<p>I was wondering if I could wait unitl April 1st to apply for private housing?
I am 99% sure that I am going to sign up for Dobie and I want to be sure that I get a room there. Yet, I do not want to waste $300. When should I sign up?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Are you sure you want to go with private housing???? If you are applying to U.T. honors program or FIGS, there are nice options available on-campus....</p>
<p>isnt it too late to apply for honors? i don't want to end up in jester or supplemental...
why are the honors dorms so great? i got accepted into BHP and Plan II, so I was thinking about applying to private dorms so that I don't limit myself to having only honors friends.</p>
<p>It's not to late to apply for housing, and I think they give priority to honors students for placement in the honors quad. On campus housing is good for finding your niche and finding a group of friends - lots of activities and close proximity to the honors lounge/center, etc. It's important to find a group of friends in a college as big as UT. I would save off-campus housing for after freshman year, when you have established a group of friends already. JMHO :)</p>
<p>My housing contract is set for honors, they called me the other day to notify me that I had a guaranteed room in honors housing. But I'm still waiting on my lease at the Dobie. I applied in November and am hoping for a private suite. Leases come out in the next couple of weeks - just to let you guys know.</p>
<p>I think they call you in late March time frame and ask if you want to be in honors regardless when you deposited your money for housing.</p>
<p>But only 500 people can live in the honors dorms. Not everyone in honors gets into the honors dorms. Everything depends on when you got your housing application in.</p>
<p>Really? Both my roommate and I are not in any honors program, and we both got housing in the quad.</p>
<p>in which dorm? Only three of the four dorms in the Quad are honors - Carothers, Blanton, and Andrews. I forget which other one is there, but it's not honors.</p>
<p>Blanton</p>
<p>But I think we are the only non 'honors' on our floor</p>
<p>Wait, so it's possible to get into an honors dorm without being in any of the honors programs (BHP, Dean's, etc.)?</p>
<p>I just got my housing contract and I'm so confused as to where I should apply to stay.</p>
<p>If you want to live in Honors then select it first. More than likely it won't go throught, but there is a very small chance, as with my roommate and me, that it will.</p>
<p>Maybe I should try then. Do you like honors housing? Would you say the dorms are very social or very sterile and quiet? Anything I should know? I'm considering putting Jester as my first choice. I don't know if this is a really bad idea or not.</p>
<p>Yeah I like it and plan to stay again next year. In terms of how social it is it totally depends on your floor. I apparently live on the 'party floor' of the quad so it can get quite loud into the late hours of the night. However, I have friends in other floors who claim that it is sterile and quiet. </p>
<p>I also would not advise living in Jester. I stayed there during summer orientation, and absolutely hated it. From the terrible smell, cramped out bathrooms, and difficult adjustment to the heating/cooling, I would go to any other dorm besides Jester.</p>
<p>Can you recommend me any other dorms to check out? I'm not really picky about where I live. My main priority is to not live in a quiet sterile nerdy dorm where nobody leaves their doors open and everybody studies all the time.</p>
<p>lol there will be both in every dorm regardless where you stay. I would suggest prather, roberts, more-hill, or san jac (its sterile but not really that studious).</p>
<p>You might consider the co-ops. They are within a couple of blocks of campus and provide the best of both worlds - living with 30-120 other students (they vary in size) but include meals. Some are apartment-style while others have shared rooms and privates. Some are quite nice while others are rather dumpy, so don't judge them all based on just 1 or 2. They're also cheaper than dorms but you have to share in the work like cleaning etc. a few hours each week. They have different personalities too - some are party houses while others are more studious.</p>
<p>There are 2 different companies, ICC and College Houses, each with their own houses:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.iccaustin.coop/index2.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.iccaustin.coop/index2.htm</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.collegehouses.org/newcoop.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.collegehouses.org/newcoop.html</a></p>
<p>Can someone answer the question of when to apply for private housing? I've read through all the information on this forum about private housing, and I think I'd like to stay at University Towers. If anyone's lived there, I'd really appreciate it if you could tell me more about it. Specifically, one thing I'm worried about is that partying will be too loud for me to sleep. I'm a light sleeper and I imagine this will be a problem anywhere I stay, but if there is constant partying during the school week (Mon-Thurs) I might choose otherwise. I'm also really academically oriented, so if Towers is full of a bunch of absolute douchebag dumbasses, I would probably choose Jester. My goal is a 4.0 and I plan to work very hard during the week and relax on the weekend. I'd prefer to live with people who care about academics also but also know how to have a good time. And does anyone think the extra price is worth it? I'm going to be taking out loans to support myself no matter where I stay, so I want to keep costs down. I think, though, that the potential benefits of private housing is well worth it.</p>
<p>Well, I've never lived in University Towers, but I had a close friend that did a few years ago and hated it. Partying is definitely a problem. Out of all the private housing (dorm-wise) at UT, University Towers is considered one of the wildest of them all. I'm waiting on a lease at the Dobie, which I would highly recommend. There are specific floors that you can choose depending on what type of environment you're looking for. Granted, it's a bit more expense than some of the other dorms, it seriously provides what a lot of people are looking for (me and quite a few others taht I know.)</p>
<p>I'm either going to live in the Dobie or I already have a contract for Honors housing, so it's all going to depend on which lease I want. I'm really hoping for a private room, and the Dobie is a great place for wanting individual rooms.</p>
<p>Just to let everyone know, if you've already applied for leases at the Dobie, contracts should finally be sent out in the next couple of weeks (I just talked to leasing about it).</p>
<p>My s and his roommate have already turned in their lease agreements to Towers. I was somewhat against him living there, preferring either San Jacinto or Duren, but his roommate really wanted Towers, so there we are. </p>
<p>I have spoken to a number of moms who have had kids there and what I heard was basically, if your kid is already studious, he will find time to study, if he isn't, living in Towers isn't going to help him. But, I am assuming it is pretty much that way anywhere you live. My older son lived in an honor's dorm at another college oos. He really didn't like it and spent most of his time at other friends' dorms. I think it had to do with his roommate NEVER leaving the room. He also described the people in the dorm as being the "dungeons and dragons" types that he couldn't relate to. </p>
<p>I know a kid who is a freshman at UT now who is living in the honors dorm, but isn't in honors. He likes it. He is kind of a quiet kid and perhaps the environment is better for him.</p>