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1st year accommodation question

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  • 17-08-2008 11:49pm
    #1
    33% God
    Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭


    I'd be really really grateful if I could get an answer to this question :)
    Assuming that all goes well tomorrow morning I should be heading to UCD to be with all you wonderful people.
    I was wondering which place I should apply for for accommodation, Merville, Belgrove or Roebuck.
    I've heard conflicting stories about them so far. The internet (oxygen.ie) has told me that Roebuck is great, Merville is ok and Belgrove is a kip and if you live there "you must have been a terrible person in a past life".
    A friend has told me that Merville is a dump and that Belgrove is the place to be. I'm not sure about Roebuck, my funds are thin as it is :(.

    So what would ye recommend, Merville, Belgrove or Roebuck?

    Also, I'm from Tipperary (North), would any of you know what my chances are of getting a place on campus?


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    #2
    Raemie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 136 ✭✭Raemie


    Im in the same situation (but from limerick). Roebuck sounds nice but its a whole grand more... THere'll be so many first years too i dont know what my chances will be like. Hopefully most people will be from dublin so we'll get preference :)


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    princess-sprkle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 625 ✭✭✭princess-sprkle


    33% God wrote: »
    I'd be really really grateful if I could get an answer to this question :)
    Assuming that all goes well tomorrow morning I should be heading to UCD to be with all you wonderful people.
    I was wondering which place I should apply for for accommodation, Merville, Belgrove or Roebuck.
    I've heard conflicting stories about them so far. The internet (oxygen.ie) has told me that Roebuck is great, Merville is ok and Belgrove is a kip and if you live there "you must have been a terrible person in a past life".
    A friend has told me that Merville is a dump and that Belgrove is the place to be. I'm not sure about Roebuck, my funds are thin as it is :(.

    So what would ye recommend, Merville, Belgrove or Roebuck?

    Also, I'm from Tipperary (North), would any of you know what my chances are of getting a place on campus?

    your chances are pretty good, they usually allocate by distance.
    I'd say go for Merville,its nice. or Roebuck is meant to be really nice but expensive. not belgrove though!


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    IrishKnight
    Registered Users Posts: 922 ✭✭✭IrishKnight


    In Merville, if I remember rightly, you need to buy electricity cards so that you'll have power. While in Belgrove you just pay a spilt bill every two months.


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    neilk32
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    I love you :)


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    33% God
    Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭33% God


    neilk32 wrote: »
    I love you :)
    :eek:
    Flattery will get you everywhere.
    Check your PMs


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    Stabshauptmann
    Registered Users Posts: 4,885 ✭✭✭Stabshauptmann


    The quality of the appartments in belgrove and merville is the same. Not great, you wouldnt want to live there later in life but fine for students.

    Belgrove had a better party atmosphere every year I was in college.

    There are two roebucks.

    Roebuck Castle is a kip, the only place on campus I wouldnt like to be. The new one, Roebuck Hall is as good as glenomena (where the final years and post grads live).


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    Stabshauptmann
    Registered Users Posts: 4,885 ✭✭✭Stabshauptmann


    33% God wrote: »
    :eek:
    Flattery will get you everywhere.
    Check your PMs
    I agree, keep your pms in check woman


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    Stepherunie
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    Kaptain Redeye wrote: »
    Roebuck Castle is a kip, the only place on campus I wouldnt like to be. The new one, Roebuck Hall is as good as glenomena (where the final years and post grads live).

    Roebuck castle is no longer accommodation.

    It's being turned into offices.


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    #10
    Stabshauptmann
    Registered Users Posts: 4,885 ✭✭✭Stabshauptmann


    Crap and all as I thought it was, I think that was a bad move.


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    #11
    eoin2nc
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    how far away from dublin to you have to live to get on-campus accommodation?


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    Raphael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    eoin2nc wrote: »
    how far away from dublin to you have to live to get on-campus accommodation?
    This is pretty rough, but it;s late

    HungryGiant.gif

    If your home is still on this map, your good. If it's not, you're not.

    (I made this map by cutting a chunk out centred on Dublin, and with the edge going through New Ross, where I live, applied from, and didn't get it, but some other people did.)


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    Raemie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 136 ✭✭Raemie


    Great map! I'm slightly less worried now :)


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    neilk32
    Registered Users Posts: 578 ✭✭✭neilk32


    i think it usually goes by county not by where exactly you live, i know a good few people from offaly that got it last year.


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    33% God
    Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭33% God


    neilk32 wrote: »
    i think it usually goes by county not by where exactly you live, i know a good few people from offaly that got it last year.
    I just registered for Merville and they said they think I have got a place so you should be grand.
    In know an guy from out the road who got a place last year.


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    muffinman
    Registered Users Posts: 494 ✭✭muffinman


    33% God wrote: »
    I just registered for Merville and they said they think I have got a place so you should be grand.
    In know an guy from out the road who got a place last year.

    I think that's just the automatic response tbh.. But I dunno..


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    33% God
    Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭33% God


    muffinman wrote: »
    I think that's just the automatic response tbh.. But I dunno..
    :D that's what I was thinking too.
    Surely it changes from year to year. If there are a heap of applicants from Mayo one year then you're going to have to live further away to get a place but if there are more from Kildare then people whom live closer will get it.


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    Mushy
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    33% God wrote: »
    :D that's what I was thinking too.
    Surely it changes from year to year. If there are a heap of applicants from Mayo one year then you're going to have to live further away to get a place but if there are more from Kildare then people whom live closer will get it.

    Based on last year, ya should get it. I know people from Kilkenny who didnt get it, it was mainly people in Leinster who didnt get it, and outside that were generally ok from what i've been told. Being from North Tipp(good man:D), ya should be ok.


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    Raphael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    No, according to their site, and my reports form people working there while I was in first year, it goes by distance.

    Also, 33% God is right, if a million people from mayo want to go to UCD one year (Are there a million people in Mayo?) Then no one else in the country gets accomodation.


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    alan4cult
    Registered Users Posts: 1,583 ✭✭✭alan4cult


    Raphael wrote: »
    No, according to their site, and my reports form people working there while I was in first year, it goes by distance.

    Also, 33% God is right, if a million people from mayo want to go to UCD one year (Are there a million people in Mayo?) Then no one else in the country gets accomodation.
    Not yet but it can be arranged.


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    #21
    fillefatale
    Registered Users Posts: 2,225 ✭✭✭fillefatale


    Belgrove, closest to the main hub of the campus. And you won't set your aims high when you're looking for somewhere to live next year.


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    bebeebutterfly
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    So when will we know?
    I live in Kilkenny so I'm doubtful that I'll get it!


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    #23
    muffinman
    Registered Users Posts: 494 ✭✭muffinman


    bebeebutterfly wrote: »
    So when will we know?
    I live in Kilkenny so I'm doubtful that I'll get it!

    Letters seem to have arrived yesterday and Monday.. Could be more today


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    #24
    bebeebutterfly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 93 ✭✭bebeebutterfly


    muffinman wrote: »
    Letters seem to have arrived yesterday and Monday.. Could be more today

    ....rejection letters?


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    #25
    muffinman
    Registered Users Posts: 494 ✭✭muffinman


    bebeebutterfly wrote: »
    ....rejection letters?

    No.. acceptance


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    #26
    Raemie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 136 ✭✭Raemie


    I got mine yesterday, I'm in roebuck. Should i look out for anyone...? :)


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    #27
    muffinman
    Registered Users Posts: 494 ✭✭muffinman


    Raemie wrote: »
    I got mine yesterday, I'm in roebuck. Should i look out for anyone...? :)

    Me :P What house?


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    #28
    Raemie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 136 ✭✭Raemie


    Im in house 3 (i think :p), where will you be?


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    #29
    muffinman
    Registered Users Posts: 494 ✭✭muffinman


    Raemie wrote: »
    Im in house 3 (i think :p), where will you be?

    Same lol.. We may be roommates :P Though there are probably lots of rooms in each house..


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    #30
    Raemie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 136 ✭✭Raemie


    *gasp* roomies!!!

    How will i look out for you, any identifying features? :D


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    #31
    Konata
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    I'm also heading to Roebuck =) House 2 though.


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