This tip page includes preliminary information for students about housing options, how to proceed with room selection for next year and important room selection dates.

Calendar of Important Dates

March 15 On-line contract submission begins

March 29 SIH, Academic Living Center, and Greek member lists due to Reslife

April 5 Deadline for all RA, D'Lion, First Year Fellow, SIH, Fraternity Quad House and Greek, and RA Roommates to submit on-line contracts

April 10 Contract deadline—on-line submission process closes 11:59 pm

April 12 Selection dates and times can be found on Portal and will be emailed to you

April 15-19 On-line Room Selection (8am—6pm Monday – Friday)

April 28 last day to complete Dining contract online – due by 11:59 pm. Thereafter, $50 late fee for submission

Housing Options Based On Group Size

How Does Room Selection Work?

There are three steps to the process: The first step is to complete the on-line application (which includes selecting roommates), the second step is to select a room on-line, and the final step is to select a meal plan on-line.

The room selection process is based on class year seniority. Each student receives a specific day and time for selection. Rising seniors will receive the earliest days and times to select their room, followed by rising juniors and then by rising sophomores. Within class year, days and times are randomly assigned. Every student who submits a housing application will have a selection day and time assigned.

Students will have access to the types of housing that fits their housing group size at the time they select their room – depending on remaining availability and roommate designations. If there are no longer any available options, the student will need to return to their housing application and reduce the number of students in their housing group.

You must have the right number of students to fill the room type that you want to select – you must have six students to fill a six person suite, four students to fill a four person apartment or suite, etc.

There is only one exception to the “must fill” rule. A single student may select a double room and the remaining space in the room will be filled by another lottery participant or during the summer. 

Once the room selection process is underway, students who have decided they want to live together need to determine who among them has the best selection day and time. The student with the earliest day and time will be able to look at remaining available spaces and pull all confirmed students into the housing space selected.

For example, Student A has a selection time of Wednesday, at 4:02pm. Students B, C, D, E and F are all confirmed roommates. At 4:02, Student A logs in and checks the 6 person suite availability in Anderson Tower. Student A selects Anderson 410 and then assigns each roommate to a specific room in the suite. Once Student A opens Anderson 410 they will have a 3 minute hold on the suite in order to assign each roommate. If not completed within 3 minutes the cart will time out and the suite will return to the selection page. Each of the 6 students will then receive confirmation of the building and room and will be prompted to go on-line to select a meal plan appropriate to the building. Since a room has already been selected on their behalf, students B, C, D, E and F will not need to select during their own lottery time.

Meal plans must be selected individually.

Big Picture Items

Who Is Eligible to Paricipate in Room Selection? Students in the class of 2027 and 2028 are required to live on campus ( in residence halls, greek housing, or special interest housing). Juniors (2026) and Seniors (2025) are eligible but not required. Off campus students are eligible and will automatically have access to the application.

Take 5, class of 2024 and E5 are not eligible for on campus housing for 2023-24.

Gender Inclusive Housing Policy Gender-inclusive housing seeks to provide an environment that is welcoming to all gender identities and is not limited to the traditional gender binary (male and female).

We recognize that same-sex room assignments are not ideal or appropriate for all students. Residential Life provides opportunities for students to live in singles in apartments and suites in mixed groups as well as any standard double room on a co-ed floor as well as double rooms in suites.

This housing option allows students to select roommates regardless of their sex, gender, or gender expression and to broadly choose from the relevant housing options. Unless specific mutual requests are made by the roommates, Residential Life will continue to assign students based on the standard gender binary (male/female). If you are considering a coed double room option, please contact housingassignments@reslife.rochester.edu.

Medical Accomodations

Students who may need housing accommodations due to a disability must submit a request through Disabilities Services no later than Friday, April 5th

Meal Plans

All students living on campus and off campus must be on a meal plan. For students living on campus, the meal plan is tied to the residence hall you live in and relates to the availability of kitchens. The more kitchen facilities, the smaller the required meal plan. The fewer kitchen facilities, the larger the required plan options. Consider this when selecting your room for next year.

Off campus students are also required to be on meal plans. Off campus students may select any of the residential plans or a com- muter meal plan. The website for selecting a meal plan as a commuter student is https://dining.rochester.edu/meal-plans/. Off campus students will be able to download the dining application there. Edit the document and save your changes. Then save it as a pdf and email to mealplans@services.rochester.edu

Standard Contract vs. Special Limited Contract