The process by which students select undergraduate housing is a self-select model, This way of selecting housing gives students more agency by allowing them to make decisions in real time based on exactly what is available when it is their time to pick a house and room.

House and Room Selection applications are due by 11:59 p.m. PT on Tuesday, April 14. If you are seeking a disability accommodation, you must submit your Housing Accommodation Request Form (HARF) to the Office of Accessible Education (OAE) by March 6 and your housing application by Friday, March 13. If you are submitting a religious observance request for requests listed on the application, you must submit your housing applications by Wednesday, April 8. If you are submitting a religious observance request form (only for requests not listed on the housing application) to the Office for Religious and Spiritual Life, the form must also be submitted by Wednesday, April 8. See below for details.

How it works

Submit your autumn quarter housing application in the MyHousing portal by the applicable deadline. On this application, you will sign the residence agreement, form a group if desired, and indicate your gender. While the application is due on or before April 14, students may continue to edit their applications to change their group makeups up until 8 a.m. on May 18. Groups may consist of up to four students.Only students who pick both their residence and room in Self-Select during General House and Room Selection may form groups.
On May 21 you will be emailed your gate time, which is the date and time you can select your house and room for next year. If you are part of a group, every member of the group will have the same gate time. Gate times are randomly assigned within each class year.
During General House and Room Selection, seniors will select first, then juniors, and then sophomores. If you are in a group with a mix of class years, your gate time will be assigned based on the lowest class year. For example, a group of two seniors and a junior will receive a junior gate time.
General House and Room Selection will begin on Friday, May 22 when preassigned students select rooms within their preassigned houses. It will resume on Tuesday, May 26 and run through Friday, May 29, with gate times running from 8 a.m. - 10 p.m. daily. House and room selection will close at 5 p.m. on May 29.
At your gate time, log into the housing portal at MyHousing.Stanford.edu to see which rooms are available to select. Select and confirm your house and room assignment.
You may continue going into the system to change your house and room assignment up until House and Room Selection closes at 5 p.m. on Friday, May 29.
While you do not have to select your room right at your gate time, be advised that waiting will mean fewer options available to you when you do select.
If you do not select a room before 5 p.m. on Friday, May 29, you will remain unassigned, but you will be eligible for assignment over the summer months.

To submit your housing application

Log into MyHousing.Stanford.edu
Select Undergraduate Housing Application
Select the quarter for which you are applying (the quarter you plan to move in)
Follow the instructions to apply for housing
Be sure to submit the application

What if I'm not available at my gate time?

If you are part of a group, you will have the opportunity to designate another student in your group as a proxy to go into the housing system at your gate time and select your house and room assignment for you. Groups may want to appoint one person in the group to be the proxy for everyone in the group in order to make selecting easier. More information about appointing a proxy will be included in your gate time email which will be sent on May 21.

You also have the option of logging in to select a house and room after your gate time, but before House and Room Selection ends on May 29. If you do not sign in at your designated gate time, there will be fewer rooms from which to select, as more gate times will have come and gone.

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How is gender considered in the House and Room Selection process?

In the housing assignment process, students will be asked to select one of three gender options on their housing application. The gender options are:

Male (for students who identify as male)
Female (for students who identify as female)
Non-binary/Fluid (for students who do not identify as either male or female)

The gender option you choose is up to you, and you will have the ability to change your gender identification each year when you apply for housing. Please note that you will not be able to change your gender for this year after the housing application closes on April 14. If you have concerns about your gender identification after April 14, please contact Housing Assignments.

All rooms will be coded in one of four ways.

Male rooms (only students who have identified as male can select these spaces)
Female rooms (only students who have identified as female can select these spaces)
Non-binary/Fluid rooms (only students who have identified as Non-binary/Fluid can select these spaces)
Gender neutral (any student, regardless of their gender, can select these spaces)

When you enter the self-select system, you will only be able to see the rooms that match your gender identification + the gender neutral rooms. For example, if you select Female as your gender identification, you will only see female rooms and gender neutral rooms.

Gender neutral rooms are available in each house and any student, regardless of gender, can select these rooms. This means a gender neutral room could be populated with students who have different or the same genders. For example, a gender neutral double room could be selected by a male and female student, a male and non-binary/fluid student, a female and non-binary/fluid student, two male students, two female students, or two non-binary/fluid students.

You should not select a gender neutral room unless you are comfortable living with someone of any gender identity.

While gender neutral housing options will be available in each house, not all houses have gender neutral bathrooms. A list of houses with gender neutral bathrooms is available here.

Please note that gender neutral housing is not for couples. Undergraduate students in long-term, intimate, committed relationships are welcome to apply for couples graduate housing. Unless they are married or in a legally-recognized domestic partnership, students eligible for undergraduate housing are not assigned to couples housing until all graduate students have been accommodated.

Please note that individual housing application gender data is for housing assignment use only and your specific gender selection will not flow into any non-housing systems. Anonymized and aggregated housing application gender data may be shared with Stanford Institutional Research & Decision Support (IRDS).

How are groups managed in the House and Room Selection process?

Only students who select their residence in Self-Select during General House and Room Selection may form groups. Students who do not select their residence in Self-Select but receive priority assignment due to special circumstances – students with approved disability-based accommodations, students selected for pre-assignment to theme houses, and students with religious observance requests – cannot form groups.

For students eligible to form groups, you will be able to form a group on your application by clicking “Roommate Groups (Optional)” after submitting your application. Groups may consist of up to four students. If you are in a group with a mix of class years, your gate time will be assigned based on the lowest class year. For example, a group of two seniors and a junior will receive a junior gate time.

If you are the first of your group to apply, you will establish a group name and password. If you are joining a group, you will enter the name and password established by the first group member to apply.

Although the deadline to apply for House and Room Selection is April 14, students will be able to edit the group information on their housing applications until 8 a.m. on May 18.

Can coterms live in undergraduate housing?

Students with coterm status who are currently seniors or beyond (i.e. students who matriculated in 2022 or earlier) may apply for either graduate or undergraduate housing if they have guarantee quarters remaining. They may not apply for both processes.

Coterms who will have conferred their undergraduate degrees by the start of autumn or who have used all of their guarantee quarters are only eligible to apply for grad housing.

Coterms who are currently juniors or sophomores and who have guarantee quarters remaining are only eligible for undergraduate housing.

Coterms applying for undergraduate housing should complete their undergraduate housing applications before the April 14 deadline. These students will then participate in the House and Room Selection process like all other undergraduates and will select at the same time as their class cohort. Please remember that a meal plan is required in all undergraduate residences, except Mirrielees. Students who transition from undergraduate to graduate status mid-year may not be eligible to move from undergraduate to graduate housing and students will not be granted meal plan waivers due to coterm status. Students with financial need should consult Financial Aid.

What do I do if I have a disability or religious need for a certain type of housing?

To ensure that students with disabilities are placed in housing that meets their needs, students who have approved accommodations will be assigned in advance of the House and Room Selection process. Therefore, they will not be assigned a gate time or participate in the self-select process.

How it works

Students who have disability-related housing needs must request housing accommodations through the Office of Accessible Education (OAE). Any student needing an accommodation who has not registered with the OAE previously should do so immediately. Registration and submission of the Housing Accommodation Request Form (HARF) will be online through OAE Connect. The student with the disability need must file a Housing Accommodation Request Form with the Office of Accessible Education by Friday, March 6.
Students with disability needs must submit their housing applications by 5 p.m. on Friday, March 14. On their application, they should sign the residence agreement, select their gender, and indicate that they are participating in the disability accommodation process.
Students who indicate that they are participating in the disability accommodation process will be prompted to rank their housing options. Housing Assignments staff will use these choices when assigning students to houses and rooms. Students are strongly encouraged to keep ranking choices until they have no preference regarding the choices left unranked. If you have a limited number of choices and cannot be placed in any of them, you will be assigned to a residence and/or room type not listed on your application.
In order to be fair and equitable, students' assignments will be commensurate with their class year and disability-related need.
Students assigned through this process do not have the option to reject their housing assignment and participate in the self-select process.
Disability-related requests submitted after the deadline will be considered on a rolling basis, if and when space becomes available. Students submitting late requests should not expect to receive a housing assignment that meets their needs until the summer months at the earliest.
NEW THIS YEAR – Like other students who do not select their residence in Self-Select during General House and Room Selection, students with approved disability-based accommodations are not eligible to form or join assignment groups. Students with approved disability accommodations are assigned first to ensure we meet our obligation to provide reasonable accommodations. In the past, the university allowed the accommodation-based priority to be extended to up to three chosen groupmates, and these groups reduced the remaining housing inventory for General House and Room Selection. Starting this year, the university will provide assignment priority only to the student with approved accommodations and not extend it to others. We understand living with friends is important. Because students with approved accommodations will learn their assignments prior to General House and Room Selection, they can share their assignments so that their friends can attempt to select a room in the same residence during General House and Room Selection.
Please note that by requesting a disability-based accommodation from R&DE and/or the Office of Accessible Education, you are affirming your need for such an accommodation. Seeking an accommodation to which you are not entitled, or falsifying documents, is a violation of the Fundamental Standard.

What do I need to do if I'm applying for Pre-Assignment?

All students, including students who are participating in the Pre-Assignment process for theme residences, must sign the residence agreement and submit their housing applications by the April 14 deadline. Pre-Assignment results will be announced by Res Ed on May 13. Even though the housing application is due on April 14, students will have the ability to edit their groups up until 8 a.m. on May 18. This will give students the opportunity to adjust their groups based on the pre-assignment results.

Students who are selected for pre-assignment into a theme house cannot form groups. If one or more students in a group are selected to pre-assign into a theme house, those students will be assigned to the theme house(s) and the other group members will go through the house and room selection process.

Students who successfully pre-assign will be assigned a gate time but will only be able to select a room within their pre-assigned residence.

What do I need to do if I'm serving as a residential student leader (RA, RT or ETA)?

Students who have been selected as residential student staff members for next year must sign the residence agreement and submit a housing application by the April 14 deadline (or by March 13 if requesting a disability accommodation). They should not form a group on their application. Student staff will not be issued gate times as they will be assigned to student staff rooms before House and Room Selection opens on May 22. Residential student leaders cannot form groups.

What do I need to do if I will live in my Greek house?

Students who are selected to live in their Greek houses must sign the residence agreement and submit a housing application by the April 14 deadline (or by March 13 if requesting a disability accommodation). These students will not be issued gate times as they will be assigned outside of the House and Room Selection process.

What do I do if I'm going abroad or taking a leave for autumn quarter but need housing for winter or spring quarter 2026-27?

Students who will be abroad or on leave autumn quarter may submit a winter or spring quarter housing application. The winter quarter application is due on October 23, 2026. The spring quarter application is due February 5, 2027. Students applying for winter or spring quarter housing will not participate in the self-select process. Instead, they will rank the choices and be assigned based on those choices and their class year.

Why are student with disability-based accommodations not allowed to form groups like other students?

We are fully committed to ensuring that students with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations in accordance with our legal obligations, and we do so in part by giving these students priority in the housing assignment process. We are not required to extend the same priority to additional students based solely on their friendship with a student with approved accommodations.

In the past, the university allowed the accommodation-based priority to be extended to up to three chosen groupmates who do not have the same disability-based needs, and these groups reduced the remaining housing inventory for General House and Room Selection. This year, the university will provide assignment priority only to the student with approved accommodations and not extend it to others. Similarly, other students who receive priority in the housing assignment process due to special circumstances – students selected for pre-assignment for theme houses, and students with religious observance requests – also cannot form groups.

We understand that housing decisions are deeply personal and that living with friends is important. Our goal is not to disadvantage anyone, but to ensure that we meet legal accommodation requirements while also keeping the process as fair as possible for the entire student body.

What are the options for students who both need accommodations and want to live with friends?

The change in policy does not prevent students with disabilities from receiving accommodations or from living with their friends. OAE and R&DE will continue to work with students with disabilities to provide them with needed accommodations. Because students with approved accommodations will learn their assignments prior to General House and Room Selection, they can share their assignments with their friends, who can then attempt to select a room in the same residence when it is their time during General House and Room Selection.

We understand the desire and preference to live with friends. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to students with disabilities, and we prioritize their housing assignments for that reason. But due to other needs and equity considerations, we are unable to satisfy everyone’s preferences.

What if my disability requires me to live with/near specific people?

If your disability requires that you live with a Personal Care Attendant, you can discuss that option with the Office of Accessible Education. Learn more here: https://oae.stanford.edu/students/personal-care-attendants-pcas

Who made the decision that students with assignment priority can no longer form groups?

The decision was made to limit groups to students who participate in General House and Room Selection and don’t have any priority assignment. R&DE is responsible for executing the housing assignment process. However, the policies which guide the process are the result of collaboration between R&DE and Student Affairs with the Provost ultimately approving assignment policies.

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Summer Housing 2026

Who is eligible for Summer Housing?

Stanford undergraduates are welcome to apply for an 8 week or 10 week summer quarter housing contract regardless of enrollment status if they are in student housing spring quarter and will be in student housing autumn quarter. Additionally, students who confer their undergraduate degrees this June are welcome to apply for an 8 or 10 week summer quarter contract.

During summer quarter Stanford also welcomes visiting students from other universities who are participating in the Stanford Summer Session program. These students are only eligible for 8 week contracts.

What housing options are available for summer housing?

Unlike during the academic year, summer housing is only offered in select undergraduate residences. See our website for a complete list.

How much does summer housing cost?

Summer housing rates are available on our website.

Is a meal plan required for summer housing?

Yes, a meal plan is required in all summer undergraduate residences except for Mirrielees.

Is interim housing available between spring and summer quarter and summer and autumn quarter?

Yes! Interim housing between spring and summer quarters is only available to students in both spring and summer housing. Students who apply for and are assigned to summer quarter housing are required to maintain continuous housing from Spring Quarter to Summer Quarter (if they are currently living on campus) and are responsible for any costs associated with interim housing.

Summer-autumn interim housing is optional for students who are assigned for both summer (10-week contract) and autumn quarters. Summer-autumn interim housing is only available in Toyon Hall. During the summer-autumn interim period, dining may be limited to only one location.

See summer undergraduate housing rates chart for more information on interim housing costs.

Dining

Visit the dining page of the R&DE website for information.

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