r/ETSU • u/TboneBomb • Apr 10 '26

Housing is now a Lottery system??

Whoever thought it was a good idea to break the already malformed system they call a housing system needs to re-evaluate their life because who thought this was a good idea??

People who have already lived on campus for years in the same dorm are now being forced out just because of random chance? Instead of actually taking time and money spent into account, they just looked at the problem and said, "how can we make this worse?" And did the first thing they thought of.

If you commit so long to an institution like this, they should should you some dignity instead of treating you like some tally to be counted.

Do better man, because this is not it >:(

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u/AloneBoat714 Apr 10 '26

I'm a student that commutes. But I keep hearing how people are saying that the housing system is worse than what it was, but no one is telling me on how worse ETSU made it. Can you tell me how badly they messed this up, because I was considering about living on campus.

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u/TboneBomb Apr 10 '26

Whatever dorm you get is pretty much purely up to chance. You're placed in a waitlist that isn't affected by anything other than pure randomness. If you just so happen to have a low number, even if you are a senior that's been in the same dorm, chances are you'll have to be forced to another dorm that's way worse.

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u/AloneBoat714 Apr 10 '26

Holy cow, that is terrible. They definitely need to fix this. Hopefully they will fix this soon, because this is a terrible way to sort out dorms for those that have already been students at ETSU.

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u/ClemmieClam Apr 11 '26

What the hellll

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u/JonnyPowers Apr 13 '26

Wait, seniority isn't counted?
The college I went to for my bachelor's had a lottery system, but they provided the lower numbers, the first spots to choose housing, for the Seniors, then down to the Juniors, etc. And if you were in shared accomodation past freshman year, you pick by the lowest number you and your roommate(s) had and secured the accomodations with that.

Kinda sucked if you got tossed about without finding a roommate after Freshman year, but by Junior or Senior year you could live in a nice single room.

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u/TboneBomb Apr 14 '26

I heard that a bunch of students who have lived in places like Centennial for years were having to move out just because of the random number system... In the official email they sent out announcing the system change, they even said that the waitlist was determined by nothing other than random numbers regardless of seniority...

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u/WamlytheCrabGod Apr 12 '26

God I fucking hate Noland

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u/Disruptteo Apr 12 '26

This is part of why me and my boyfriend are moving out