Frequently Asked Questions
The Office of Residential Life encourages you to meet as many new people as possible. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, gender orientation, nationality or culture when assigning roommates.
Incoming First Year students who have completed and submitted the Residence Hall Agreement are given access to the Roommate Search tool following the June Orientation sessions, with which you are able to request one roommate for the upcoming academic year.
Requests for additional roommates can be made through the Roommate Search tool, but our department only guarantees placement with your first confirmed roommate. Housing assignments are made manually for incoming first-year students and are typically sent out via email by late July or early August.
Incoming First Year students live in East Hall, Loftus Hall or Rice Hall.
Incoming Transfer students live in the Conese Hall, Rice Hall or Hales Hall.
The Office of Residential Life sends out housing assignments approximately the first week of August.
You can request a room/housing assignment change when the formal process opens each semester. The dates are listed in our important dates here. If you would like to request a room/housing assignment change, please reach out to your residence hall director.
Yes, housing is available. The Office of Residential Life will always work to accommodate the needs of long-distance and international students.
Please contact our office for more information.
You can make changes through September 1, 2025 by completing this form.
You cannot downgrade from standard, it is the lowest plan offered.
For bonus add on flex points (1200 points, $1000 for the year; 600 points/$500 per semester) complete this form.
If you are an upperclassman or transfer student, you can cancel at any time. If you do not know how to cancel, email us! The breakage fee for cancellations through 9/1/25 is $400. If you are a first-year or second-year student, you must live within 25 miles to campus in order to commute from home. If you’re interested in an exemption, email us!
Lost IDs can be replaced for a fee at campus safety.
Lost keys can be replaced for a $200 lock replacement charge.
Follow these steps:
- Knock on your door to see if any of your suitemates or roommates are home.
- Between Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.: come down to your residence hall lobby to see the Residence Hall Director (RHD).
- Every Day between 7-10 p.m.: come to your residence hall lobby to see the Resident Assistant (RA) on Duty.
- Contact Campus Safety if your RHD or RA are not present in the office or if you are locked out outside of the listed time frames (914-633-2560).