luciddream22

I think the 3 bedroom apartments are actually harder to get than the 2 bedrooms. I got a 2 bedroom townhouse at Verano Place, which was my 3rd choice.

Just got my housing assignment! On the more expensive side, but oh well. Glad to have gotten it haha.

No, my future advisor actually is about to move to UC Irvine from UC Riverside so her current and incoming grad students all are being moved over haha. I will be in Psych with Cognitive Neuroscience concentration doing sleep research. I didn't get to visit though, since we went to the Riverside admitted student weekend. How did you feel the faculty/campus?

Same! I just want to know haha. Especially since there is a pretty big price difference between some of the options.

I am attending here as well! Is everyone else also waiting for their housing assignments?

Anyone having any luck with housing? The UCR housing and subleasing Facebook group seems to have a lot of people looking for roommates now but I'm not sure if I should wait or try to set something up now.

No problem! I'll also be looking for apartments/house as it gets closer, so it's good to be able to compare what we find!

I think they went up in price, so now they are not as cheap as they were paying when they started living there (600). Now it's about $750 per person. http://www.liveatdwell.com/riverside-apartments-for-rent/dwell-apartment-homes/ There are probably cheaper options.

Yeah, I heard a lot of negative stuff as well, so I wonder if people in California are spoiled with such nice places that this one in comparison seems bad haha. I've lived in Midwest and now in East coast, and although it's more of a "medium city" than the college towns I'm used to, it really exceeded my expectations. Maybe having such great weather in February, after barely getting out of the east coast during the blizzard helped that haha. The students I stayed with lived in a really nice, not too expensive apartment near campus, so that eased my mind a bit, especially since it's possible to get even cheaper housing if you live in a house with roommates, i heard. Where would you be moving there from?

So excited to be moving here in the fall for my PhD! I had heard all sorts of things before going to the recruitment weekend, and I was so glad I ended up really liking it! Also had an extra day to hang out with a friend in Fullerton and LA, so it was nice to see how close stuff was. Anyone else heading there this Fall?