So…I just turned in my SIR after getting into UCSD (Revelle-Ecology major) off the freshmen waitlist. Little did I know a major housing conflict that would arise…
From what it says on the UCSD website, I don’t qualify for any form of Housing Guarantee since I received my Offer of Admission after May 1st, and the Housing Waitlist doesn’t open…until mid-July! So, that means that even if I go through with my offer to UCSD, I may not get housing? And I won’t know for months?!? I thought freshmen HAD to get on-campus housing!
Is this really how the system works for admitted freshmen off the waitlist? I just have to hope that by some miracle housing opens up on a sketchy waitlist? How does this affect the whole Orientation process and everything else regarding my move to UCSD if I don’t have housing?
And lastly, is it worth it to accept this uncertainty? What do I do about it? Contact officials maybe?..Or do I just wait…
UCSD had been my dream school for years and I was stoked to get in, but where would I go if I don’t get housing?
You can get on the waitlist for on campus housing, but I recommend also looking for places to live off campus. Freshmen do not have to live on campus. You would treat it like any other situation where you are moving and find your own place to live.
You can still go to your college’s orientation as normal.
If I were you, I would get on the waitlist but treat it as if I didn’t get on campus housing at all (which is what happened). It may sound scary, but people do actually move to new areas and find places to live on their own all the time. Welcome to the real world. If you don’t want to go to a school where you are not guaranteed on campus housing, then you should look at what your other options are for schools. But really, if you really want to go to UCSD, then you’ll figure out your own housing. If you don’t want to, then you probably don’t want it as much as you thought you did. Have you talked to your parents about what they think?