Room Selection Priority

For many students, the former residence hall seniority point system was viewed as unfair because points changed depending on which building you lived in and how long you lived there. With After the most recent review of the Residence Hall Contract, students recommended an assignment system based on semesters on campus. As a result, the Housing Contract now states that room choosing and room change practices will be determined by calculating the number of semesters a student has lived on campus and a randomly assigned rank.

Example:
Semester on Campus: 4
Priority Rank: 12,338
Priority Order: 2525

This student has lived on campus for 4 complete semesters. Their total priority points would be 4, which is the most important number to look at when trying to understand your housing priority. This group of students will be housing before everyone who has lived on campus less than 4 semesters and after everyone who has lived on campus for more than 4 semesters. Within all students who have 4 priority points, they are first given a random number out of all students eligible to live on campus, which may be 12338 (out of about 16000). This is the priority rank. Then, within all students who have 4 priority points, they are arranged in order based on their priority rank number. This is called priority order. For this student, they have an order of 2525, which is their place in line out of all students with 4 points.

Priority will determine the order in which students can select rooms during the room selection period and placement priority for processes such as singles, North apartments, and consolidation.

To find your residence hall priority you may go to SPIRE and then HOUSING. Your Room Selection Status page will indicate a variety of information relevant to the selection process, including your Room Selection Priority.