BYU Student Housing

[BigFatMeanie]

I couldn't really find a thread that already fit this topic. This is a place to discuss on and off-campus housing at BYU.

[Clark Addison]

Stadium Terrace rules!

Yes, I was poor

[BigFatMeanie]

If you didn't already know, the housing policy for incoming freshman students changed at BYU for this 2022-2023 academic school year:

For their first two semesters as a BYU student, all single undergraduate students must live (1) in BYU On-Campus Housing, (2) in BYU Off-Campus Contracted Housing, or (3) with qualifying family members. This applies to all single BYU undergraduate students, including transfer students, who are matriculated, meaning they have been admitted to a degree-seeking program.

You can ask for an exception to this. My son, who is currently serving a mission, asked for an exception so he could room with some missionary buddies that have already done two semesters at BYU before their mission. Exception request denied. That left him with the 3 options above.

BYU has contracted with a few of the apartment complexes in town to provide housing specifically for incoming freshman who are age 19+ but those spots have been very hard to get. The list of apartment complexes where freshman 19+ can stay is here: https://och.byu.edu/all-facilities

We got him on a waiting list at The Riviera but when we called today, they said that it's doubtful he will get a spot. Most of the places on the BYU approved list are for women. King Henry had openings for men but they are the 6 dudes, 1 bathroom kind of apartments and King Henry is a little far off campus and he doesn't have a car. So, it looks like it's going to be on-campus housing for most freshman, including my son, whether they're RMs or not.

BYU has reserved specific buildings in Helaman and Heritage Halls for 19+ students, both male and female. I signed him up for Heritage Halls today and there were only 6 remaining slots for RMs (5 now that he signed up). Buildings 3, 4, and 8 in Heritage have at least one or more floors reserved for RMs and buildings 2 and 5 have at least one or more floors reserved for woman RMs. In Helaman Halls, half of building 9 is reserved for male RMs and there is another half of a build reserved for female RMs. I looked at the availability in Helaman halls and they already had 52 RMs signed up with openings for another 42. I never imagined that many RMs would want to sign up for Helaman Halls but they really don't have much choice.

[Jeff Lebowski]

If you didn't already know, the housing policy for incoming freshman students changed at BYU for this 2022-2023 academic school year:



You can ask for an exception to this. My son, who is currently serving a mission, asked for an exception so he could room with some missionary buddies that have already done two semesters at BYU before their mission. Exception request denied. That left him with the 3 options above.

BYU has contracted with a few of the apartment complexes in town to provide housing specifically for incoming freshman who are age 19+ but those spots have been very hard to get. The list of apartment complexes where freshman 19+ can stay is here: https://och.byu.edu/all-facilities

We got him on a waiting list at The Riviera but when we called today, they said that it's doubtful he will get a spot. Most of the places on the BYU approved list are for women. King Henry had openings for men but they are the 6 dudes, 1 bathroom kind of apartments and King Henry is a little far off campus and he doesn't have a car. So, it looks like it's going to be on-campus housing for most freshman, including my son, whether they're RMs or not.

BYU has reserved specific buildings in Helaman and Heritage Halls for 19+ students, both male and female. I signed him up for Heritage Halls today and there were only 6 remaining slots for RMs (5 now that he signed up). Buildings 3, 4, and 8 in Heritage have at least one or more floors reserved for RMs and buildings 2 and 5 have at least one or more floors reserved for woman RMs. In Helaman Halls, half of building 9 is reserved for male RMs and there is another half of a build reserved for female RMs. I looked at the availability in Helaman halls and they already had 52 RMs signed up with openings for another 42. I never imagined that many RMs would want to sign up for Helaman Halls but they really don't have much choice.

I am biased due to my YSA stint, but Heritage Halls can be a great experience for freshman year. RM or otherwise.

[BigFatMeanie]

Places I lived, in roughly chronological order and as best I can remember:

• Helaman Halls - Chipman. Summer and Fall before my mission.
• University Villa - it's now called "Liberty on Freedom" - about 800 north and Freedom (200 West). Lived here Winter Semester but I wasn't in school yet because I got home mid-semester.
• Devonshire - 700 North and University. I can't remember what it was called back then. Lived here spring/summer
• Brookview - 400 north, 400 east. This place was a total dump. Fall/Winter/Spring/Summer. I hated it here.
• Centennial - about 400 north and 900 east. Fall/Winter
• Park Plaza - 900 East, 900 North. I think they're tearing these down now. Lived here in Spring/Summer
• Basement apartment of some old lady up in the east foothills. Lived here until I got married. I had grown tired of living in apartments with lame roommates. I was glad to get out of the BYU apartment scene and just live in my own place.

[BigFatMeanie]

I am biased due to my YSA stint, but Heritage Halls can be a great experience for freshman year. RM or otherwise.

Yeah, I think it will be fine. The fact that there are so many more RMs in Heritage/Helaman, both men and women, than there would traditionally be made me feel a lot better about it when I signed him up and I think they'll have a great experience. Back in my day there were only a handful of RMs in the dorms - maybe 1 or 2 out of 200 in the building, and they were total goobers.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Yeah, I think it will be fine. The fact that there are so many more RMs in Heritage/Helaman, both men and women, than there would traditionally be made me feel a lot better about it when I signed him up and I think they'll have a great experience. Back in my day there were only a handful of RMs in the dorms - maybe 1 or 2 out of 200 in the building, and they were total goobers.

Oh yeah, they have a ton of RMs now.

[Clark Addison]

• Deseret Towers: W Hall 6th Floor!!!
• (Mission)
• Stadium Terrace: with mission buddy. After a year he moved into a house with his brothers
• King Henry: One semester, then three of us decided to move into a house one of the roommates owned
• House: With said roommate. Then he decided to get married after one semester
• MTC as an RA: This was a weird and glorious and awful experience as a 22 year old. An old roommate from Stadium Terrace was there and convinced me to do it for a semester
• Back to Stadium Terrace: MTC roommate and I got sick of the monastic lifestyle and moved back into the only apartment complex with multiple stalls in a large bathroom. Was there for a year maybe?
• (Married)
• Rented house on 2nd south right by the liquor store and that Ratty old hotel whose name I forget (Hotel Roberts?) - 1 year
• Rented apartment on 5th-ish North or so. I forget exactly where it was

I got a BA and MBA so there was a reason for the length of time.

[Clark Addison]

Yeah, I think it will be fine. The fact that there are so many more RMs in Heritage/Helaman, both men and women, than there would traditionally be made me feel a lot better about it when I signed him up and I think they'll have a great experience. Back in my day there were only a handful of RMs in the dorms - maybe 1 or 2 out of 200 in the building, and they were total goobers.

Truth

And to expand, total goobers who were looking for 18 year old brides.

[BigFatMeanie]

Stadium Terrace rules!

Yes, I was poor

I think this place is now called "Stadium 150" and half of it is being torn down, or is already torn down. Google Maps says the north part of the old Stadium Terrace complex is "permanently closed"

[Northwestcoug]

Yeah, I think it will be fine. The fact that there are so many more RMs in Heritage/Helaman, both men and women, than there would traditionally be made me feel a lot better about it when I signed him up and I think they'll have a great experience. Back in my day there were only a handful of RMs in the dorms - maybe 1 or 2 out of 200 in the building, and they were total goobers.

Truth

And to expand, total goobers who were looking for 18 year old brides.

I take offense at those remarks!

I was only a mild goober, and I was looking for a 19 year old bride.

I did one semester at DT as an RM. My dad had done everything for me to get in right after my mission, including applying for me, and he really wanted me to stay in the dorms to start. So I relented. Who knows, maybe he was also a goober. But I wasn't an oddity there. There were a few of us around.

[BigPiney]

I am biased due to my YSA stint, but Heritage Halls can be a great experience for freshman year. RM or otherwise.

Talk about hard to get into. Only reason my daughter got in there was because the team set a room aside for her.

My son tried there and it was all full by the time he could select housing.

[Pelado]

Deseret Towers: W Hall 6th Floor!!!

Deseret Towers - W Hall, 2nd floor (one semester pre-mission)

Back in my day there were only a handful of RMs in the dorms - maybe 1 or 2 out of 200 in the building, and they were total goobers.

MTC as an RA[/B]: This was a weird and glorious and awful experience as a 22 year old. An old roommate from Stadium Terrace was there and convinced me to do it for a semester

Helaman Halls - Merrill Hall, 1st floor (one semester plus conference season post-mission)

A friend had extolled the virtues of being an RA and so when I came back from my mission I lived at Heritage for the winter semester planning on being an RA in future years. It sucked, even though I'm definitely a goober. I didn't end up being an RA but did work as a conference assistant that summer, which wasn't terrible.

University Villa (two school years)

Got married - lived in older homes that had been divided into apartments, owned and operated by my employer.

Victory - basement apartment that has since been torn down, it was across from what is now the Provo Public Library (one school year)
Thompson - a block or so north of the prior place (one school year)

[Clark Addison]

I take offense at those remarks!

I was only a mild goober, and I was looking for a 19 year old bride.

I did one semester at DT as an RM. My dad had done everything for me to get in right after my mission, including applying for me, and he really wanted me to stay in the dorms to start. So I relented. Who knows, maybe he was also a goober. But I wasn't an oddity there. There were a few of us around.

Hey, as mentioned above I was an RA at the MTC so consider the source

At least I wasn't there to meet women, though (for the most part)

[Non Sequitur]

Yeah, I think it will be fine. The fact that there are so many more RMs in Heritage/Helaman, both men and women, than there would traditionally be made me feel a lot better about it when I signed him up and I think they'll have a great experience. Back in my day there were only a handful of RMs in the dorms - maybe 1 or 2 out of 200 in the building, and they were total goobers.

My freshman year I was in DT - U Hall 2nd Floor. Aside from the RA, there was only one RM on the floor. He's the one who used to buy us beer.