Students who want to live on campus next year must complete online application by Feb. 21
From Residence Life
Any student who wants to live anywhere on campus next year must complete an online application by Wednesday, Feb. 21.
The online application is available on the Residence Life Online Housing site, starting today through Wednesday, Feb. 21. Login using your UST username and UST password. Type your UST username in all capital letters and without the "@stthomas.edu" extension; type your case-sensitive UST password as you usually do.
Note these things you should know about the applications:
- You may complete the online application anytime from now through 4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 21.
- Anyone you would like to live with as a roommate needs to complete his or her own application online.
- Any current UST student is eligible to complete a housing application.
- Studying abroad in fall 2007?
Students planning to study abroad in fall 2007 also should complete a housing application online. Select the "2008 Spring Only-Returning Students" application period in the drop down box. Residence Life will contact you via UST e-mail in November to confirm your intent to live on campus for spring 2008 and invite you to update your building, meal plan and roommate preferences at that time.
The first 1,500 online applicants will be eligible to participate in the selection process for housing for 2007-2008. Additional applicants will be placed on a returning-student housing waitlist and will be assigned pending available space on campus after new first-year students are assigned. The last day to submit an online application is 4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2007 .
Here are the 2007-2008 room retention and selection process guidelines:
Room retention
3 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 27, through noon Wednesday, Feb. 28
Students currently living on campus who completed an online application may participate in the online room retention process to reclaim their room or apartment for next year.
- Students living on 2007-2008 First-Year Experience or First-Year Experience-Weekend Activity floors may not retain their current room (view Special Interest Floor locations on the Student Housing Options Web page).
- Students who retain their room will be able to pull in roommates to fill their room or apartment during Roommate Pull-In.
- Students who choose to retain their room will not participate in the Four-Person or Remaining Spaces selection.
Roommate Pull-In
3 p.m. Thursday, March 1, through noon Friday, March 2
Students who retained their current room may pull in roommates to fill all or some of the spaces available in their current room.
- You will need your roommates' UST ID numbers, UST usernames and meal-plan preferences.
- If a student retains and pulls in roommate(s) and then cancels housing for 2007-2008, the pulled-in roommates will lose the privilege of living in that apartment.
- This process is available only to students who retained their current room.
- Students who retained their room are not required to pull in roommates. Any vacant spaces will be available for any student to select later during Remaining Spaces Selection.
Consolidation
To make available the maximum number of vacant four-person apartments, residents who did not fill all vacancies during Roommate Pull-In will be consolidated with other Morrison or Selby residents.
Residence Life staff will attempt to contact Morrison and Selby residents with vacancies by UST e-mail between Friday, March 2, and Tuesday, March 6, to offer consolidation choices. Options and/or notification are not required for apartment consolidation; consolidated residents may be moved to a different floor or building.
Four-Person Apartment Selection – Morrison and Selby only
If you did not choose to retain your current room you may participate in Four-Person Apartment Selection.
- You will receive an e-mail on Tuesday, March 6, with your assigned time to go online and select a Morrison or Selby four-person apartment.
- You are assigned a time based on a lottery system where your name is randomly selected among other students with the same class standing.
- You must fill all open spaces in the apartment with roommates of your choice to finalize your room selection.
- You will need your roommates' UST ID numbers, UST usernames and meal-plan preferences.
- Only fully vacant four-person apartments in Morrison and Selby will be available.
- Selection times are by class year which is determined by number of credits earned:
- Current juniors and non-graduating seniors will be scheduled on Wednesday, March 7
- Current sophomores will be scheduled on Thursday, March 8
- Current freshmen will be scheduled on Friday, March 9
Remaining spaces selection
If you did not retain your current room and chose not to or were unable to finalize space in a Morrison or Selby four-person apartment, you may participate in the Remaining Spaces Selection. Available space is monitored closely by the Residence Life office and the process may close at any time when capacity is reached. Not all applicants may be able to select a space.
- You will receive an e-mail on Monday, March 12, with your assigned time to go online and select any available space.
- You are assigned a time based on a lottery system where your name is randomly selected among other students with the same class standing.
- You may select any available space in any building (except spaces reserved for incoming first-year residents).
- You may (but are not required to) fill any open spaces or rooms with roommates of your choice before finalizing your room selection. To fill open spaces, you will need your roommates' UST ID numbers, UST usernames and meal-plan preferences.
- Selection times are by class year, which is determined by number of credits earned:
- Current juniors and non-graduating seniors will be scheduled on Tuesday, March 13.
- Current sophomores wi
ll be scheduled on Wednesday, March 14. - Current freshmen will be scheduled on Thursday, March 15.
Questions? Contact Residence Life staff, (651) 962-6470, or Room 106, Koch Commons.
