How will you spend your Thanksgiving break?
It looks like some students will miss 26th Street residence hall this fall.
According to Jennifer Brown, assistant vice president for housing and strategic planning, 6,871 students completed the housing application by the Feb. 24 housing lottery deadline — more than the approximately 6,150 beds in upperclassman halls.
"If room selection were held today, not all students would be able to select a room," Brown said.
NYU Housing policy states that every student with a guaranteed housing status will have housing.
Brown said Housing hopes some students will drop out before classes begin in the fall. Students that decide to go abroad, get hired as RAs or cancel for various other reasons create openings in housing.
"Depending on that level of attrition, it is still possible that not all students will be able to make a selection in April during the lottery," Brown said.
CAS junior Alyssa-Marie Rodriguez was concerned about her place.
"Being a junior means I get low priority when it comes to housing," Rodriguez said. "I'm definitely worried. The odds are against me. I just hope I'm one of the lucky juniors to get in."
However, the housing guarantee remains in tact, and any student who is not able to select a room during the lottery will be assigned one before fall classes begin, according to Brown.
When the NYU School of Medicine acquired University Court and 26th Street housing on Feb. 10, the Student Senators Council expressed concerns that there may be an "overflow [of] students and not enough beds," SSC President Whitney Petrie said.
"It seems to me like a mismatch in numbers," Petrie said. "[They] assured us if they have this problem, they will take care of it. Of course they know more about how to fill beds than I do, it just didn't seem to make sense to me."
The university also received 223 applications for the Senior House in 13th Street, and 72 for the Green House in Seventh Street. According to Anna Schmidt, assistant director for academic development, there will be enough applications to sustain both special housing programs.
Stern junior Evan Young was glad to see the option still offered.
"Housing allows you to interact with fellow students at NYU that live right next door," he said. "Dorming will never again be quite the way it was freshman year, where everyone on your floor left their door open and invited you in to meet new people, but living in an apartment, who knows what your neighbors will be like?"
