<p>This question may have been answered but i was wondering, if by submitting my deposit early like 4-4-07 early, would i be able to avoid a triple room or do i have the same chance as a person who hands the deposit on May 1. </p>
<p>Also, are the apartments around stony safe? worth the money and travel? after all you can have pets in some of them :)</p>
<p>I don't think we'll know what will happen with the triples until some time after May 1. There are a lot of issues at play when it comes to tripling.</p>
<p>Honestly, tripling's really not all that bad. I was surprised last year how many students actually opted to stay tripled, even after offering to detriple.</p>
<p>As far as local apartments go, it's touch and go. I'd say the vast majority of places are safe, as we're in a nice, suburban area, but it really depends on the place and what you're looking for. Work with our Off-Campus Housing office; they'll help you find an apartment that fits your needs.</p>
<p>-Chris</p>
<p>Chris, I am deciding between stony and another school to transfer to, but I will only be able to make a decision after I visit both universities somewhere toward the end of may--begining of june.</p>
<p>Can I pay the housing/orientation deposit sometime then?</p>
<p>what will the repercussions of this be?</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>nyccgrl: If you're thinking about living off campus, you probably want to find something ASAP, before the new grad students show up over the summer and flood the market.</p>
<p>The presence of the university inflates housing prices a bit, as happens in any college town; there are still some nice things available pretty close by, but the closer you are to SB the more you'll be paying for less. Commuting is also a very different experience, even if you're living really nearby--you still need to worry about parking in the morning, getting your car out of South P before the buses stop running (which is pretty late, but if you're like me you'll probably want to hang out later than that a few times a week), cooking for yourself, etc.. I definitely feel more a part of the campus community as a resident than I did as a commuter, and I was a commuter who was very active in student life and crashed with people on campus all the time.</p>
<p>I was never tripled, because I got housing off of the waiting list as a continuing student. Tripling is pretty sucktastic from what I've heard, but bearable... most of the freshies do seem to survive the experience and stick around afterwards. You'll live if you're tripled, and it might be a worthwhile price to pay for living on campus and the easier social situation that goes along with that.</p>
<p>sbuadmissions, can you please help me with my question? May first is coming up and i don't want jeopardize my acceptance.</p>
<p>frasi2 - Honestly? I don't know what's going to happen after May 1. Officially, we're not guaranteeing anything after May 1, but you just never know. We're likely to fill up, and there's likely going to be a wait list... then you might have to deal with the off-campus issues that Pseudonym addressed above.</p>
<p>What you might want to do is deposit now and reserve your spot. You might wind up losing your deposit if you change your mind, but it's going to be much easier than sitting on a waitlist in June, hoping for a spot that probably won't open up. (And coming off a waitlist, you're probably a lot more likely to be in some sort of temporary housing situation anyway.)</p>
<p>Tripling ultimately depends on who you wind up with. Usually, one of three things happens:
* The three of you get along really well and decide to stay tripled, because you can't decide who should leave.
* Two of you get along really well, and the third is somewhat of an outsider; hopefully you get detripled quickly, and it's easy for that one person to move.
* The three of you hate each other, and it makes your life miserable for a few weeks until you get detripled.</p>
<p>Interesting that Pseudo got housing off the waitlist as a continuing student; that's been really tight this year. I had two freshmen in my seminar this fall who were commuters and wanted housing, and were told they had to wait until this coming fall at the earliest. I guess it depends on the year.</p>
<p>Good luck in your decision, and if you have any other questions, please feel free to ask.</p>
<p>-Chris</p>
<p>Yes, I paid the acceptance fee to reserve my spot. But I don't want to put down an additional 180 + 200 for orientation and housing fees without knowing for sure if I will indeed go to SB. I think it is possible could pay those fees by may 1st and then request a refund later if I decide not to attend, but my parents probably aren't financially able to provide $380 in such as short notice at this time. I am a freshman at a school in PA, so I didn't have time to visit stony brook nor the other school i am considering yet. </p>
<p>Do you think I can still get campus housing by paying the deposit towards the end of may?</p>
<p>Understood. Hopefully, housing will still be available, but I honestly don't know; and like I said, we won't know until some time next month. All I can say is that we expect to fill up. We do reserve space for transfers, so it's possible, but I can't definitely tell you one way or the other now.</p>
<p>-Chris</p>
<p>i heard that this yr SB accepted 108% so dorms are going to filled up w/ 3 ppl??? is it true?</p>
<p>I have no idea what that "108%" is supposed to mean. Yes, we will likely triple some students this year, but it would be impossible to triple all freshmen. And as I've said a few times, we don't know anything until we finish collecting all of the housing deposits, some time in May.</p>
<p>-Chris</p>
<p>Chris, I'm sure it's much harder to get housing off the waitlist now than it was when I did. I put myself on the waiting list the first day it went online in spring '06, and I eventually got housing a couple of days before Thanksgiving that fall. Some people were still tripled at that point, but I got the space because they weren't tripling in Tabler (the quad office told me it was because they still had the old, un-bunkable beds) back then, and they didn't like moving tripled freshmen to a different quad. Lucky me :)</p>
<p>Now a lot of Tabler has the new beds and all the buildings in Tabler triple, so there's virtually no way someone would get housing off the waiting list until spring.</p>