Housing Pricing-

Welcome to High Point University where each student receives an extraordinary education, in a fun environment, with caring people. The living conditions are exceptional and are numerous in options, however make sure you are prepared to shell out a pretty penny, especially if you are an upperclassman.

There are a few pluses. First there are several housing options open to upperclassmen. They include all three 6th Street Apartment Buildings, Millis, Wilson, University Village, York, Finch, Yadkin, both Village’s at High Point University, and York.

The negative is that for some of these options there are certain stipulations that a student needs to fit.

For example, Millis is only open to upper class females involved in Greek life. Two of the three apartment buildings are reserved for upper class men who are Greek affiliated, leaving only one apartment building up for grabs, and majority of those rooms are filled with Greek women. And oh, if you are lucky enough to score one of these limited apartments, it’ll cost you and additional $2000/year.

If you are a student involved in many things on campus living in either University Village or the Village at High Point University just doesn’t seem practical, especially if you don’t have a car on campus. Valuable time would be lost waiting for and riding the shuttles to and from campus. If you do have a car you get spend money on the extra fuel burned at all of the red-lights and the starting and stopping of your car, not to mention the extra mileage it takes to get to campus in the most round a bout way. So take the cost of your fuel money and add it to the cost to live in these halls, which is $1400 for U-Ville and $2000 for The Village.

The likelihood of an upper class male getting housed in Finch is slim to none. Leaving males with few “standard” priced housing options. Because of the increase in housing and the limited availability for males, many are looking to move off campus.

“High Point University housing is not competitive to the price of outside housing,” says Keith Brinsfield, a rising chemistry senior and Presidential Scholar. Even with the scholarships he is receiving, paying the price to live on campus isn’t affordable and doesn’t seem reasonable to him.

Upon the completion of York residence hall, students were told that the building was going to be the upper classmen version of Blessing Hall (the only all freshmen hall on campus). York is apartment suite style and can contain two, three, or four people. Just like in Blessing there is a kitchen equipped with a full microwave, refrigerator, and two-burner stove. Upperclassmen were excited to finally have a living option as nice as the one that freshmen get.

However that changed this year. With the increase in incoming freshmen and the over booking of Blessing Hall, two floors of York Hall were taken away to accommodate freshmen.

Next school year there are only two floors that will be available for upperclassmen. One floor for upperclassmen Honor’s Students and another floor for the average upperclassmen. The other two floors now belong to freshmen. What was once promised as a strictly upperclassmen residence hall is now being split up into three sections to serve three different groups of students.

Administration could argue that instead of York Hall, upperclassmen have the ability to live in the University Center, High Point’s newest residence hall. However when comparing the cost to the amenities provided, it just doesn’t seem logical. To live in the University Center it costs $2000/semester. The same it costs to live in York. Except that by living in the University Center you get to have a roommate, share one bathroom with three other people, and lose a kitchen and a living room, totally worth the money right?

Rising senior, Benjamin Tutterow doesn’t think so.

“The Multiplex (University center) charges the same amount of York without all of the amenities. It really seems like for upperclassmen there’s no way to cheaply live on campus. It’s like the school will not allow upperclassmen to live on campus without extra cost,” claims Tutterow.

It’s hard to disagree. It makes one wonder, is living on campus and having convenience worth the extra money?