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Originally Posted by Tsar
Did you wait too long to apply?
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I wanted to live in the dorms so I could continue to meet new people.
Rutgers policy on on-campus housing is lottery numbers. Apply for one, then apply for a dorm. Seniority is given. So it doesn't matter when you apply.
My lottery number for somehow in the 7000s. The cut off for double dorms (the lowest there is) was 5000.
That option, gone. Could have applied for hotel living, but I didn't. I decided to look for a house.
Next problem, after the lottery process, was tough to find friends who didn't have housing already.
Continue getting boned. Then, a friend offers to let me live in his apartment. We'd split a room.
I ask him about the lease info today, and he replies that him and the other roommate decided that they each wanted a single and that I would not be living with them.
Called a kid that I worked with tonight to discuss getting a apartment together, as we have done before. He informs me that if I had called a day eariler, we would have had a deal.
So now, being almost totally boned, I applied for hotel housing. I get an email saying that the hotels are filled up at the moment. If something changes, they'll let me know. (Along with the 1000 or so other kids on the list probably.)
That's the full story.