Fall Housing

Step 1: Pay the $400 Enrollment Fee
After the deposit is paid, you will have access to MyHousing by using your University NetID and password.
Please note that it takes 3-5 business days for the information to fully integrate into the system and you will receive an email when you can apply.

Step 2: Complete the Housing Application in MyHousing
A confirmation email is automatically sent once an application is submitted in MyHousing. Please contact Residential Life if you do not receive this email. livingoncampus@uconn.edu

Refer to the Residency Requirement Information page for more information.

Step 3: Request a Roommate in My College Roomie
Roommate Requests are accepted until June 30.

Step 4: Submit the Health History Form to Student Health and Wellness
Deadlines: July 1 for the Fall semester and January 1 for the Spring semester
studenthealth.uconn.edu/newstudents/

Step 5: Complete Sharing Spaces Module in HuskyCT
An email announcement will be sent to students once the module is available.

Visit Community Living and Roommate Success for more info.

Step 6: Check your UConn email account
Residential Life will email information regarding roommate matching, housing selection/assignment information.

Spring Housing

How to Apply for Housing – Spring Housing

Step 1: Pay the $400 Enrollment Fee – only applicable to newly admitted 1^st year and transfer students
After the deposit is paid, you will have access to MyHousing by using your University NetID and password.
Please note that it takes 3-5 business days for the information to fully integrate into the system and you will receive an email when you can apply.

Step 2: Complete the Housing Application in MyHousing
A confirmation email is automatically sent once an application is submitted in MyHousing. Please contact Residential Life if you do not receive this email. livingoncampus@uconn.edu

Refer to the Residency Requirement Information page for more information.

Step 3: Request a Roommate in My College Roomie
Roommate Requests begin on December 20.

New students requesting to live with a current UConn student

Step 4: Submit the Health History Form to Student Health and Wellness
Deadlines: January 1 for the Spring semester
studenthealth.uconn.edu/newstudents/

Step 5: Complete Sharing Spaces Module in HuskyCT
Visit Community Living and Roommate Success for more info.

Step 6: Check your UConn email account
Residential Life will email information regarding roommate matching, housing selection/assignment information.

Ways to Find a Roommate

Students with a documented health/medical condition or disability which may impact their living environment must contact the Center for Students with Disabilities (CSD) to register and request a housing accommodation.

Students are encouraged to register by July 1 for Fall semester and by December 1 for Spring semester. Requests received after July 1/December 1 may not be honored due to availability.

Center for Students with Disabilities

First Year Selection FAQs

Selection time/Pick time:  This is your designated time to enter the selection process and choose a room.   

General selection: This is the selection process for all students who participate in housing selection and are not designated in a specialty group. 

Roommate selection: This is the period when all students participating in housing selection can request and match with other students to select housing together. 

Pull in: This is the term used to indicate one student is using their selection time and also choosing housing for any matched roommates. 

Acceptance form: This term indicates a form/agreement that an individual completes when opting into a specialty housing group selection process.  A student would complete this form to indicate they want to choose in Honors or a LC instead of participating in General selection. 

Consolidation: This term is used to indicate a process where students in half filled spaces are reassigned to fill up a room. 

MyHousing: This is the name of the online portal students use to interact with housing.  Students can submit applications, choose housing, participate in room changes, view important messages, and view their current housing information. 

My College Roomie: This is the name of the online portal students use to find roommates.  Students can build a profile that helps identify other students with similar living styles and preferences.  Students can also interact with peers through messages and friend requests. 

Room Type: During the selection process this is a term with a search feature to identify certain rooms, such as a single room, double room, suite, apartment. 

Campus Area: During the selection process this is a term with a search feature that identifies areas of campus with multiple building locations, such as North Campus (11 buildings), Northwest (6 buildings), West Campus (4 buildings). 

Hall: During the selection process this is a term with a search feature that identifies individual buildings within a campus area, such as Tolland, which is a building in North Campus. 

New/continuing pair: This is a term used to identify a request from a newly admitted student and a current student to live together. 

Fall 2024

Spring 2025

Fall

-The roommate request process opens in MyHousing on May 6 and will run through the length of the New Student Selection process. Students who are eligible for Selection may select their roommate at any time during this process.

-Please note, all students must be eligible for the online selection process to participate in roommate matching.

-Reslife will make efforts, where possible, to accommodate roommate requests after June 30.  All requests may not be possible due to timing of request and availability of spaces.

If students choose housing first and later want to match with a roommate, they cannot do so.  Roommates must be fully matched before choosing housing. 

-New students are able to request roommates in their MyCollegeRoomie account, using search criteria by name or student ID number.

Fall

Each student needs to email livingoncampus@uconn.edu with their request and include the name and student ID number of their requested roommate. These requests will be accepted May 1-June 30.  Typically, in order to accommodate students together, the continuing student agrees to leave the space which they selected.  The new student acknowledges that they will be assigned by Residential Life staff, instead of participating in the online selection.

Spring

Each student needs to email livingoncampus@uconn.edu with their request and include the name and student ID number of their requested roommate. Due to limited space, we cannot guarantee these requests.

Fall

Students participating in the individual selection process can still try to choose with another student if they are in the same process.  Both students would need to select at the later selection time and would need to search for an available room with two spaces open. 

Fall

New students who don’t match with a roommate will participate in the selection process designated for individual students.  They will choose as an individual into any available room.  When another student chooses into the room, contact information will be available in MyHousing accounts and the students can introduce themselves and begin building a roommate relationship. 

- Students that are accepted into Honors/an LC are able to select housing within the designated spaces for the Honors/LC

Students that live in Honors/an LC are only able to roommate match with another member of Honors or their LC.

Students that are selecting a space as part of Honors/LC/special interest will only be able to view spaces that are part of their special interest community. They will not be able to view spaces outside of their Honors/LC/special interest community.

-Students who are admitted or apply for housing after selection times have been released may be assigned housing by a member of our staff. Once the assignments have been finalized, students will be notified via email.

First year students who don’t choose a room during selection will be assigned and will not have any input into their assignment location or roommate preference. Transfer and regional campus students who don’t choose a room during selection will have their application cancelled and won’t have housing for the upcoming semester.

-Students who do not have a roommate identified/matched may still participate in selection. Students participating in selection as an individual will be able to select from all available spaces at their selection time. You should expect to live in a space that is fully occupied, and another individual participating in Selection is likely to choose the other space in your room.

- Selection times for incoming new students will be randomized.

Freshmen
There are designed first and second year areas of campus, including Werth Tower (primarily students in Learning Communities), Alumni Quadrangle, Towers Quadrangle, Buckley/Shippee (Honors students only), and Hicks and Grange Halls (East Campus). These areas are designed to help students adjust to college life and transition to community style living. Students will be selecting their assignments primarily located within these areas with other first year students as roommates, or with second year students as roommates who are familiar with these areas and can serve as resources. The majority of rooms on campus are doubles, so most first year students will live in these types of spaces. There are some triples and quads that will be available through the online selection process.

Transfers
Newly admitted transfer students will primarily select their own assignments throughout the residential communities on campus. Transfer students are eligible to live in all types of communities, including suite and apartment style areas, and may be selecting with or near other transfer students.

-The majority of housing on the Storrs Campus are double rooms in traditional halls. There are a very limited number of spaces that can accommodate groups of 3 and 4.

-The majority of housing on the Storrs Campus are double rooms in traditional halls. Students should expect to have a roommate. If you have a medical need for a single please contact the Center for Students with Disabilities.

-Students who have a medical need for a housing accommodation should reach out directly to the Center for Students with Disabilities (CSD). Any housing accommodations approved by the CSD will be communicated directly to our office. Residential Life will work in partnership with the CSD to provide a housing assignment that meets approved accommodation needs, pending availability.