Housing Assignment Process

RPI requires all freshmen and sophomores to live on campus in residence halls, and has limited housing available for upperclassmen and graduate students. In early 2025, the Senate Student Life Committee requested information from Student Living and Learning on how the assignment process works. SLL Dean John Lawler explained the process in an email sent to the Student Life Committee chair, which is summarized here:

Once the housing application opens for returning students, it remains open through the summer in two phases:

• In phase one, students may indicate preferences for housing and select roommate groups.
• In phase two, students may indicate preferences for housing, but may not designate roommates. The end of this phase is the publicized deadline for applying for housing.

SLL places all students manually. Their order of priority is the following:

• Students with housing accommodations for health, accessibility, or other reasons
• Students requesting gender neutral housing
• Roommate groups

Roommate groups are placed in no particular order. SLL generally starts by placing four-person roommate groups in available four-person apartments or suites. Usually, some four-person groups must be split into two adjacent two-person units due to limited space. After four-person groups, doubles are placed, and so on.

• Students who applied after the end of the second phase or who did not apply but are required to live on campus

References

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