<p>Last year was first year for Ridgecrest…could be why there were emptys… I know that they were trying to put incoming freshmen there and they may be gradually increasing the size of the freshman class…a major university that actually plans ahead!</p>
<p>but i would think if you were an honors student and you wanted honors housing and landed on 4 or 5 that that WOULD be considered “honors” housing with regard to your future housing requests. if not, that is messed up, especially since all info points to RCSN as being honors!</p>
<p>I think the issue is that if you’re an honors student who picks those top floors, you need to stay in those top floors for later years (if you wish to stay in campus housing). Otherwise, they would have too many returning honors students competing for the honors designated rooms and there would be an even greater shortfall for incoming freshmen.</p>
<p>My son is in honors, Riverside West, fourth floor, with a roomie he found on Roommate Finder. The reason I still look is, number one, I have been emailed by other parents for help with finding honors rooms, and because we picked early, I was able to view openings before others. I think everyone can view openings now, so that reason may be moot.</p>
<p>Two other boys are in my son’s suite, who they don’t know, and my son and his chosen roomie have been contacted by a friend of theirs who wants one of them to switch with him so he can room with his friends. Neither my son nor his chosen roomie want to do this, as they’re happy where they are and went through the effort of getting proxy codes to ensure they’d be together and in Riverside, their first choice. </p>
<p>I check daily to see if any suites with three or four spaces may open that the three other friends can move themselves into together. And I also post the info on CC in case anyone is still looking for rooms or looking to change. I know a lot of people put themselves in Paty to get a room and may be looking to switch to honors. Also to give info on male rooms available, as mike w is looking at female rooms.</p>
<p>Thank you for the best wishes, but we are fine where we are and not looking to change. Just trying to help others out.</p>
<p>Also, to respond to mike’s info about specific floors being honors, you jogged my memory about what I learned at Capstone when son and I visited the model room at Ridgecrest. We were told then, actually, that only some floors in a specific tower were honors. I had forgotten about that. I don’t know if that’s changed for this year, but it was supposedly that way last year. We were also told that Ridgecrest South was going to be all freshman next year, too. I believe current residents were going to be allowed to get their same room, though. </p>
<p>Of course, all this info could be wrong, since I was told this anecdotally by desk workers and students in the building, not official housing personnel.</p>
<p>since they have the restriction that you can’t move into honors later, i think it should be made crystal clear that RCSN is not all honors.</p>
<p>i would be pretty mad if i had put my DD in RCSN 4 or 5, thinking that it was honors, only to find out later that it was considered NOT honors, thus my DD being ineligible for an honors room next year.</p>
<p>I can defintely see housing having some non-honors students in honors housing if those non-honors students were in that tower last year. IMHO, the floors should still officially be honors so new students don’t lose out on honors housing for future years. If RSCN floors 4 and 5 are non-honors, housing should have informed the students choosing that before room selection or they should offer to move the students into honors housing or exempt them from the rule that would prohibit them from being in honors housing in future years.</p>
<p>montegut - i think you should not worry so much about the boy that wants your son’s (or his friend’s) space. i am assuming that you guys have already told them no deal. if they want to try to make something work out, then they need to find a way to make it work by finding 3 random guys that happen to be in a room together. or some such. having guy 3 come along and want to push out half of an existing pair is an unreasonable request for them to have made.</p>
<p>i don’t think you will find a room with three empty spaces. and if you did, then it probably wouldn’t last very long.</p>
<p>I check daily to see if any suites with three or four spaces may open that the three other friends can move themselves into together.</p>
<p>If you don’t mind doing this then fine. However, if those 3 really want to be together, they would find the time to look. It’s doubtful that a suite with 3 openings is going to open and even if it did, by the time you could contact them, at least one bed would be gone.</p>
<p>today - one room in ridgecrest w - in an RA room.</p>
<p>that is all.</p>
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<p>I’m surprised an RA room would be open. You’d think they would be held for RAs.</p>
<p>well it only shows 3 spots, so i am guessing the RA is not listed and the other girls are RA’s friends maybe.</p>
<p>Son is still not in Honors housing either. We have been slammed with AP’s, senior banquet, honors day, Baccalaureate and yesterday graduation…with family in town. Okay, now on to pushing for that Honors dorm spot. Hummmm, will not post what I really feel about having to do this the way we are having to (m2ck knows!!!), but I’m thinking and hoping it will all work out.</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>Have you heard back from Jami?</p>
<p>Bama hasn’t had this happen in recent years. There’s always been plenty of honors housing. </p>
<p>Next year they will probably do what other colleges do and that is to say that if you want honors housing, you need to deposit early. </p>
<p>In the meantime, keep checking. It seems like those who have been checking have gotten honors housing. </p>
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<p>As for the RA suite. I thought RAs have private suites.</p>
<p>As I recall last year students were still switching their living arrangements the entire summer So hang in there!</p>
<p>Some who were signed up for honors suites switched after deciding to pledge. Using the monies from the super suites & switching to a traditional double saved them alot of money. So eventually more rooms will open especially after students go to Bama Bound!</p>
<p>In the super-suite residence hall, RA’s have a room in a normal 4-person suite. When I applied to be an RA, we were informed that if we were assigned a super-suite residence hall, we would not be receiving our own room (I’m still on the waitlist for a position).</p>
<p>I wonder if that is only in certain halls. In Riverside, I’m pretty sure the RAs have private rooms. However, I do recall that the newer halls did not have single room suites (or had fewer).</p>
<p>today - a spot available in ridgecrest south north</p>
<p>Just so y’all, yes y’all, know…we got Honors housing last night - Riverside (boys)…whoop, whoop!!! There was a CC friend that actually called me and told me a spot was open…how about that!</p>
<p>Thanks again!!!</p>
<p>FYI-DS got an email that they are opening up the Highlands to new freshmen this fall. I did call and ask the housing office about meal plans for freshmen if they switch to Highlands since it has a full kitchen and was told that all freshmen must have a meal plan even if they move into Highlands.</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>True…but…if your child’s AP credits boost him/her to soph status in July (when scores post), then you can call Bama Dining in late July/early Aug and say that your child is a sophomore and he wants the Bronze plan. (Don’t go into detail with Bama Dining about AP credits…it’s none of their business HOW/WHY your child is sophomore. Just give CWID and say what plan he wants. All Bama Dining see is the status - which will be listed as sophomore.)</p>
<p>So, if our child is sophomore status after first semester, can they get on a lower meal plan for the spring semester? I’m assuming that payment is handled per semester, not per year, since you have to register for spring classes in the fall.</p>