With the official signing
date
for
Sept.
1
leases
looming,
many
students
on campus are searching
for places to live. But the
housing hunt looks different
for transfer students at the
University of Michigan.
According to University
Housing,
97
percent
of
first-year
students
choose
to live on-campus for their
first
year.
But
transfer
students are not guaranteed
on-campus
housing
upon
admission to the University
due to the limited number
of rooms and space available
for students. Some living
communities — such as the
Transfer
Year
Experience
Theme
Community
at
Northwood III apartments —
are reserved exclusively for
transfer students.
In
an
email
to
The
Daily,
Amir
Baghdadchi,
senior
associate
director
of
University
Housing
Administration,
explained
what housing options are
available to transfer students.
“As soon as a transfer
student takes care of their
official
enrollment,
that
automatically
generates
an invitation to apply for
Housing,” Baghdachi wrote.
“Once you’ve filled that out
and are in the system, you can
check out the website over a
period to check out what we
have. Our inventory changes
over spring and summer, so
we typically invite transfer
students to continually check
from
mid-March
through
mid-August, to see what’s
new.”
When LSA senior Michael
Koch’s transfer application to
the University was accepted
in February 2017, he received
a link to an online web portal
to
apply
for
on-campus
housing.
Though
Koch
wanted to live on-campus, he
was unable to find space on
Central Campus and opted
to live in University Towers
instead.
“I checked (the website)
every day from February to
maybe June, and the only
housing was available on
North Campus,” Koch
said. “But I had friends
who went here and they
said, ‘Whatever you do,
do not live on North
Campus
if
you’re
in
LSA.’”
LSA
senior
Megan
Quayle
transferred
to
Michigan as a sophomore
and also wanted to live
in on-campus housing
on Central Campus. She
said after she searched
for a place to live, she
ultimately decided on an
off-campus
apartment
complex.
“In general, it just
felt like we got kind of
thrown
into
housing
because the University
doesn’t guarantee any
housing
for
transfer
students, so you kind of
need to figure out where
you can fit into housing
somewhere,
whether
that be on-campus if
there are openings or
off-campus and try to
navigate that,” Quayle
said.
In addition to the housing
opportunities
disparity,
Quayle said her orientation
experience differed greatly
from
regularly
admitted
students.
According
to
Quayle,
orientation
for
transfer
students
occurs
on a single day in July or
August,
partly
because
they
had
previously
attended an institution of
higher
education.
Their
orientation
focused
on
becoming accustomed to the
University and registering
for classes, but Quayle felt
that
some
assistance
or
information on determining
housing also would have
been useful before attending
orientation.
“It was kind of too late
in the game to talk about
housing, but I wish there had
been something else before
(orientation),” Quayle said.
LSA senior Skylar Carlson
transferred to the University
with her sister in the fall of
2018. She initially wanted
to find a place to live off-
campus, but because she was
accepted in the late spring
of 2018, she said she found it
difficult to find an available
space in her price range.
“It
was
kind
of
overwhelming and kind of
frustrating,”
Carlson
said.
“Everything in Ann Arbor
is just super expensive, and
it was my first time moving
out and living on my own,
so I guess it was hard to find
resources to actually find
somewhere to live.”
Since her sister was in the
College of Engineering, the
two ultimately decided to live
at Northwood III on North
Campus.
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