How do students apply for on-campus housing?
Incoming first-year students are guaranteed on-campus housing under the university’s first-year residency rule. After that first year, students who want to live on campus must participate in the Housing Application Process (also known as HAP or the housing lottery). HAP is a one-stage, online sign-up that occurs each January for the upcoming academic year. Entries are placed in a random-number program. In February, students receive a resulting generated numbers, which reflects his or her assignment priority to a specific space. In recent years, we have made first-round housing offers to 85 percent or more of students seeking on-campus housing. Students who did not receive an initial offer frequently received a housing contract later in the summer.
