Housing Selection
The Office of Residential Life is implementing a new housing selection software. As they are put in place, Spring 2024 housing selection dates can be found on the ResLife calendar and via WesPortal ->Offices and Services -> Residential Life -> Portal X.
Please see below for FAQs regarding Housing Selection.
- What is different from last year?
The university purchased a new housing software. Please do not rely on your experiences from previous years, read the information sent from our office, attend information sessions and submit a ResLife ticket through your WesPortal if you have questions.
With this new selection software, students select their rooms for next year. At their assigned time, students/groups will have three minutes to browse and put a unit into their cart. After the three-minute time block passes, the next group will have access to select a unit in their cart. A person/group doesn’t HAVE to select before their three minutes are over, but if they delay, they need to understand that the group(s) behind them will be able to make selections.
Once a selection is put into a group/person’s cart, they have three minutes to assign beds (if applicable) and click save and continue. At this point, you should see a confirmation page with the room assignments that you have made and your selection is complete. If this is not completed within the three-minute period, the cart will empty, and they will need to re-select.
It is recommended that you NOT go into the site before your selection time. Doing so could overload the software, not only making it difficult for groups ahead of you to select, but for your group too at your assigned time.
Students will NOT bookmark or rank their preferences in the selection site. Rather, they should create a list outside of the site. When groups log into the site, they will ONLY see remaining available units in their group size and can search by street or residence hall.
- What if I cannot find my friend when I search?
Students will not be eligible to enter the room selection process if:
- They were released to live off campus.
- Their fall status indicates that they are studying abroad or taking a leave.
- They are currently on leave and have not been conditionally returned by the Dean’s office.
- They have already been given a housing assignment for next year.
- They have not yet accepted their housing contract; students must go into the StarRez Portal X and accept their housing contract before they can proceed in the room selection system.
- What are the group leader’s responsibilities?
The group leader forms the group and invites others to join. The group leader can view all members and reassign the leader role if necessary. The group leader selects the group’s housing for next year, everyone is bound by their selection.
- What if the group leader is not available during our group selection time?
The group leader can assign another group member to be the group leader.
- How does someone invite a person to join their group?
The leader forms the group, a group name is auto generated based on the group leader's email address. Students can search for a group using the group name. Group leaders can also search for group members by selecting search for group members by detail and searching by email, WesID, or first name.
- What if someone doesn’t accept my invitation to join my group?
Students have 48 hours to accept an invitation to join a group. If they don’t accept during that time, the invitation will be removed. If someone declines your invitation, you can ask someone else to join the group.
Please note that students in the class of 2025 and 2026 who do not pass the Independent Living Moodle are not eligible to create groups or accept invitations to join a group.
- How are group selection times established?
Groups are randomly assigned a selection time based on class year. Rising seniors will select first, followed by mixed groups of rising seniors and rising juniors, followed by all-rising juniors, mixed rising juniors and rising sophomores, and lastly rising sophomores.
Timeslots are based solely on class year as reported in official university systems. If you are unsure of your class year, check your WesPortal.
- What if my class year changed and I want to live with my friends?
Students can choose to live with students from other class years. By choosing to do so, they agree to select during the appropriate mixed group times.
- What if there are no more units in my group size?
It is important that groupmates plan in the event that there are no more units available in their group size. If that happens, groups will be given permission to select single beds in a larger unit, with the understanding that other students will also select beds in that unit, or they can split and take single beds in multiple units.
- What does it mean to live on a “Quiet Street?”
Students who select houses on “Quiet Streets” agree not to host parties or social events unless they are small and the noise from such events can easily be contained within the house. Further, students agree to not participate in activities that might negatively impact their neighbors and understand that they will be held responsible for disruptive noise or activities caused by them or their guests.
- I’m a senior, what are my chances of getting a house?
The university anticipates approximately 865 members of the class of 2025 will go through room selection. There are approximately 715 available woodframe beds. Apartment living is still considered senior living.
- I’m a junior, what are my chances of getting a Low Rise apartment?
There are 325 spaces in High and Low Rise Apartments. Less than half of the junior class lives in High/Low Rise.
- I’m a sophomore, what are my chances of getting a single room?
Approximately 50% of the sophomore class will live in a one-room double occupancy room.
- What if there are no more spaces available at my selection time?
If at the end of the room selection process, there are no more available spaces, you will receive detailed information from the office of Residential Life regarding when you will receive your housing assignment.
- If I get into Application-Based Housing (Program House, CBLV, Copenhagen), can I still choose to participate in General Room Selection?
Cope applications are binding, students accepted to a Cope are assigned a room and removed from the room selection process.
Students who are accepted to their first-ranked program house or CBLV are removed from the General Room Selection process and will select a room within their community.
Students who are accepted to their second or third ranked program house or CBLV must accept their invitation to the community. If accepted, they will select a room within their community. If they decline their offer, or are waitlisted, they will go through the General Room Selection process.
- What if I have an approved accommodation?
Students who have been approved for an accommodation through Accessibility Services have already received information from our office. Students who believe they qualify for an accommodation should reach out to the office of Accessibility Services to start the application process, with the understanding that the accommodation will be reviewed over the summer.
- The rising seniors who were in triples during their first year are not receiving point adjustments?
Point adjustments/priority selection is not granted to students who lived in triple rooms as first-year students. Priority selection is only given when:
- as rising juniors, there were no apartment-style units left to select, or
- as rising sophomores, there were no more rooms available to select.
Priority selection is only granted to a student for the next housing selection process, it does not carry through every subsequent housing selection.
- If I am going abroad in the fall, how do I select housing?
Students studying abroad in the fall will go through a separate housing selection process for the spring semester. You will not participate in housing selection now.