If you want to live on campus with one to three other students, you may apply for housing in a group. Applying as a group gives you the best opportunity of being assigned together with your preferred roommates—especially if everyone in the group has the same gender, student status and assignment priority level. Please note this information only applies to students living in Single Graduate housing.

Applying as a group is optional. Most students do not apply as a group, and are instead paired with roommate(s) by Student Housing. We will use the responses to the profile questions on your housing application as indicators when pairing students as roommates.

General Information

• Students may apply for housing as a group during the First and Second Rounds of the autumn quarter and in the First Round of the winter, spring and summer quarters.
• Groups cannot be accommodated during the Rolling Assignment rounds.
• Each group member must submit a housing application.
• All group members must be seeking housing for the same quarter.
• Group size can consist of two to four students and can be a mix of genders.
• There is no guarantee that all members will be assigned to the same residence, or to the same apartment within a residence.
• During winter and spring quarters when wholly vacant apartments are rarely available, you are likely to be split between residences.
• It is very unlikely that groups containing both first-year students and continuing students will be assigned together because they do not have the same assignment priority.

Gender Inclusive Housing

When assigning mixed-gender groups to specific apartments, we will be guided by your responses to the questions on the Gender Identity section of your housing application. When you apply in the myHousing portal, you will have an opportunity to indicate whether or not you want to be assigned with someone who shares your gender identity. 

Mixed-gender groups who wish to live together within the same apartment should select one of the follow options: 

• I am comfortable living with someone of any gender identity.
• I am only comfortable with a roommate of any gender identity if they are part of my Lottery group. 

Mixed-gender groups who wish to live in the same apartment with only the group members who share their gender and in neighboring apartments with group members who do not share their gender should select the following option: 

• I wish to be assigned with someone who shares my gender identity as listed above.

Application

All group members must submit an individual housing application through the myHousing portal.

• On your application, you will be able to form a group by clicking “Roommate Groups (Optional)” after submitting your application. Groups can be composed of up to four students. 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.
• Students will be asked to answer a series of profile questions. These questions are used by Student Housing when making roommate matches. They can also help you if you do not currently have a housing group and are looking to find someone with whom to form a group. While everyone is required to answer the questions, you can choose to hide this information from other students.
• To use the roommate finding function, select “Roommate Groups (Optional)” after submitting your application and then click “Suggest Roommates.” Based on your responses, you will see a compatibility percentage for other students who have submitted applications and chosen not to keep their profile information hidden. The number of students visible in roommate finding will increase as more students submit applications. While students’ names are not visible in roommate finding, you can see certain details, as well as their responses to the profile questions.
• If you would like to form a group with someone, you can send them a message through the housing system in order to introduce yourself. To check for received messages, click the hamburger menu next to Home and select “Messages.” Please note that messages sent through the housing portal are accessible to R&DE Student Housing Assignments. Please exercise caution if you mutually determine to communicate outside of the housing portal.

Changing groups or deciding not to be part of a group

You can change your application until the application deadline. Go to the myHousing portal to access your application and navigate to the last page. Once here, you can: 

• Leave a group
• Look for other compatible roommate(s)
• Create or join a new group

If You are Split from Your Group

If you are a member of a group that is split in the first or second rounds of the autumn quarter assignment process and you want to be assigned to the same residence as your group mates, you may file a reassignment request on the myHousing portal, indicating that you have been split from your group and listing your group members in the comment field on the application. Every attempt is made to reunite split groups by the start of autumn quarter. Split group priority is given to students only if: 

• All members have the same assignment priority
• All members listed the same choices in the same order
• All members who wanted to be reunited applied for reassignment by the next round of assignments 

If your group does not meet the split group qualifications above, you should still apply for reassignment, listing your group members and we will attempt to reunite you through the regular reassignment process.

Specific Apartment Assignments

Once you and your group members are assigned to the same type of housing, we will try to assign you within the same apartment. If that is not possible, we will try to assign you to apartments nearby. If you are applying with a mixed-gender group, please refer to the mixed-gender group information above.