<p>I found out today that transfers into AU are guaranteed housing for 2 years!!! However, someone like my daughter, who has been a great student for 2 years and has shown committment to the school from day 1, and we have paid out for pocket for 2 years: we have our housing for her taken away in the unfair lottery!!!</p>
<p>No, transfer students are not guaranteed housing for two years. From the AU website:</p>
<p>“We guarantee housing to transfers who are admitted with 35 or less credits and who have submitted an enrollment deposit and housing application by July 1. Transfers students with more than 35 credits and those who also deposit after July 1 will be considered on a space available basis.”</p>
<p>cadmiumred, why is it that all your posts involve multiple exclamation points?</p>
<p>She’s desperate to make sure her d. (if she exists) can room with the rodents.</p>
<p>…You do realize that if your daughter, who has been there for 2 years and has presumably friends at AU/is familiar with the university, would be a lot less socially isolated getting an apartment off campus than a transfer student who knows no one and nothing about the university, right? Why shouldn’t transfers be allowed housing? How are they less deserving than your daughter just because they entered AU a bit later than usual? They earned their way in just as much as your daughter did.</p>
<p>Wrong! Her friends either transferred elsewhere or will be on study abroad next year!! And a student who has already put in 2 years and didn’t elect to spend 2 years somewhere else first, absolutely deserves priority housing! It does not make sense to kick current students off campus and someone from some other college for 2 years gets priority. Absolutely unfair and ridiculous, especially when the administration didn’t warn us about the housing shortage during the admissions events!</p>
<p>Oh and Momma J, we know 2 transfers personally who were guaranteed housing for their remaining years. I called housing to verify this and it’s true!!!</p>
<p>The chances of Housing and Dining giving away personal information about other students (i.e. their housing situation) is pretty slim. You’re accusing them of violating some pretty serious privacy laws, which I am sure they did not do.</p>
<p>New students (i.e.) transfers should absolutely get priority for housing. As for the shortage, there are fantastic new dorms planned. If you’d like to complain, please address your complaints to the NIMBY-obsessed neighbors that are trying to convince the DC zoning board that living within 100 yards of (relatively very well-behaved) college students will totally ruin their lives. Once the zoning board gives approval, construction can begin, and the shortage can be resolved.</p>
<p>I don’ believe 'Red knows ANYONE personally. And I certainly don’t believe her d., if she exists, has any friends.</p>
<p>(But both of them, if they both exist, knew from Day One that AU doesn’t guarantee housing for juniors, and does for new students.)</p>