<p>We sayed at Ramada inn for two nights, did not see any bed bugs. The room is Not spacious at all.</p>
<p>Do you have any idea when would they inform the returning students about the amount they are granted as financial aid this year?</p>
<p>Financial aid allotment should be way before the tuition bill is due.</p>
<p>What is College Honors Awards Reception like? Is it something say, like admitted student receiption, where many parents go along with their student and enjoy? Or usually parents don’t go?</p>
<p>My daughter will sublet an apartment in the area of Drexel and 54th this summer. Does anyone have an information about this area - concerns, thumbs up? Thanks.</p>
<p>It’s close. It’s fine. Nothing to worry about.</p>
<p>Maclean, one of the college dorms, is at Drexel and 54th (although it’s a little confusing, because there are two versions of 54th 1/2 block apart). Anyway, the point is that effectively that’s part of campus, just not technically. My son lived in a small building on Drexel near 54th for a year, and it was like a theme house. Every apartment had more than one person actively involved in University Theater.</p>
<p>Thanks for the input. 54th and Drexel look pretty good on Google maps, but I like to hear others’ impressions. My daughter will be doing research over the summer but, interestingly, is very involved in theatre. Must be something about that neighborhood!</p>
<p>I have read something regarding the parent orientation for incoming freshman this fall. </p>
<p>Does anyone know how long the parent orientation will last? Sunday and Monday (Sep 22&23, 2013) ?</p>
<p>Ours is graduating, so I am little bit fuzzy on the parents orientation, but if I remember correctly it is 2 days packed with activities. You should be able to get all the details on the web site when it is up.</p>
<p>My recollection is that the unloading of the cars and the drop off at the dorms happens on Sunday beginning in the morning. The parent orientation is on Monday and the programs run until late Monday afternoon.</p>
<p>Has anyone’s student had this problem before and how did he/she resolve it? D is a rising 2nd year and went thru room selection process in the spring. She and her roommate selected a room in their current house/dorm. She’s very entrenched in the culture there, hopes to be a Scav captain, etc. Well, she gets her room “assignment” on Friday (which should just be a confirmation of her selection) and finds she’s been moved out of the dorm and into grad housing. What’s up with that? D is starting to work to fix this, but I wondered if anyone had any specific suggestions, experience, names at Res Life? Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I don’t have any advice for you but I would suggest posting this in its own thread so that it will get more (deserved) attention. Good luck!</p>
<p>If she went through the room selection process, then she should be guaranteed that room. Sounds like a mistake. I would contact housing asap.</p>
<p>How disappointing for your daughter 
Yes, contact Housing asap.
I’m sure the closing of Pierce is negatively effecting the housing situation this year.</p>
<p>Yes, she did go through the spring room selection process (with her roommate) so this is a very strange situation. She has contacted Res Life but I was wondering if others had experienced this. I’ll try to initiate a thread on this…never done that before.</p>
<p>If you look at all the other housing threads that are popping up, you can see that they have a real problem there at the University of Chicago. They accepted a historically small number of students, and still got too many of them enrolling. They just took a 280-bed dorm out of service. For the past couple of years, they had already been sticking freshmen in places that were never intended to be undergraduate dorms, and losing Pierce didn’t make that any better. And it certainly looks like whatever summer melt they anticipated never happened. </p>
<p>As a result, it sure looks like there are more people to whom they promised dorm beds than they have dorm beds. One can wail and curse, but something’s got to give. It doesn’t surprise me that some second-year room groupings with first-year-appropriate space may be getting reassigned.</p>
<p>Understand that in recent memory – like, a few years ago – they had trouble keeping students on campus after their first years. One of the reasons Chicago was able to expand its normal class to 1,500 students without actually increasing the number of dorm rooms available by much was because upperclass students were generally happy to leave the dorms. Even if they had signed up to stay, lots would try to get out of their contracts. Now, all of a sudden, the fashion seems to have swung the other way somewhat, and they don’t have enough students who want to break their room contracts to accommodate the first-year overflow.</p>
<p>They will figure all this stuff out soon enough. But this is part of what happens when you go from a class of 1,000, living in mostly old dorms, with a 50% admission rate, to a class of 1,500+, living in mostly new dorms, with a 9% admission rate, in a little more than a decade. What is happening now is a brand new problem no one at Chicago had dealt with before.</p>
<p>In mid August we are taking the Mega Bus to Chicago. Can a Chicago veteran please suggest the best way to campus from Union Station? We arrive approx. 9am on a Tuesday. I prefer to walk farther and make fewer transfers.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>^ I think you can take the 192 bus. No transfers. Or you can take the 28, then 172 to campus.</p>
<p>Or go to the Randolph/Michigan Metra station (Millenium Station). One quick 15 minute ride and you are right on 57th Street. It’s a 15 minute walk from Union Station to Millenium Station and a 10 minute walk to campus on 57th.</p>