u/Good_Action1808

Anyone taking 311 at usc over the summer? Do y’al know when it will start or anything cause I don’t see anything at all

I will a third year senior next year and was assigned to cowlings in a 1B3P in usc housing. I was on the waitlist because all the spots filled up before my assigned date for housing and they were only able to offer me 1B3P at the moment. I currently live in century and was hoping I get century again firstly cause it’s cheaper and then it’s more isolated which I want as a senior. I’m not a fan of the 1B3P and I calculated the costs and was wondering is it better to move off campus? It’s still nearly 1500 per month at cowlings with 3 people in one room and I think I could perhaps get a single off campus at that cost?

So here are my options:

1. Accept this offer and sign the contract. If I do this then I can submit a reassignment request to seek a new location. But then again submitting a request is not a guarantee to be reassigned, as it is based on space availability.

 2) Decline the offer and seek housing in local private housing.

3. Decline the offer and ask usc housing to keep the application active. In this case, they will change the category of the application to be the "continuing  non-resident" category (meaning that I am considered to be an ongoing student, but not currently living in USC Housing)  This is the last category of applications that they look at when making assignments  (after renewing residents and new students )  They will get to these applications sometime in June or July. Often, they run out of spaces before they get to this category of application.  Because of this, it is unlikely that they will be able to offer you a space in housing for the 2026-2027 school year.

So yeah, I haven’t really looked off campus but I have friends living in Lorenzo, Icon, Hub and was considering looking at that. Cost is a major factor for me because I don’t want to pay nearly 1500 just for a room to be shared with 3 people when I can perhaps find better options. Another thing is that I don’t know any of my potential roommates and did random assignment so……

Any sort of suggestion will help. I am really confused on what to do. I applied to be an RA for the next year and I’m still on the alternate list for that too so I really hope that works out but I’m not expecting much.