MBAcm2013 wrote:
ctgmat123 wrote:
MBAcm2013 wrote:
I'm interested in a 2 bedroom at Station 9 to share with a fellow Fuquan. Just out of curiosity - how quickly do these rooms go at S9? I probably won't have the roommate situation figured out until after BDW (April 19) but am wondering if I should start communicating with the S9 management prior to then? I don't want to get closed out of the complex. Thanks!
WaitlistYou should contact them to get your name on the waitlist. It's $75, but after I got in R1 the current students I spoke with, including a good friend who lives there now, told me to get on the waitlist sooner rather than later if I was serious about Fuqua / living at S9. You can put your name on the WL for a 2BR and figure out who you'll live with later.
Thanks for the info - one further question: what is the typical leasing period for Fuquans? Is a 10 month lease (due to internship over the summer) or a 2 yr lease the norm?
The waitlist for Station 9 gets crazier and crazier every year. It used to be such that you could get on the waitlist during Blue Devil Weekend in April and still get an apartment. That is no longer the case. It fills up extremely quickly.
Station 9 is awesome -- don't miss out!While it sometimes has the rep of a "frat house", it's actually a really great place to live--namely because 40% of Fuquans live there. The weather in Durham is nice basically all year except Dec-Jan, so you can socialize at the pool with fellow Fuquans just by stepping outside.
I'm currently a second-year, and I can tell you that a huge percentage of my classmates moved from elsewhere first-year to Station 9 their second-year because they felt that they were "missing out".
If you're not on the Waitlist for S9If you're not currently on the waitlist for Station 9, your best bet is to find someone who already is on the waitlist for a 2-bedroom but hasn't found a roommate yet. Or to find a second-year whose lease you could take over. (Post in the facebook group or see the Lease Takeover tab in the Google Doc in the facebook group).
Lease lengthMost Fuquans who stay in the same apartment complex for both years get a 12-month lease and a 9-to-10-month lease, or a 22-month lease.
Most people don't want to deal with the bother of packing everything up at the end of first year, moving for summer internship, and then moving back in the fall.
Instead they just leave their apartment vacant over the summer or sublease it out. (Then they find furnished apartments for their summer sublet.)