The Warwick Accommodation Thread (+Guide in Post#1)

You can apply to at most one 30 week en suite (Jack Martin/Arthur Vick/Benefactors) and at most one 39 week en suite (Heronbank/Lakeside).

You have a better chance of getting in than if you didn't put them as 1 and 2. Read the guide in the first few posts of this thread if you haven't already done so. There's a part on allocation that you may find useful on how allocation works.

Well, the FAQ states that if I want en suite, I should put is as 1 or 2?

Yes - if you put them as #1 and #2 then you have a greater chance of getting in than if you put them as #2 and #3, as TheTallOne says. If you're choosing just one ensuite, then put it first.

1. Rootes
2. Tocil
3. Westwood
4. Heronbank
5. Whitefields

i haven't submitted my application yet.. but i was wandering.. is it likely that seeing as westwood is undersubscribed, they ignore my first 2 choices and put me there?

1. Rootes
2. Tocil
3. Westwood
4. Heronbank
5. Whitefields

i haven't submitted my application yet.. but i was wandering.. is it likely that seeing as westwood is undersubscribed, they ignore my first 2 choices and put me there?

Yeah. My choices were

1.Rootes
2.Benefactors
3.Westwood.

BAM, I was put straight into westwood.

I remember applying, and being on this thread a year ago and people said "If westwood is any of your choices you'll go in there" and I thought "naaaaah" and I was WRONG.



BUT! Westwood is being refurbished over this summer and they're putting in sexy double glazed windows so it might be less scummy than before!

Ah but the issue here is that you put Benefactors (of all places) as second (there are only 22 singles) so essentially you had Westwood as second choice. Putting a more stable buffer like Tocil can prevent this.

PAH, there's 900 places in Rootes. they had their chance. psh.


THEN AGAIN. Glad I wasn't in rootes, old rootes is awful, and new rootes is cloaked in diesel smog and dust and pneumatic drills in your earholes.

My first preference would be a 30 week ensuite, then a 39 week ensuite.

Is it possible for me to put my stuff in a storage facility, during Christmas holidays?

PAH, there's 900 places in Rootes. they had their chance. psh.

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showpost.php?p=18764302&postcount=1269

I'm such a ******* stalker

But in this case having Westwood second and Benefactors third means that 3rd and 4th choice are generally ruled out and they'd rather give you Westwood for 2 points, freeing up another Rootes place that could be given to someone who put it second choice (rather than someone who put it 3rd).

People with 30 week lets have the accommodation from arrivals weekend until 10am on the Saturday after the end of term. You have to remove all your stuff from your rooms and kitchens and you may only leave stuff in a lockable cupboard (about 1.3m x 0.75m x 0.65m), for which you will need a padlock. You then regain access to your room from 10am the Saturday before the start of term and the same happens over the spring break. Then a similar process will occur on the last week of the year in July. This means that you cannot return earlier than the set times given to you and if it snows (like it did this January) you may have trouble getting back in time for the start of term/you can only take a train with a smaller suitcase and you won't have everything (remember you need to take everything home/to uni each term).

From 'The Difference between 30, 37 and 39 weeks' in the guide at the start of this thread.

But if I were applying again this year I still would only make one en suite choice.

1) Jack Martin
2) Tocil
3) Rootes

Rather not have any of the others, so would putting one of the 39 week en suites as 4th essentially fill up a place? What would be a sensible 5th choice? Thanks.

1) Jack Martin
2) Tocil
3) Rootes

Rather not have any of the others, so would putting one of the 39 week en suites as 4th essentially fill up a place? What would be a sensible 5th choice? Thanks.