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

This is really irritating me.

Forget "blockers" and forget tactical choosing of your accommodation.
Pick based on your preferences and out them in order of where you want to live,
The only correct "rule" is that having an en suite anywhere but first choice means you probably wont get it.

The allocations are done in this way: Your application goes to the warden of your first choice. They choose the people to live there. It is then sent to the place you chose second - if there are rooms available, people are chosen. If not, and when they are full, your application is sent to your third choice and so on.
Its very simple - not complicated in the way you make out. Have you ever worked there?

The reason people who put westwood anyway on the form usually end up there is not because they would "rather" give you it to free up places elsewhere, it's purely because 1. it will never be full when your application gets there (as less people choose it) and 2. people who choose westwood often choose an oversubscribed en suite and/or the oversubscribed cheap blocks like Rootes and Cryfield.

So I'm thinking about putting down Arthur Vick/Jack Martin, Rootes, and maybe Tocil/Cryfield. A 30 week let is quite important (apart from for Rootes I'm making an exception ), but would it be clever to put Benefactors or something in after AV/JM and Rootes to 'make sure' I get them? Or shall I forget trying to be clever...?

So I'm thinking about putting down Arthur Vick/Jack Martin, Rootes, and maybe Tocil/Cryfield. A 30 week let is quite important (apart from for Rootes I'm making an exception ), but would it be clever to put Benefactors or something in after AV/JM and Rootes to 'make sure' I get them? Or shall I forget trying to be clever...?

Post it here - I'll copy it into the thread and then link to it, if you make any changes, just edit the post and PM me to tell me that you have done so.

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.

This is really irritating me.

Forget "blockers" and forget tactical choosing of your accommodation.
Pick based on your preferences and out them in order of where you want to live,
The only correct "rule" is that having an en suite anywhere but first choice means you probably wont get it.

The allocations are done in this way: Your application goes to the warden of your first choice. They choose the people to live there. It is then sent to the place you chose second - if there are rooms available, people are chosen. If not, and when they are full, your application is sent to your third choice and so on.
Its very simple - not complicated in the way you make out. Have you ever worked there?

The reason people who put westwood anyway on the form usually end up there is not because they would "rather" give you it to free up places elsewhere, it's purely because 1. it will never be full when your application gets there (as less people choose it) and 2. people who choose westwood often choose an oversubscribed en suite and/or the oversubscribed cheap blocks like Rootes and Cryfield.

Absolute rubbish. From a primary source.

So I'm thinking about putting down Arthur Vick/Jack Martin, Rootes, and maybe Tocil/Cryfield. A 30 week let is quite important (apart from for Rootes I'm making an exception ), but would it be clever to put Benefactors or something in after AV/JM and Rootes to 'make sure' I get them? Or shall I forget trying to be clever...?

Oh I have one question - how would someone who comes here via insurance still get AV? I know someone who has done that. No medical conditions that I know of.

and you know people who firmed and didn't get AV that year?

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I've got that you applied AV then Claycroft (I literally went to page 60 something and looked for the first person to say they firmed AV), now I need evidence that you firmed Warwick.

How often are the bathrooms and kitchens cleaned in Rootes weekly?

I have no idea what you are on about lol.

I don't know, I didn't live in Rootes. I imagine that kitchens are cleaned every weekday, like the other halls (this is assuming nothing has changed since I was in halls a year ago), and no idea about bathrooms but probably similar.

JM kitchens are down to 3 times a week, I would assume that AV would also be 3 times a week as they are managed by the same branch of accommodation. Cryfield toilets are cleaned weekdays I believe, not sure about kitchens.

Oh I know someone who got into AV but ended up in Warwick with insurance, now someone asked if there were people who firmed Warwick and put AV as #1 and didn't get it. Looking back at past posts you put AV as #1 and got Claycroft, your second choice, I'm just wondering if you firmed Warwick or put it as your insurance.

You can't choose more than one 30 week en suite. Benefactors counts as an en suite.

OP your right i've read your two evidence's. surely then that means the system cannot be as simple as happy1 said. because it clearly says on the website the principles of allocation that will be used i.e medical over firmers over insurers.