Spring Housing Lottery

SPRING HOUSING LOTTERY:

Step 1

Students select one of the following options on BannerWeb:

 Stay in current room in current house (see Step 2)  Stay in current house, but different room (see Step 3)  Lottery into another house (see Step 4)

Step 2

If students choose to stay in their current room in their current house for the following year, their housing is set for the upcoming fall semester.

Step 3

If students choose to stay in their current house but want to change rooms, they participate in room draw in April to draw a room. Once a room is drawn, their housing is set for the upcoming fall semester. If students are dissatisfied with the room they have drawn, they have two choices:

 Fill out a Request for Post Room Draw Change, which allows them to keep the room they drew until/if another room is available  Enter the TBA (To Be Assigned) housing lottery. This option allows students to release the room they drew at room draw and enter the lottery to relocate to a new house.

Step 4

If students do not wish to stay in their current house, they may enter the lottery to change houses. Students are required to go back into BannerWeb a second time to indicate the houses they would like to lottery into and to find out their lottery number. Once the deadline has passed to complete this form, ITS runs the lottery and sends the results to the Housing Coordinator.

How the lottery works: Each house has a certain number of rooms allotted for a particular class year. A computer program goes down the student lottery list in numerical order; it checks the houses each student has indicated they are interested in (in order of preference) and places the student in the first house a room is available. If there are no spaces left for a particular student's class year in any of the houses requested, the student will be assigned TBA status (To Be Assigned). Students complete a TBA form listing the houses, in order of preference, into which they would like to be placed. After room draw, and once the Housing Coordinator is informed of students who will be away in the fall (thus freeing their assigned rooms), the TBA students will be placed by the Housing Coordinator in a room as close to their first choice as possible.