Chances of getting on campus accommodation?

What are the chances of getting on campus accommodation such as crown place and vine court?
I applied around 3 weeks ago, is this early enough to be confident of getting the ones I prefer?


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I think it must depend on the year, but I know people who applied in October . . . Also people on gap years already have accommodation offers and a lot of them seem to be in Crown Place/Vine Court. Did you put down another hall just in case? And what course are you doing? I'm going to Liverpool, too!

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nah I didn't, I was looking at Melville grove but ended just putting crown place twice, what did you choose? And I'm going to be studying business economics, wbu?

You applied to happy, social halls Edminzodo!

Thanks! Will I be all right if I don't party that much, though?

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What are the chances of getting on campus accommodation such as crown place and vine court?
I applied around 3 weeks ago, is this early enough to be confident of getting the ones I prefer?

Then there's a chance that you may get none of the ones you applied to . . . Hopefully you got in early enough, though. And I applied to the complete opposites - Greenbank, McNair and Salisbury! Nice subject, I'm doing Egyptology with Chinese. What A-Levels are you doing?

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I don't know if they have changed it but in previous years they didn't allocate rooms for people with conditional offers until all the results had come out and when you applied didn't make a difference. There are lots of rooms in those two so you do stand a good chance but you may well end up off campus in one you didn't list if you didn't put a third down.

Hi! I'm a first year in Melville. I applied in early February last year after having put Crown as first and Melville as second and third. The day they released room allocations was madness, i didn't find out till 5 because the site was so busy! I was worried though cause on the Facebook pages people who had already found out were complaining as they were getting completely different accommodation to which they applied for - luckily i was offered Melville first time around so i was happy. I don't think the time you apply really has that great an effect, i know people that applied after me and got their first choice. Honestly i wouldn't worry though, there are so many people i know that rang up and were able to be swapped to different accommodation - if you get given an offer that you aren't happy with there is bound to be someone that would love to have it! So if you really aren't happy with what you are given just ring up and i'm sure they'll be able to sort you out!

With the benefit of hindsight I'd look into private halls as the uni ones are pricey to say the least and they have hiked up the prices in the past year. (Done underhandedly I might add and under SU protest when they eventually managed to find out)

Quite a few pounds a week last year not sure what it is this year. Private halls are essentially the same experience and the one that JMU students seem happy enough with and for a better price.