My D registered yesterday also. It was fairly easy. She selected honors floor Stem tower, and there were plenty of rooms available. I think your S should have a couple of options ready and be flexible, but there will be rooms to choose from.
If he doesn’t get what he wants, I bet rooms will be come available close to the May 1st deadline as kids that were leaning towards Utah decide to go someplace else.
Thanks! Thankfully my son is very flexible so I am hoping he just gets a room.
Your welcome! Hope it went well. My daughter ended up getting a suitemate with the same first name!
That’s funny your daughter’s roommate has the same name! He just got a room! There were plenty left and he was able to get a cluster single.
Do Sage Point dorms have a kitchen area on each floor? I see them on the Kalhert and Chappel Glenn floor plans but not on Sage Point. Am I missing them?
My S has a dorm time for tomorrow mid-afternoon for Kalhart. Any guesses on whether any singles will be left? Will anything be left?
I don’t know but I’m pulling for him!
Thank you!
The description for Sage Point says “Kitchenettes on each floor (sink and microwaves)” Sage Point – Housing & Residential Education
As opposed to “Kitchenettes on each floor” for Kahlert and “Full kitchens on first floor of each building (microwave, oven, and stove top)” for Chapel Glen.
It seems that Chapel Glen has better facilities. Whether Sage Point is definitively worse than Kahlert (i.e. if Kahlert has an oven or stove top available) is unclear. Given the hike up the hill, if given a choice I would always take the lower campus (Kahlert) rooms over the upper campus ones.
But a much more important factor to consider is holiday stayover if you are looking for residency. Kahlert stays open during the Christmas vacation (although you have to pay a supplement, I think its about $40 for each extra night). Chapel Glen and Sage Point do not, so you would have to move rooms in order to stay on campus. See Break Housing – Housing & Residential Education
My son went today at 2:00 and got a single but I don’t think there were many singles left. There did seem to be doubles at 2:00. Good luck to your son.
Laest from our end, is that Utah has failed to acknowledge or respond to any of our emails to admissions@ or undergraduate@.
In early in January, when asking about merit, they replied and said merit would be announced in March. Following the recent period of merit awards, I had reached out a few times, to the different email addresses, to discuss merit, or at least receive confirmation that none would be offered, since we were trying to decide whether to spend a chunk of money on flying out and visiting (a requirement for us, as we wouldn’t choose a school blindly). As mentioned, Utah has ignored multiple emails.
A phone call is an option (although have always read phone calls are a bad idea, and that emails are superior method for merit discussion), but already have a bad taste in my mouth at this point from:
D2 is still enamored with the idea of going to Salt Lake City to study, and the program there, but we as parents are disappointed, to say the least.
There really is no excuse for them not responding to your emails. Maybe have your daughter reach out to admissions using her Utah email.
Sure, may work. At this point it may be getting to be too late anyway.
@HankCT - My son has 2 ignored emails from is AO and it took me two emails to two different addresses to get a response on the merit aid so I couldn’t agree more! My second email was a forward of my first (to a different email address) stating that I had not received any reply. My son has already accepted and I am trying to stay positive - but I have a very sour taste so far. FWIW, my son did not get merit with a 3.8UW, 4.5W, 33 ACT (he did get direct admission into the CS program - for whatever that is worth). This is the email address I used that was finally answered: financialaid@utah.edu . There is also a chat feature on the financial aid site where a pop-up-box comes on and you can reach out to whoever is online at the time: Financial Aid Counselor Appointments - Financial Aid and Scholarships - The University of Utah. I had luck with that also, but that is closer to a call where you won’t have a record of it. I’m very sorry - I 100% agree this is frustrating and sets a poor example for our kids. …and FINGERS CROSSED for your daughter & merit aid!
We’re looking at a few schools and Utah is by far the one that is struggling. I keep telling myself it’s COVID, but all of the other schools are doing so much better at communication.
We applied to 10 schools, and all 10 made offers and operated as if there were no issues. I’ve even gone back and forth a few times with a number of them, successfully. This includes Michigan State, Purdue, Virginia Tech and Miami of Ohio (in terms of public schools, the others are private engineering schools). Some need a few days to reply, but all of them have been good. None of them were “late” on their merit announcements. Point being, the issues with U of U are unique to U of U.
I do think there has been a bit of a struggle making decisions this year. One factor is probably that the university president resigned in January and AFAIK hasn’t yet been replaced (see University of Utah President Ruth Watkins moving on after 3 years - Deseret News ), so there’s no one at the top to make the key decisions about budgeting and plans for next year. Her decision to leave seems to have been a surprise to the university regents, but in some ways it looks a bit like she jumped before being pushed, due to the campus police force mess. Hopefully we’ll see a strong new leader announced soon.
Sorry I am late to this. My son is a current 1st year student in Kahlert Village. Great, modern building and very comfortable. One piece we went back and forth on was suite vs cluster. He choose a cluster and given the COVID year it was a very good choice. The cluster has some nice common space where the suite style doesn’t. The bathrooms are inside the room (behind doors) in the suites and outside the clusters. The arrangement has forced him out of his room and the group in the cluster has become his friend/social group as there isn’t much mixing and friend making given the online classes.
Honestly Utah had issues with communication last year and from reading this it is worse. My son was never officially given any notice he was accepted into the Honors College. When the deadline came and went I called the Honors College and had to leave messages that were not returned. It was not until I talked to a person in admissions (who I think was a student) who looked up my son and she told me “Oh yea he has been accepted into the Honors College.” The pieces don’t seem to work together. One thing I can share was that we got nowhere with email last year. The only way we got any info was via phone.
Completely agreed that communication has never been great and the different departments differ in competence and don’t work together very well (HRE generally seems to be a bit better than the others).
But I was mainly referring to the indecisiveness over merit awards (and dramatic changes at a very late stage) which might have been exacerbated by the leadership vacuum. I think that has just added to the stress in what is already a very difficult year