{"id":3643,"date":"2012-03-02T14:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=3643"},"modified":"2016-07-11T15:35:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T19:35:20","slug":"rowell-my-love-ell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=3643","title":{"rendered":"Rowell, my love-ell &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Dear aska,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve applied to U of T, with Vic being my first choice. Assuming I&#8217;m accepted to Vic, how are residences assigned? I want to live in Rowell<br \/>\nJackman because I want to have a kitchen in my room, and I much favour suite style over traditional style. That being said, I know Rowell is a<br \/>\npopular spot for upper year students, and if it was up to pure chance, I&#8217;d probably end up at one of the Burwash halls.<\/p>\n<p>So my question to you is how am I assigned my residence? Is it a merit based application? Do I get a choice? Is it randomly assigned by lottery?<br \/>\nDo they try to accomodate everyone&#8217;s first choice?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks a lot, you&#8217;re a super helpful resource \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; suiteplease<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Hey Suiteee<\/p>\n<p>I just contacted my super secret informant at Vic and they said that the applicant will be given a choice after they are admitted. Apparently the option is given in a drop-down box in the residence application &#8230; so be aware of the drop-down.<\/p>\n<p>They also said that Rowell is a popular choice for upper-years just because of the suite style, but first years are still welcome to choose there to live.<\/p>\n<p>happy living,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear aska, I&#8217;ve applied to U of T, with Vic being my first choice. Assuming I&#8217;m accepted to Vic, how are residences assigned? I want to live in Rowell Jackman because I want to have a kitchen in my room, and I much favour suite style over traditional style. That being said, I know Rowell is a popular spot for upper year students, and if it was up to pure chance, I&#8217;d probably end up at one of the Burwash halls. So my question to you is how am I assigned my residence? Is it a merit based application? Do I get a choice? Is it randomly assigned by lottery? Do they try to accomodate everyone&#8217;s first choice? Thanks a lot, you&#8217;re a super helpful resource \ud83d\ude42 &#8212; suiteplease \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Hey Suiteee I just contacted my super secret informant at Vic and they said that the applicant will be given a choice after they are admitted. Apparently the option is given in a drop-down box in the residence application &#8230; so be aware of the drop-down. They also said that Rowell is a popular choice for upper-years just because of the suite style, but first years are still welcome to choose there to live. happy living, aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}