The residence community ranking form (where you paid your $500 deposit) is still available until June 1st, so the form will likely go online sometime after this date. I unfortunately don't have any specific dates for when it'll launch, but other staff members will be able to answer this once the forum is opened early June.

Hi!

So the way meal plans work is that the funds available for you to use are broken down into two categories: Meal Plan Dollars and Flex Dollars. Meal Plan Dollars can be used at on-campus eateries and Flex Dollars are used for everything else - vending machines, laundry machines, and off-campus locations. Since UW Place is a suite style residence, no plan is required. However, if you purchase a meal plan, you can use the Flex Dollars available to eat at the University Plaza, which is across the road from UW Place. There are many locations there that accept the UW WatCard as payment, like East Side Marios, Pita Pit, Williams, Curry in a Hurry, Farah Foods, and some others. There's also a Sobey's that accepts Flex Dollars if you take the bus there for groceries.

The difference between the Value Plus and Regular meal plans is only that Value Plus is meant for suite-style residences and the Regular meal plans for V1/REV.

I hope that helps!

I am unsure of whether or not you can buy a new meal plan in the middle of a term, all I know is that if you are in a traditional style residence you must buy a meal plan both terms, even if you feel like you don't need one for second term. If you do run out of money, you can always add flexible dollars to your account online using a credit card or a debit card, and you can also add money to your card at any food services location.

Once the term is over, your meal plan dollars and flexible dollars carry over. The only catch is that you will no longer have a meal plan discount the next year. So meal plan dollars will stay as meal plan dollars (and you won't have your discount) and flexible dollars will stay as flexible dollars for each term you're at Waterloo until you run out of money. I believe that they may refund you the money once you've graduated if you still have money left over.

The form that is available right now, the Residence Community Ranking Form and Deposit, is where you indicate whether or not you want to be part of a Living Learning Community. If you have filled out this form and selected to be involved in the LLC, you WILL be placed in that residence, regardless of what preferences you fill out on the next residence ranking form.

Also, in regards to roommates, the residence system will attempt to put you with your roommate in the order of your preferences. If you put UWP as your first choice with 2 roommates, it is unlikely you will be placed in V1 if UWP is full because the system will attempt to accommodate your roommate request.

However, the LLC will mean that even if you specify roommates you will not be placed with them, you will be placed in the Living Learning Community.

I remember that any money that is left over on your meal plan is transferred to a different "tranfer" meal plan account on your watcard. This was kinda inconvenient, because although I knew I had money on my Watcard, I couldn't use it to pay for textbooks, or anything from chemstores (they only accept cash, debit, credit or flex dollars).

The only option was to keep spending money on food. While handy sometimes, it was annoying also.

are the RAs cool with doing pot in the rooms?!

If I want to room with a stream 4 person but I'm in stream 8, is that possible?

Sorry for the double post, but I just wanted to let everyone know that the Housing forum is now open: https://forums.housing.uwaterloo.ca/

If you have any questions, we have lots of staff on the forum on hand to answer them! Start posting!

I don't think this is a valid reason, no. However, I do not work with St. Paul's, so I cannot answer this with accuracy.

It won't hurt to put it as your first choice. Remember that residence allocations are done by a lottery system, so you have an equal chance with everyone else of getting into MKV.

The lottery system will assign you a number, and if by the time it gets to your number your first choice is filled, it will try to place you in your second choice, and so on until it finds a placement for you.

Taking the above into consideration, it's difficult to say what your chances are. You could really be placed anywhere, so be prepared for that.