What is streaming and how does it affect my residence preferences?
For the purposes of residence allocation, every first-year student is either a stream 4 or a stream 8 student. You are a stream 4 student if you are in a co-op program and your first work term is in January 2007. You are a stream 8 student if you are in a regular program or a co-op program and your first work term is in May 2007 or later. Only students in some Math and Engineering programs are stream 4. All other faculties are stream 8. Streaming is an important part of the residence allocation process as it allows us to place students together in communities that will remain together for both terms of first year – whether it’s fall and winter (stream 8) or fall and spring (stream 4).
