Thanks so much, The_Space_Cowboy! I have been looking at apartments in Mt. Pleasant. Do you have any suggestions on places I should look at or avoid? I will likely be living alone with my small dog (unless I can find a roommate who won't mind him), and my top choices so far are Canterbury East and Forum. I would love to live at Stonecrest, but it's too expensive.
I just emailed the director of a program to ask her for an update on my status and I was surprised to see an email from her so quickly after... turned out to be an auto-reply; I forgot they're on spring break this week! Guhhh...