2018-19 4th Year Housing

My daughter will be affected by this decision and it is not timely to figure something else out

This process doesn't appear to take into account the needs of all students. If there isn't room for more students then they should be wait lisited.

This type of treatment of 4th year students will make it difficult for our family to recommend Mercer to friends and family.

It seems unfair to boot out students who have paid for 3 years of instruction and force them to find alternative housing at the last minute. I'm sure the school is fully aware of how unsafe the area can be. Why allow your school to grow beyond capacity without considering the safety of your loyal students?

Mercer just tries to gouge money from everyone in any way possible... They should just open housing to be more free! Let students who aren’t 1st years live on or off campus as they choose! That will open up lots of on-campus housing for people who don’t have a choice or just prefer it.

Lofts do not count as on campus housing and are not the solution to this problem. Lofts are expensive and not every student/students parents can afford them. Some students have to use loans to pay for housing and the lofts don't accept loans so either build more housing that financial aid can pay for or make financial aid be able to be used for lofts.

We should also have more affordable options than just the lofts.

When we toured Mercer 4 years ago we were told there would be housing available for our sons for all 4 years they would be at Mercer. Quite frankly this was one of the things that sold us on the school. I am disgusted to find that this is not the case and that students have only just been told! My sons should be concentrating on their studies not trying to find safe, affordable housing and worrying where they’ll be living next year! Shame on Mercer!!

I want to live on campus

I want to live on campus with my friends

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I sent an email to Residence Life today and received a call back from Sandy Morgan. It was very clear that they are listening to the students and are doing what they can in light of current enrollment projections. She went point-by-point to address each of my concerns. She was quick to clear up some misinformation that we were given over the phone and offer the best and worst case-scenarios that they currently have. Because of the record growth the university is experiencing, they can’t possibly accommodate us in all the ways we’d like, but she offered a couple of possible solutions that are reasonable. She was absolutely lovely — a consummate professional — and I so appreciate the follow-up.

This is absolutely the worst the University could have handled this. Rising 4th year students have taken the brunt of the housing crunch at Mercer, and have been denied time and time again the simple requests we have made to improve our housing situation. We were locked in place for 3 years, denied access to Lofts and provided limited alternatives for our first 2 years, and have now been ostracized or forced into paying criminally astronomical rent. This situation doesn't affect me, as my housing is otherwise secured, but I am outraged for my friends and peers as they wrestle with this time-sensitive problem, which Mercer has single-handedly created, yet has offered no solution for.

Considering the exorbitant cost of tuition this is a no-brainer.

As a parent with two daughters at Mercer , who have been there since they were freshman, and will be third and forth years in Fall 2018, this is extremely upsetting. The university has grown quickly and that can be a good thing, however I feel as if the upperclassmen now do not matter . The university is so focused on bringing in new lower classman that students who have already been there do not seem to be important.

Lift the housing requirement off of 3rd year students. On campus housing is expensive, and if 4th year students are not able to live on campus it would create a more ideal living situation. Not many places allow you to get into a lease less than 12 months, and if you do, you have to pay an arm and a leg. All of these expensive inconveniences fall back on the Mercer housing requirement, which has proven itself ineffective and unnecessary.

As a parent who pays a hefty price tag for Loft Living at Mercer, I am extremely displeased about the late notification of the change in rules for housing assignments. I find it unacceptable and unconscionable for Residence Life to change the rules for signup after room assignment has begun. The class of 2019 was locked out of Phases 1 and 2 when they were rising sophomores in order to hold lofts for rising seniors. So we moved into Phase 5, paid a higher price tag, and waited our turn. As I understand it, as rising seniors, the script has been flipped on the students and they can’t assign other rising seniors to the lofts in order for the school to save lofts for underclassmen. And they were only notified after they already retained their spaces. So, after they’ve had their “one move,” they are told that they can’t switch to fill in empty rooms with their friends, but instead are just stuck with open rooms. So her senior year, my daughter will be forced to live with random students who self-assign. It’s not the policy — I respect and understand the school’s need to make changes — it’s the notification of the change in interrelated policies once you already have us in handcuffs. If we had received proper & timely notification, we would have made a completely different plan. I read the initial notification and it seemed intentionally vague. I know a number of students reached out for clarification and were told that the policy had changed, but unfortunately since they had already selected different rooms, that was considered their “one move,” so they couldn’t make another change to fill in open rooms with their friends who also had been left with open rooms — despite the rules being changed after initial signup had begun. This feels like an example of massively poor planning — for what I pay, it feels like extortion. Or perhaps it’s simply a way to force seniors who would like to live on-campus off, because the school either can’t keep up with the

As a Mercer parent, I believe it is imparative for Mercer University to address the needs of ALL students. Kicking seniors off campus creates undue hardships and unnecessary stress on senior students.

Issues like this make me so thankful that I transferred from Mercer. Not only am I at a school that is much better for science majors, but I don’t have to deal with the ridiculous things the school decides without thinking of the students.

First of all I hardly considered the lofts as an “on campus” option because of how insanely expensive it is, but now that it’s not even an option for seniors who didn’t already live there, that’s insane. Seniors should get priority over sophomores because sophomores can actually live on campus. This doesn’t apply to me because I already live in the lofts, so I get to keep my place for next year but Mercer should have on campus housing as an option for all students... mainly because many don’t have cars, not to mention how crazy dangerous it is just off campus, where the majority of students will move to. So angry how Mercer has handled housing. Don’t force us to live on campus for 3 years then kick us off on our fourth year.