R&DE Student Housing Assignments works with our university partners to assign students to housing. 

• The Office of Accessible Education (OAE) evaluates student requests and informs R&DE about individual housing needs. We then do our best to match the student’s needs with available housing. 
• Residential Education manages RA application and pre-assignment processes and informs R&DE of those assignments, in advance of House and Room Selection. 
• Although the processes overlap, students should learn of pending decisions by the time they enter the portal to select their rooms in May.

Note: For students who miss the application deadline or are unassigned after the first round of House and Room Selection, a second round of assignments will take place in July. More information about that process will be sent to affected students in June.

Good question! University leadership prioritizes placing sophomores in dorms with Resident Fellows (RFs) to support their development.

But don’t worry, while sophomores technically pick first, they are only able to take “sophomore priority spaces.” These are shared rooms in dormitory housing that includes a Resident Fellow. Sophomore priority spaces do not include singles, Row houses, Mirrielees apartments, or EVGR-A Duan Family Hall apartments.

R&DE Student Housing Assignments will ensure that every undergraduate with housing guarantee quarters remaining will receive an assignment prior to the start of autumn quarter.

Each year, the first round of House and Room Selection takes place in May. Over the summer, an average of 100 undergraduate students cancel their housing assignments. Right now, undergraduates live in both traditional undergraduate housing and EVGR-A, which is a graduate residence. This means that placing more undergraduates in EVGR-A reduces the number of graduate students who can live on campus.

If we assigned every undergraduate in the first round, we would end up with many vacancies in undergraduate housing and fewer spaces for graduate students—neither of which is ideal.

To ensure we make the best use of available housing, some juniors and students without a housing guarantee may not receive an assignment in the first round. However, these students will fill the vacancies created over the summer as cancellations occur.

We understand that being unassigned after the first round can feel stressful, but please know that juniors who remain unassigned at this stage are still guaranteed housing as long as they participate in the subsequent assignment rounds. In fact, some students assigned later in the summer end up in highly desirable housing locations that become available due to cancellations.

Again, every undergraduate with housing guarantee quarters remaining will receive an assignment prior to the start of autumn quarter if they apply by the April 16 deadline.

Are you a coterm senior or beyond (i.e., you matriculated in 2021 or earlier)? If you have guarantee quarters remaining, you may apply for either graduate or undergraduate housing, but not both.

Coterm students who will have conferred their undergraduate degrees before autumn or who have used all of their guarantee quarters are only eligible to apply for graduate housing.

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

The Graduate Housing Lottery will open on April 2 and applications are due Thursday, May 1. More information about the Graduate Housing Lottery will be available on the R&DE website in early April.

Coterms with housing guarantee quarters who are interested in applying for undergraduate housing should complete their undergraduate housing applications before the April 16 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 the seniors. Please remember that a meal plan is required in all undergraduate residences, except Mirrielees.

Transitioning from undergraduate to graduate status mid-year? You may not be eligible to move from undergraduate to graduate housing and the meal plan requirements still apply. Students with financial need should consult Financial Aid.