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Welcome to the Housing Services (HS) Room Selection Website for 2008. Room Selection is the process for current CUA residents to apply for an on-campus assignment for the 2008-2009 academic year. The information provided on the following pages will help to clarify the process and provide answers to some frequently asked questions. Resources and information available below include the Six Steps of the Process, Publicity, Dates, Forms, and Rates, Lottery Resources (inlcuding floor plans and space availability), Special Selection Sessions, Additional Housing Options for Students (including waitlist information), Update on Junior/Senior Selection and an Update on Sophomore Selection.
The university requires all freshman and sophomore undergraduate students to live in campus housing. As is the case on most residential campuses, on-campus housing for junior and senior students is not automatically guaranteed. During the Spring semester, a lottery is conducted where interested junior and senior students may select housing from available rooms for the next academic year. HS also offers guidance to upperclassmen and graduate students seeking off-campus residence.
As you prepare your housing options for the selection process, please keep in mind the spaces that will be available within your lottery. Unfortunately, not everyone will be able to select his/her first preference. In addition, due to the many fluid variables within the Selection Process, including student roommate and room type preference, HS is unable to predict your chances for obtaining a particular type of space. HS recommends that you or your group have at least five housing options. This will be especially important for Juniors and Seniors. In addition, if your preferred spaces are within suites or apartments, you should pre-determine who will live in each bedroom in order to make your selection process go more smoothly.
The SixSteps of the Room Selection Process
Complete a Room Selection Intent Form available in HS, located in 160 Cardinal Hall, or in your RHO. Forms will be available by December 3, 2007.
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Ensure your financial committments to the University are in good standing.
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Log into MyHousing beginning February 21, 2008 to obtain your lottery number and selection time.
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Accept the Residence Hall and Dining Services Agreement and select your roommates on MyHousing prior to your selection time.
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Participate in the appropriate selection session to select your assignment.
Additional information will be added as it is available. For more information on these specific topics, please click on the links below. If you have additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Publicity
 Newsletter: November 12, 2007 - emailed to all undergrads and to current graduate residents.
This Week @ CUA: December 3, 2007
Dining Table Tents: Week of December 3, 2007
This Week @ CUA: December 10, 2007
Reminders: December 17, 2007 - emailed to Spring residents.
Graduate Lottery Information: Janaury 10, 2008 - emailed to current graduate residents.
Newsletter: January 14, 2008 - emailed to all undergrads and to current graduate residents.
Poster: January 15, 2008 - posted in Residence Halls and around campus.
Postcards: January 18, 2008 - delivered to rooms of new freshmen, new transfers, and new graduate residents.
This Week @ CUA: January 28, 2008
This Week @ CUA: February 4, 2008
Newsletter February 5, 2008 - emailed to all undergrads and current graduate residents.
Reminders: March 7, 2008 - emailed to all participants in the Jr/Sr Lottery.
Jr/Sr Lottery is Closed; Housing Options Available: March 12, 2008 - emailed to participants remaining in the Jr/Sr Lottery.
Sophomore Lottery Reminder - emailed to all participants in the Sophomore Lottery.
Last Day of Sophomore Lottery Message - emailed to remaining participants of Sophomore Lottery.
Dates, Forms, and Rates
Room Selection FAQs
Dates and Deadlines
Dining Plans
Information Sessions and Neighborhood Visits
Intent Forms and Prepayments
Residence Hall and Dining Services Agreement
Room Rates
Lottery Resources
Floor Plans
MyHousing Guide - This resource will familiarize you with MyHousing features and help answer your questions.
Space Availability - This page shows the general availability of spaces in each lottery and will be updated as the lotteries progress.
Binders are available in Housing Services and the RHOs with Room Selection information including floor plans.
Special Selection Sessions
Disability Selection - Information for students with disabilities that would like to request housing accommodations. Please note: When offering spaces for Housing Accommodations a student's needs will be met; however, their preferences, while considered, are not guaranteed.
Graduate and Law Selection - Information for current graduate and law residents that would like to return to campus housing.
Honors Residential Community and Application Information - Information for students in the Honors Program that would like to live in Honors Housing.
Upperclass Residential College and McDonald Week - Information for upperclass students interested in living in the Residential College. Applications are available in the CV RHO in Camalier House.
Additional Housing Options for Students
Off-Campus Housing Resource Center
Off-Campus Housing Fair April 7, 2008 4-7pm in the Pryz Great Room
Options for Students Not Required to Live on Campus - for Rising Juniors and Seniors who are unable to select a space during the lottery.
Ongoing Room Selection for Students Required to Live on Campus - for Rising Sophomores who do not select a space during the lottery.
Wait List Information
Guaranteed Wait List - Students required to live on campus.
Non-Guaranteed Wait List - Students not required to live on campus.
Single Room Wait List - Students with confirmed assignments that prefer a single.
Junior/Senior Selection Update
Of the 607 upperclass students that submitted materials to be included in the Room Selection Process, over 480 rising juniors and seniors selected an assignment for next year through their room selection process that ended on March 12, 2008. Approximately 20 students withdrew from the process after accepting residential student staff positions for next year. The remaining 106 students who applied for campus housing are eligible for placement on the non-guaranteed wait list.
The majority of the students who did not get an assignment had the opportunity to select a space, but passed on the opportunity given that the type of room or hall they wanted was no longer available. As indicated on the Space Availability webpage, in actuality only 29 students never had an opportunity to select a space because all rooms were taken by the time that their lottery number was activated.
The proportion of allocated male (36%) and female (64%) junior and senior spaces was based on the percentage of each gender applying for housing. Over 83% of rising juniors and seniors who applied for campus housing were accommodated. Last year, we were able to accommodate 72%.
Sophomore Selection Update
Over 732 rising sophomores selected an assignment for next year through their room selection process that ended March 28, 2008. The remaining 24 rising sophomores who applied for campus housing had the opportunity to select a space, but passed on the opportunity given that the type of room or hall they wanted was no longer available. These students will be placed on the guaranteed wait list and assigned to the remaining available spaces.
Housing Services and the Dean of Students are actively working with the current freshmen who did not apply for housing for next academic year. Should these students choose to return to CUA in the fall, they will be placed on the guaranteed wait list and assigned spaces as they become available.
Last Revised 02-Apr-08 05:05 PM.
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