Question for you US folks

[kellifer]

So, what are my options i guess is the question? If someone were to be moved from college dorms to off campus housing by the college when there was a dorm shortage of some kind? We don't really have a dorm system here at all so I don't really know how it works.

This is for my abouttwoboys fic which is in danger of now being 7k of never being finished... :/ (The movie I'm writing is "Loser").

ETA: It's looking like perhaps a long-term hotel room is the go, thanks everyone!!

Comments

[snippy]

Some colleges, if they don't allow everybody to live off campus, rent apartments to use as overflow dorm space. Others just make a temporary exception to the rule, and let people find their own living arrangements, sometimes keeping one type of student (freshmen, usually, because upper classmen are assumed to be more mature and able to handle living without the college's supervision) in dorms, other times using a lottery system to determine who gets in the dorms.

[sinanju.livejournal.com]

My college had more students than dorm space. Freshmen were guaranteed a room. Everyone else either found off-campus housing on their own, or participated in the lottery. Numbers were assigned randomly within a class (seniors got the best numbers, then juniors, then sophomores). You got to choose your dorm room in numerical order. Finding a potential roommate with a better number than yours could be very important....

If you were male sophomore* you were almost guaranteed (assuming you got a room at all) to get a dorm room at "The Ranch"--two large dorm buildings several miles from the school which had been bought from the mental hospital next door (which was still operating). The school ran buses back and forth, but not very late. I spent my sophomore year living at the Ranch. (On the bright side, I had a room to myself.)

* Until my junior year, when on-campus housing was split more evenly and women could get exiled to the Ranch too.