Hiya Aska! Hope you’re well and survived your midterms.I’m currently a first year student at Innis college, and I commute (3 hours daily, pain in the arse). I’m planning on living on residence in my upper years, but I’ve heard that Innis is pretty exclusive when it comes to accepting res applications from upper years (unless you have “connections”/are a social butterfly), especially if I didn’t even live in res in first year. So, is it possible for me to apply for residence at a different college? I was thinking apartment-style at either Woodsworth or Vic. And not Chestnut, because I’m broke as heck.Thanks a million for your advice!
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oooooh heeeell, I hear yah brotha (on both the commuting and defastatingly poor front)
You are correct with your assumptions on Innis (well the limited space, I’m not sure about these sneaky “connections” you are referring to). Innis has even limited space available for their first-year students, but my magic 8 ball is coming up “outlook good” for you.
side bar ted:
there are 20 answers inside a magic 8 ball:
- ? It is certain
- ? It is decidedly so
- ? Without a doubt
- ? Yes ? definitely
- ? You may rely on it
- ? As I see it, yes
- ? Most likely
- ? Outlook good
- ? Signs point to yes
- ? Yes
- ? Reply hazy, try again
- ? Ask again later
- ? Better not tell you now
- ? Cannot predict now
- ? Concentrate and ask again
- ? Don’t count on it
- ? My reply is no
- ? My sources say no
- ? Outlook not so good
- ? Very doubtful
There is double the amount of positive answers to negative. So now you know who to ask if you’re going to pass a test and about that potentially unexpected pregnancy.
You can apply to other residences outside of your college. Here’s the downlown on your preferred choices:
Woodsworth:
Their statement on your situation?- “The Woodworth Residence houses upper year, Faculty of Arts and Science undergraduate students from any Uof T college”.
They don’t have the application set up for next year (because, let’s face it, even the school lives semester by semester) but you can check out the process and prepare yourself for the anticipation of months of checking back for application deadlines.
New College (word on the street is that they also?house upper-years from outside of their college):
Here’s their information.
Those two were the ones that specifically state they house kids outside of their college, but here is the list of ALL the residences. A 5 sec call to the ones that interest you the most will determine if your sort are welcome in their area.
The student housing website for U of T also shows a surplus of housing. Check it. And, yes, for some reason they think that a university student would like to buy a house. Odds are if we could afford to buy a house, we wouldn’t be on a “student housing” website. Come on U of T … lets think that one through a little more.
love with a mountain of icecream and a cherry on top,
aska