges since May 1st is deadline for most of the colleges?</li>
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<li>Probably not, if you take the priority they know you are interested.</li>
<li>See how you really like the school.</li>
<li>No. That was last year and it only happened to a handful of kids due to overenrollment. </li>
<li>Don't know what this means but you send in your deposit at another college and if you get off the CMU waitlist, you got to CMU and you lose your deposit at that other school.</li>
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<p>I didn't want to start a new thread.. I didn't want to clutter the board.
So I saw the topic was questions and hope someone knows the answer to this:</p>
<p>What banks are there there.. like, close to the campus (or on campus)? If Valley National isn't there, I'm goign to have to cancel my current account and start an account at one of the banks there..</p>
<p>haven't heard of Valley National, though you can search on their site (use zip code 15213 for CMU area, but not CMU mailboxes...that's 15289).</p>
<p>The big banks here (with ATMs on campus) are PNC bank and Citizens bank. PNC has a branch in the basement of the UC, ATMs on the mainfloor and basement, and an ATM in the undergound. I know Citizens has ATMs around campus too (I use PNC). Don't worry too much about setting up a bank account before you get here, they have tables on move-in day and give away T-shirts and giftcards for enrolling in their bank. I'd recommend PNC, just becuase they're more available, bad consumer, I know)</p>
<p>I read somewhere on this board that dorm allocation is based on first come first served, right? Doesn't that mean by the time waitlist students pay their deposit you are pretty much to the bottom 5% of choice. Is that correct?</p>
<p>Thats what I was worried about. But in the previous reply, AA said that was an exception last year.</p>
<p>In anycase, would anyone shed little more light on
- what these off-campus housing will be like?
- will you be with some other upper classmen?
- is anyone on this board been through off-campus housing during freshman year?</p>
<p>Can any previous year students who got accepted from the priority waitlist - describe how your freshman year housing ended up? Were you placed in temporary housing? When did you file enrollment? what were your dorm choices and how the final allotment turned out?</p>