Students who want housing for the 2025–26 academic year must sign up for housing via the housing portal between February 24 and March 14. Your application for housing will include room preferences as well as roommate choices. To learn more about your options, visit these pages:
Since the pandemic, residence life has auto-allocated residents into room assignments across campus. The auto-allocation process, while simple in theory, has impacted returning student satisfaction with on-campus housing through not pairing in verified roommate groups, assigning spaces outside of preference, and other concerns.
In an effort to increase resident satisfaction and to provide returning students with agency regarding their assignments, residence life is returning to housing selection for the 2025–26 academic year. This shift will also allow students to know what their assignment is and who their roommate is, if applicable, and provides upper division students with an earlier opportunity to make decisions about whether they want to live on campus based on the spaces available to them.
All first- and second-year students will be required to live on campus.
Study abroad semesters will count towards a student’s residency requirement.
The housing selection process allows returning students who submit an academic year housing application to
select their on-campus housing location;
form roommate groups, if desired, for the upcoming academic year.
February 24, 2025: Housing portal opens for returning-student applications
March 5, 2025: Info session
March 14, 2025: Housing portal closes for returning-student applications
March 17–21, 2025: Building info drop-ins (AC Led)
Anna Mann, Aspen, Birchwood, Chittick, ODB, RCAs, Sequoia, Sitka, Woodbridge
Interest-Based Housing
Student of Color Community, Sustainability and Environmental Justice Kollective, Language Houses, and Queer Collective
Steps
All eligible students who are required or want to live on campus must complete the 2025–26 Academic Year Housing Application between Monday, February 24, 2025, and Friday, March 14, 2025.
Housing Selection Number
All applicants will receive notification of their housing selection time slot via email the week prior to their scheduled selection time.
Housing Portal
Returning students must submit applications through the housing portal between February 24 and March 14 to be eligible for housing selection. In the housing portal, returning students select their board plans, review a renter’s insurance option, and identify potential roommates and building preferences. While the building preferences will not be utilized for selection, they are helpful if a student cancels or does not choose an assignment during the selection process and then later determines they want to live on campus.
Students who are offered an assignment in an interest-based community will be auto allocated.
During a selection time slot, a student will be able to review the housing floor plans for their building options and select a placement.
Once a placement is determined, the student, and their roommates if applicable, will notify a residence life staff member.
The residence life staff member will assign their placement via the housing portal, as well as confirm their board plan.
When room and board selection are confirmed to be in the housing portal, a sophomore will have completed the housing selection process. A rising upper division student will log into the portal to sign their housing contract.
Once a contract is signed, the student will have a placement for the 2025–26 academic year. If a rising upper division student decides not to reside on campus and is eligible to live off campus, they will have until June 1 to cancel their housing contract. After June 1, cancellations will not be permitted unless the student is granted an appeal exception due to an extenuating circumstance that the student has little to no control over.
Order of Time Slots
April 14, 2025: Sophomores (roommate groups prioritized)
April 15, 2025: Sophomores continued
April 16, 2025: Upper division (roommate groups prioritized)
April 17, 2025: Upper division continued
April 18, 2025: Overflow time for students who did not select an assignment, applied after the application deadline, or want to make a change to their selected room.
April 19, 2025: Overflow time for students who did not select an assignment, applied after the application deadline, or want to make a change to their selected room.
FAQ
A student can indicate a proxy who can select a placement on their behalf. When utilizing a proxy, the student will have 24 hours to sign their contract after a placement has been selected. If the student who utilized a proxy does not sign the contract within 24 hours for their selected room, the room will go back into the selection pool.
Applying earlier does not increase the chance of a better time slot. Roommate groups will be prioritized in the selection process, and students are encouraged to confirm a roommate while the housing application is open.
No: Time slots cannot be changed or swapped.
Students are able to apply for housing after the application deadline and select a housing assignment during an overflow period.
A rising sophomore who does not submit a housing application will be assigned an on-campus placement as part of the residency requirement. If a sophomore would like to change their placement, they would be able to review available options and select a different housing assignment during the overflow periods.
A rising upper division student is not required to live on campus. If their preference is not available, they can decide to select a different housing assignment or opt for off-campus housing.
If a student is selected as a resident for an interest-based community, then the student does not participate in the housing selection process. If the student wants to participate in the housing selection process, then they would be declining the offer to reside in an interest-based community.
A rising upper division student will have until June 1 to cancel their housing contract. After June 1, cancellations will not be permitted unless the student is granted an appeal exception due to an extenuating circumstance that the student has little to no control over.
A selection number is auto-generated within a classification. For example, the number range for sophomores is 1–999, and the upper division range is 1000–2000 (when presented to the student, the number will be shortened, e.g.: 2002 for upper division = 02 for selection).
Residence life is currently not expanding the guaranteed two-year (four-semester) residency requirement.
Seeking out a roommate prior to housing selection is highly recommended. Residence life reserves the right to assign roommates, reassign residents who are without roommates, change room assignments, and/or use a room when it is not occupied.