New Student Process

The housing application will open Oct. 18, 2024 at 10 a.m. and will close the first Friday at 5 p.m. after Fall courses begin.

• Your login for MyState
• Your housing preferences (including building preferences, roommate preferences and Living-Learning Community preferences).
• Credit card information to pay the $75 confirmation fee online.

• If your application is canceled on or before May 31, your $75 confirmation fee will be refunded to you.
• If your application is canceled between June 1 and July 31, your $75 confirmation fee will be forfeited.
• If your application is canceled on or after Aug. 1 through the date of 60% completion of the current semester, your $75 confirmation fee is forfeited and you will be charged a $200 early termination fee.

Housing and Residential Life enables students to form a Roommate Group within the housing application. You will be able to make a roommate group, search for compatible roommates or join a roommate group.

Between January 31, 2025 at 10 a.m. and May 1, 2025 at 5 p.m., the Roommate Group page will be open to you. During this time, you can change your Roommate Group as many times as you want to. You can leave or delete a Roommate Group at any time.

Within the Housing Application, students can create a Roommate Group name and password. Other students can search for that Roommate Group but can only join if they have the password or if they are approved to be a member by the Group Leader (The creator of the group is the Group Leader by default). Once you are in the Roommate Group, you can also search for and invite others to join your Roommate Group. Students can only be in one Roommate Group.

Here are few extra tips and tricks regarding Roommate Groups:

You can be in a Roommate Group of up to two students. Roommate Groups must be complete and verified by May 1, 2025 at 5 p.m.

We work very hard to honor as many roommate requests as possible. Based on availability, we cannot guarantee that all confirmed roommates will be placed together.

• You can select a specific person as your roommate if you already have someone in mind – both of you will need to have completed the housing application to be able to find each other.
  • When searching for a specific person, limit your search to first name, last name or screen name and gender. Sometimes too much criteria narrows the search too much.
• If you do not have a specific person in mind, you can search for a compatible roommate by profile.
• If you prefer not to seek out a preferred roommate, you will be randomly assigned one based on profile matching.
• Make sure you check your "About Me" tab to ensure that you "Tick this box if you wish to be included in the roommate search process". If a friend is searching for you, they won't be able to find you UNLESS this box is checked. If you are going random, no one will be able to see your profile UNLESS this box is checked.
• If you have applied for a Living-Learning Community, your preferred roommate must also be accepted into the same Living-Learning Community or you will not be placed together.
• We will prioritize Living-Learning Community over roommate preferences.
• You cannot accept every roommate group invitation as you can only be in one Roommate Group. We encourage you to take the time to connect with peers and find a good roommate match for yourself.
• You can leave or delete a Roommate Group at any time. In order to join a different group, you must leave or delete the group you are currently in.

New students will be able to utilize the reassignment process in the housing application from June 3, 2025 at 10 a.m. until July 8, 2025 at 5 p.m. Students will be able to log in, see any available space and reassign themselves to a new space.