Re: Oklahoma City University Originally Posted by kateb112 I
too am planning on moving to OKC to attend OKCU Acc. BSN program in january. I am coming from Kentucky and I am having problems finding a good apartment. Can anyone help? I am wondering if safety is a big issue there? IT has been a big help reading the replies to the original post.
Hi Kate!
Yay - so many new folks moving to OKC to go to OCU!!
Okay, so are you wanting to live super close to campus? Other than Cokesbury Court, there really aren't any good apartments close-by. I wouldn't safety is a big issue - OCU is very safe and I've never personally felt unsafe in OKC either. But OCU is in an older part of town where some of the homes have been allowed to deteriorate and are kinda run down... but then you'll see home right across the street that are absolutely gorgeous and obviously well cared for. It's just a somewhat "sporadic" type of neighborhood - hard to describe - maybe I need to take pictures or something. Anyhow, it's not the 'hood but there aren't a lot of apartments and those few that are there - well, I don't see any students living there.
Depending on what kind of apartment you're looking for, aside from Cokesbury, I would suggest looking at least a mile or two from campus. In and around our neighborhood, there are several small apartment buildings - but not complexes - just a few buildings with 4-8 apartments. If you can go just a little farther away, there are plenty of large complex type apartments to choose from. One thing to keep in mind is that OCU is not far away from 2 major highways and so if you find an apartment you like that is close to a highway, it wouldn't take longer than 15 minutes to get to school. It all depends on what kind of apartment and environment you want - smaller, quaint and historic building? newer big complex? pool? golf course? lots of amenities? etc.
Feel free to PM me if you have specific questions or if you're interested I could grab an Apartment Guide and send it to you or something? And I'll keep my eyes open a little more now that I know all of you guys are headed to OKC soon and needing housing - I haven't paid a lot of attention to apartments in the last several years since I've had a house.
Oh, and hopefully some additional scholarship money will come through. All of the schools that I've spoken to use your cumulative attempted hours to determine fed finaid eligibility, but the problem with OCU is that they do not have any sort of appeal process for that section of the satisfactory academic progress policy if you exceed max hours. I am still bugging them about this as they tried to tell me it's a "federal law" thing so it's not appealable - but I have submitted to them at least 10 other appeal forms from other universities in Oklahoma and other states that do allow students to appeal financial aid suspension based on maximum allotted hours. And I told them that I object to the wording of their policy which says my financial aid has been "suspended" which implies that reinstatement is possible given a certain process and standards are met- if that is not the case then they need to change it to "terminated"... Just my rant about OCU finaid... It's really been the only big negative about OCU. When I was attending U of Central Oklahoma I got essentially the same letter but was able to fill out an appeal form, was supposed to go to my advisor to get a degree check to ensure that I was on track for my degree and not just screwing around and then submit that to the finaid office... done deal! Still keeping fingers crossed I can get something accomplished with OCU but... I'm not counting on it.
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