Housing Selection is the process in which students can enter the housing portal and choose their 2024-2025 housing assignment.

Housing Requirements

All students who intend to live on campus for the fall 2024 semester should complete the following to secure a housing assignment:

  • Pay the $500 non-refundable housing deposit by March 15, 2024
  • Complete the housing application in the Emmanuel College Housing Portal by March 18, 2024
  • Be registered as a full-time undergraduate student by May 13, 2024.
    • Students who participated in room selection, but who are not registered, will be removed from housing and will forfeit their selected room and housing deposit. 

Students who do not make a housing deposit and apply for housing, but request fall 2024 housing, will be placed on a non-guaranteed housing waitlist and will be placed into a housing assignment over the summer if space is available.

Housing Selection Timeline

Subject to change as needed.  Changes will be emailed to students Emmanuel email account.

  • Friday March 1, 2024: Housing Accommodation Requests due to the Student Accessibility & Accommodation office
  • Wednesday March 13, 2024: Housing Selection Information Session - 7:30PM in the Library Lecture Hall
  • Friday March 15, 2024: Housing Deposits due
  • Monday March 18, 2024: Housing Application due in the Emmanuel College Housing Portal
  • Wednesday March 20, 2024: Find a Roommate Event - 7:30PM in the Auditorium
  • Tuesday April 2, 2024: Single Bedroom Lottery (St Julie Hall studios and Notre Dame College singles)
  • Thursday April 4, 2024: St. Julie Hall 4-person apartment lottery.  Roommate Groups (groups of 4) must be matched and verified. Rising Sophomores are ineligible to be pulled into St. Julie Hall
  • Tuesday April 9, 2024: St. Julie Hall 5-person apartment lottery.  Roommate Groups (groups of 5) must be matched and verified.  Rising Sophomores are ineligible to be pulled into St. Julie Hall 
  • Thursday April 11, 2024: St. Joseph Hall and Notre Dame Campus Triple Lottery.  Roommate Groups (groups of 3) must be matched and verified
  • Tuesday April 16, 2024: St Joseph’s Hall & Notre Dame Campus Double Room Selection (night 1)
  • Thursday April 18, 2024: St Joseph’s Hall & Notre Dame Campus Double Room Selection (night 2)
  • Friday May 31, 2024: Housing Cancellation Deadline.

Housing Selection Process

  • St. Julie Hall
    • 5 person apartment (one double occupancy bedroom and one triple occupancy bedroom)
    • 4 person apartment (two double occupancy bedrooms)
    • Studio apartments (1 person per apartment)
    • Rising Seniors and Juniors.  Rising Sophomore students are not eligible to be pulled into St. Julie Hall.
  • St. Joseph Hall
    • Traditional style double occupancy rooms (2 people per room)
    • Traditional style triple rooms (3 people per room)
    • Rising Junior and Rising Sophomore students
  • Loretto Hall Ground Floor
    • Traditional style double occupancy rooms (2 people per room)
    • Rising Sophomore students
  • Notre Dame Campus/Garrison House/Carriage House
    • One 4 person apartment (two double occupancy bedrooms)
    • 1 Triple Occupancy Room
    • Double Occupancy Rooms
    • Single Occupancy Rooms
    • Mix of Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors 

Class Year Selection Order

  1. Current and Rising Seniors
  2. Rising Juniors
  3. Rising Sophomores
Current Seniors96+ earned credit hours
Rising Senior64 - 95 earned credit hours
Rising Junior32 -63 earned credit hours
Rising Sophomore0 - 31 earned credit hours

Housing selection times are determined by completed and earned credits as determined by the Registrar’s Office.  Currently registered credits or any transfer credits not received and posted by the Office of the Registrar, nor future planned credits, are not factored into class standing.  Students are able to check their class standing by logging into Student Planning, click My Progress, then view your completed credits on Student Planning on “Total Credits Bar” in the “At a Glance” section of the “My Progress” page on Student Planning.  No other criteria is used to determine housing selection priority.  GPA, athletic or student involvement, employment history, financial history, or previous housing assignments are not considered though student conduct history could impact housing selection options or eligibility.

To determine priority for roommate groups with students of different class years”

  • Students are assigned a housing selection number based on class year
  • Housing Selection numbers are averaged across roommate groups
  • Groups with the same average are randomized into a selection order

Group versus Individual Selection

  • Fully matched roommate groups will be able to choose available apartments or bedrooms before individual selection.  Roommate Groups must be the same size of the space that they are trying to fill (i.e., only a group of 4 can choose a 4 person apartment, a group of 3 can choose a triple, and a group 2 can choose a double)
  • Students without roommate groups will be able to select individual beds in available bedrooms based on available inventory after roommate groups select rooms.  If individual students are unable to select housing during selection due to a lack of inventory, those students will be able to state building and room type preferences and will be placed into housing over the summer as space becomes available.
  • Students must complete the housing application before they can be requested as a roommate.
  • Roommate requests must be mutual. Once a request has been made, the student being requested must either accept or decline the request in the Housing Portal. Unmatched groups will have an impact on your ability to go through the process.
  • Roommate must be current actively enrolled students.  Incoming freshmen and transfer students, and students currently on leave from the college, are not eligible to be chosen as roommates.
  • Roommates living in the same bedroom must be the same gender.  
    • Opposite genders are permitted in St. Julie Hall as long as separate bedrooms are assigned.  Please contact reslife2 [at] emmanuel.edu (reslife2[at]emmanuel[dot]edu) to request an apartment with opposite gender bedrooms.
  • Roommate Groups must be the same size of the space that they are trying to fill (i.e., only a group of 4 can choose a 4 person apartment, a group of 3 can choose a triple, and a group 2 can choose a double)

Students will have the ability to change roommate groups during the selection process to account for rooms they were unable to select (i.e., a group of 4 who cannot select an apartment can break into two groups of 2 to select doubles in St. Joeseph Hall or Notre Dame Campus)

  • Students will receive a housing lottery time which is your assigned time to choose your room on a given selection night in the housing portal. Students are assigned times in designated intervals (typically 1-5 minutes between groups; however, once your activation comes you have until the end of the lottery to choose your housing for next year.
  • Though all students in a group will receive the same selection time, only one student in a roommate group must sign in to select a room.
  • Students who are unable to choose housing during selection will be given the opportunity to designate housing preferences for the fall semester. Residence Life will place students into housing over the summer and will try to fulfill preferences when possible, but housing placements cannot be guaranteed.