Supplemental Housing?

[Anonymous]

Don’t prisons get in trouble when they do this?

[Anonymous]

My kid's UC is all triples for freshman however the rooms were obviously built as doubles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have to think when this occurs there is a higher acceptance yield and housing desire than modeled. I recall Penn State doing this in a certain male dormitory in the 80s. The rooms were huge study lounges and maybe even two stories tall. Depending on the group of guys, it was a great place to hang out— as there were no shows or attrition at the end of the first semester, students were offered the opportunity to move somewhere on campus in a standard room. In my experience, those students who were admitted early in the cycle and paid housing deposits right away, were not in this predicament.

I think you a correct. From what I have been able to find, kids who accepted offers closer to the May 1st deadline were much more likely to be assigned to supplemental housing.

Unfortunately not true anymore. It changed two years ago to completely random order for housing assignments as long as you had your deposit/acceptance in by May 1st or 15th. They wanted to give everyone a chance at good housing - esp those waiting on financial aid. You no longer get a housing benefit for accepting early. People who accepted in December are in supplemental housing and others who accepted in late April/May are in renovated East. Totally computer generated when your name comes up for placement now. My DC accepted and paid in February- did get a double but in the old unrenovated/no AC dorms. 🤷‍♀️ Supplemental dorm students do get first dibs on rooms that come available in the Fall and most get that opportunity (although from what I’ve read a good majority elect to stay in supplemental b/c they end up liking it and what to stay with their new friends/roommates.). Obviously still not ideal for anyone or what you expect when you first head off to college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have to think when this occurs there is a higher acceptance yield and housing desire than modeled. I recall Penn State doing this in a certain male dormitory in the 80s. The rooms were huge study lounges and maybe even two stories tall. Depending on the group of guys, it was a great place to hang out— as there were no shows or attrition at the end of the first semester, students were offered the opportunity to move somewhere on campus in a standard room. In my experience, those students who were admitted early in the cycle and paid housing deposits right away, were not in this predicament.

I think you a correct. From what I have been able to find, kids who accepted offers closer to the May 1st deadline were much more likely to be assigned to supplemental housing.

Unfortunately not true anymore. It changed two years ago to completely random order for housing assignments as long as you had your deposit/acceptance in by May 1st or 15th. They wanted to give everyone a chance at good housing - esp those waiting on financial aid. You no longer get a housing benefit for accepting early. People who accepted in December are in supplemental housing and others who accepted in late April/May are in renovated East. Totally computer generated when your name comes up for placement now. My DC accepted and paid in February- did get a double but in the old unrenovated/no AC dorms. 🤷‍♀️ Supplemental dorm students do get first dibs on rooms that come available in the Fall and most get that opportunity (although from what I’ve read a good majority elect to stay in supplemental b/c they end up liking it and what to stay with their new friends/roommates.). Obviously still not ideal for anyone or what you expect when you first head off to college.

I sincerely thank you for your post. Very informative. I do know that the university claims that it is a "random" draw for freshman. However, anecdotal claims by other kids we met at NSO said they were late deciders on their acceptance offers and were put in supplemental housing. My kid will survive, but it just doesn't seem ideal. My son was assigned to South. Its a great location so it will be fine (fingers crossed)!

I have nieces that were put in triple rooms made for two (Texas and Georgia). Not great, but they survived!

[Anonymous]

This is terrible.

I was in a converted small lounge as a freshman. Four of us had Murphy beds that touched when they were down. So we had to crawl over each others beds to get to ours. There wasn’t a window.

It was also awful for our study habits. Seriously terrible. The girls were actually all quite nice, but it was a terrible way to begin college. One was a night owl and studied in her bed until the middle of the night sometimes It was impossible to study and I ended up only coming home to try sleep.

I would do whatever I could to get my child out of a situation like that. As in find another college. It’s not worth the lack of sleep and risking their grades.

[Anonymous]

I agree!

[Anonymous]

If the room for eight is a converted lounge or study space, I can't imagine that "dorm room" would even have a window. How depressing.

I feel bad for these kids!

[Anonymous]

I was at Penn State in the 90s and we almost always had at least one study lounge in our dorm that was being used this way. Usually at least half the kids were moved out within the first few weeks (people didn't show up, or ended up moving off campus/into fraternity housing et). The rest then had a huge room with just 2 or 3 people in it for the rest of the semester and then moved into regular rooms in Spring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was at Penn State in the 90s and we almost always had at least one study lounge in our dorm that was being used this way. Usually at least half the kids were moved out within the first few weeks (people didn't show up, or ended up moving off campus/into fraternity housing et). The rest then had a huge room with just 2 or 3 people in it for the rest of the semester and then moved into regular rooms in Spring.

[Anonymous]

I would never be okay with my child being in that type of housing.

Never.