Capacity Problems
Between 2002 and 2008, The University has been criticized for overbooking its housing for the fall semester as a result of its large student population and its guarantee of on-campus housing for four years. As a result, many freshmen were shunted to nearby hotels to accommodate the overflow. BU's Daily Free Press often published articles relating to the university's inability to provide acceptable housing for its students. With the opening of StuVi-II in Fall 2009, the school's 960-bed 19 and 26 story towers, BU says it will be able to house the nearly 80 percent of its 16,000 undergraduates who want to live on campus without using hotels.
In the past, the Boston University Office of Housing was criticized for reserving a certain percentage of each dormitory for underclasses. This caused complaints from upperclassmen who were relegated to living in substandard housing due to spots in prime housing being taken by freshmen and sophomores, squeezing the upperclassmen out of the already crowded, at the time, housing system. Additionally, some freshmen placed into predominantly upperclassmen dorms are unsatisfied with their assignments because of the difficulty of engaging with other underclassmen in these locations.
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