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    #212
    III
    Registered Users Posts: 77 ✭✭III


    fkt wrote: »
    I definetly won't receieve an offer until tomorrow(or is it Monday?) if at all, right?

    Whats your current waitlist number?


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    #213
    DreamByDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 169 ✭✭DreamByDay


    III wrote: »
    You should be lamenting... if your position in the waitlist is decreasing, that can only mean one thing; the people ahead of you were removed from the waitlist. I went from 801 to 523 currently, meaning roughly 300 people were offered a place on campus! bear in mind 1000 people who didn't accept UCD offers were removed last night, so every one of those 300 people accepted a UCD course, and therefore, accepted a campus spot! Sometimes you'll see the waitlist go up by 1 or 2, that means the person offered the spot rejected it or something along those lines, but as you can see, they are rare!

    I'm not sure I understand - you mean the waitlist position is going down by the number of people who accepted a place so while huge removals over the night mean people didn't accept / respond / pay so YAY, rapidly decreasing position = people removed because they accepted a room so SH********T ?


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    #214
    KTBFFH
    Registered Users Posts: 129 ✭✭KTBFFH


    Got my accommodation! :D delighted


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    #215
    III
    Registered Users Posts: 77 ✭✭III


    DreamByDay wrote: »
    I'm not sure I understand - you mean the waitlist position is going down by the number of people who accepted a place so while huge removals over the night mean people didn't accept / respond / pay so YAY, rapidly decreasing position = people removed because they accepted a room so SH********T ?

    exactly... I think when it goes up by 1 or 2 that means the person in question logged out of SIS and didn't book a room, but they still have 24 hours to book and so move back into the waitlist in front of you, hence the increase in your number... but 99% of the time it's going down, and there are only 777 rooms, so if you were near 1800-2200 when you first registered you're gonna need at least 200 or so rooms left over by 4 pm tomorrow, and were already at 480 left, with 47 minutes gone! Goddamn it I need to get a place...

    edit: In the time it took me to right that response 20 rooms were taken... f*ck this, too much stress


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    #216
    DreamByDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 169 ✭✭DreamByDay


    III wrote: »
    exactly... I think when it goes up by 1 or 2 that means the person in question logged out of SIS and didn't book a room, but they still have 24 hours to book and so move back into the waitlist in front of you, hence the increase in your number... but 99% of the time it's going down, and there are only 777 rooms, so if you were near 1800-2200 when you first registered you're gonna need at least 200 or so rooms left over by 4 pm tomorrow, and were already at 480 left, with 47 minutes gone! Goddamn it I need to get a place...

    edit: In the time it took me to right that response 20 rooms were taken... f*ck this, too much stress

    Uuuuggghhhhh
    I was 2317 when I first registered
    Now I'm 614
    And I don't even live in Ireland so I really really need a place :s
    GOD HAVE MERCY ON US !!


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    #217
    DreamByDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 169 ✭✭DreamByDay


    But wait how come UCD website says that people with ranks over 3000 usually get an offer if we (~2000) don't get one :'(


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    #218
    fkt
    Registered Users Posts: 411 ✭✭fkt


    III wrote: »
    Whats your current waitlist number?

    816


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    #219
    III
    Registered Users Posts: 77 ✭✭III


    DreamByDay wrote: »
    But wait how come UCD website says that people with ranks over 3000 usually get an offer if we (~2000) don't get one :'(

    That's just to make sure a lot of people register so they fill their residences... the heartless b*stards :(


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    #220
    SirDelboy18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,988 ✭✭✭SirDelboy18


    This is easily the ****t*st system going. Why couldn't they have just done it with 1st round offers like every other college?

    Now they have people on the fringes, completely unsure, and may have a lot of people frantically searching elsewhere with less that 2 weeks left and fewer and fewer options.


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    #221
    DreamByDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 169 ✭✭DreamByDay


    III wrote: »
    That's just to make sure a lot of people register so they fill their residences... the heartless b*stards :(

    heartless indeed :eek:
    f*ck this, everytime the number goes down I experience a mini-heart attack :'(


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    #222
    III
    Registered Users Posts: 77 ✭✭III


    It's all the more cruel because CAO made a balls of my change of mind and didn't inform UCD, so I kept getting an error when I tried to log in and couldn't join the waitlist until the next friday... I did nothing to deserve this


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    #223
    DreamByDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 169 ✭✭DreamByDay


    III wrote: »
    It's all the more cruel because CAO made a balls of my change of mind and didn't inform UCD, so I kept getting an error when I tried to log in and couldn't join the waitlist until the next friday... I did nothing to deserve this

    :eek:

    I feel you...i mistook UCD's dates for joining the waitlist with those of another university so it's y fault :p
    But if I don't get a room on campus...well I have no idea what I'm gonna do...
    THIS S*CKS !!!


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    #224
    DreamByDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 169 ✭✭DreamByDay


    The amount of rooms taken by the minute.......is TOO DAMN HIGH :(:'(


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    #225
    fkt
    Registered Users Posts: 411 ✭✭fkt


    My take on all this...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7bLO8D9sis


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    #226
    DreamByDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 169 ✭✭DreamByDay


    This music makes it even more stressful xD


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    #227
    Kristofferson
    Registered Users Posts: 32 ✭Kristofferson


    I dont understand. Just log into sisweb and go to complete booking and if it says "room book now" press it and if it doesnt, i presume you have to wait till 4pm tomorrow. I think that they do work at the weekend.


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    #228
    DreamByDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 169 ✭✭DreamByDay


    Kristofferson wrote: »
    I dont understand. Just log into sisweb and go to complete booking and if it says "room book now" press it and if it doesnt, i presume you have to wait till 4pm tomorrow. I think that they do work at the weekend.

    Well. If all the places are taken before 4pm tomorrow (=the number rapidly going down) this means we won't get an offer of accomodation. Which would s*ck :/


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    #229
    bbt159
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭bbt159


    acturage wrote: »
    Is there any students with a room for definited yet?

    I'm 301 on the waitlist place for Final Yr Ug and postgraduates.I'm guessing my chances are slim to none.

    im 299 on final year Ug waiting list. Just rang the accommodation office and they said there's absolutely no places left on campus :(


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    #230
    III
    Registered Users Posts: 77 ✭✭III


    Kristofferson wrote: »
    I dont understand. Just log into sisweb and go to complete booking and if it says "room book now" press it and if it doesnt, i presume you have to wait till 4pm tomorrow. I think that they do work at the weekend.

    Nah, says on the website that it's offered at 4 p.m every subsequent weekday so you have to wait til 4 p.m on Monday.

    Also, there is a possibility, slim, but a possibility nonetheless, that a decent amount of people are leaving the waitlist because they got somewhere else to live, or their parents won't pay or something. This is our only hope my fellow 2nd rounders


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    #231
    fkt
    Registered Users Posts: 411 ✭✭fkt


    DreamByDay wrote: »
    This music makes it even more stressful xD

    Detendez vous-meme, vous serez d'accord sans ou avec campus accomodation. La vie continuera :)


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    #232
    DreamByDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 169 ✭✭DreamByDay


    III wrote: »
    Nah, says on the website that it's offered at 4 p.m every subsequent weekday so you have to wait til 4 p.m on Monday.

    Also, there is a possibility, slim, but a possibility nonetheless, that a decent amount of people are leaving the waitlist because they got somewhere else to live, or their parents won't pay or something. This is our only hope my fellow 2nd rounders

    Hope ? What does that word mean :'(


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    #233
    DreamByDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 169 ✭✭DreamByDay


    fkt wrote: »
    Detendez vous-meme, vous serez d'accord sans ou avec campus accomodation. La vie continuera :)

    But I can't seem to find anything off-campus either... :/


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    #234
    DreamByDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 169 ✭✭DreamByDay


    bbt159 wrote: »
    im 299 on final year Ug waiting list. Just rang the accommodation office and they said there's absolutely no places left on campus :(

    'on campus' including first years or...?


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    #235
    III
    Registered Users Posts: 77 ✭✭III


    DreamByDay wrote: »
    Hope ? What does that word mean :'(

    Yeah, I know, clutching at straws...:o


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    #236
    fkt
    Registered Users Posts: 411 ✭✭fkt


    DreamByDay wrote: »
    But I can't seem to find anything off-campus either... :/

    Si vous etes un beau homosexuelle garcon, tu peux rester SUR moi!

    Sorry, but how's my Francais?


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    #237
    III
    Registered Users Posts: 77 ✭✭III


    DreamByDay wrote: »
    'on campus' including first years or...?

    That's for people already in UCD, they have 290 places all taken apparently, nothing to do with first years


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    #238
    DreamByDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 169 ✭✭DreamByDay


    fkt wrote: »
    Si vous etes un beau homosexuelle garcon, tu peux rester SUR moi!

    Sorry, but how's my Francais?

    Erm, sorry, I'm a girl x)
    Quite good I would say, though a little unusual to form your sentences that way :) But I'm not really suited to judge other's use of a foreign language seeing as I'm struggling to understand ucd's material in english hahah


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    #239
    III
    Registered Users Posts: 77 ✭✭III


    DreamByDay wrote: »
    Wow, with offers starting today that's...quick :eek:
    I'm sorry for you, did you have a plan B ? an off-campus room ?:(

    Their offers started in June I think... myself? No, I'm rightfully screwed seeing as I live halfway across the country and I doubt I could get a house this close to September... all I can do is cross my fingers and pray for the best! :rolleyes:


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    #240
    DreamByDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 169 ✭✭DreamByDay


    III wrote: »
    Their offers started in June I think... myself? No, I'm rightfully screwed seeing as I live halfway across the country and I doubt I could get a house this close to September... all I can do is cross my fingers and pray for the best! :rolleyes:

    Yes you haha, sorry was strangely formulated after talking about final year Ug accomodation ^^'
    Yeah to pray is all we have left :( I found some adverts for digs etc, but I really don't wanna leave my family for another, with other rules to obey etc...


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    #241
    III
    Registered Users Posts: 77 ✭✭III


    DreamByDay wrote: »
    Yes you haha, sorry was strangely formulated after talking about final year Ug accomodation ^^'
    Yeah to pray is all we have left :( I found some adverts for digs etc, but I really don't wanna leave my family for another, with other rules to obey etc...

    To be honest I'm pretty sure there will be a second round offer on Monday, thing is you have to book a room no sooner than 4:01 because there will be 700 odd people fighting over the precious few rooms left! You'll need to have the credit card ready and refresh like a maniac! Guess I'll go enjoy my hopefully stress free (haha) weekend until then, just sitting here watching the places go is doing my head in! Good luck to you and all involved! ;)


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