Applications and Room Selection for Stevenson 2014-15

Applications and Room Selection for 2014-15 for Continuing Students at Stevenson College

The first step, and possibly the most important, for participating in room selection is to apply for housing during the Priority Housing Application Period, which starts at 9 am on April 14, 2014 and continues until 11:59 pm, Monday, April 21, 2014. All applicants must apply online at student housing online to participate in room selection. In addition, when filling out your online application you will need to commit to your facility of choice; most of the room selection process for Stevenson College will be open only to those who applied for housing at Stevenson. You can apply to only one housing unit when you are applying. For the apartments at Stevenson and Cowell this year, an applicaiton at either Stevenson or Cowell are equally valid. 

As a continuing student, you will have the opportunity to choose exactly where and with whom you will live, within the available options and your priority standing. There are multiple opportunities to select your space during the room selection week, please take a look at your options and the processes here.
There are some important deadlines that need to be met, and early planning is invaluable.

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Important Dates

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  Important dates for Fall 2014 room selection

  Information Session Wednesday, March 12 at 7pm in the Stevenson Event Center

  Priority Housing Application Period - April 14-21

  Early Group Declaration Forms Available - Tuesday, April 22

  Early Group Declaration Forms Due - Wednesday, April 30

  Early Group Eligibility and Assigned Time Email Notification - Monday, May 12

  Online Room Selection Invitation Email for Community Room Online Room Selection (access code and log in time)- Thursday, May 15

  Early Group Selection (Neighborhood Groups or Apartments)- Monday, May 19

  Community Room Selection - Tuesday and Wednesday, May 20-21

  All-Campus Supplemental Room Selection - Thursday, May 22

  Beginning May 23 and continuing through the summer: Housing coordinators assign available spaces

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The Room Selection Process

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  How Room Selection Works
  Room selection is the process by which continuing students choose where they want to live for the next academic year (2014-2015). There are 4 opportunities to choose your room during room selection.
   

  Early Group Selection: This option is for groups who wish to live together.

  Neighborhood Groups-

  As a group, choose a set of rooms in the residence halls- from as few as 2 rooms together up to a whole floor or wing. Your group must include a minimum of three applicants, and may consist of students from your college and/or other colleges who applied at Stevenson during the Priority Housing Application Period. Continuing students living in the residence halls get the Rate Saver lock on the 2013-14 room and meal plan rate for 2014-15.

  Apartment Groups-

  All colleges set aside some apartments exclusively for full apartment households. Full apartment groups may apply to participate in Early Group Selection by filing a Declaration Form by April 30. The forms will be available starting April 22 in the Housing and Res Life Office. All of the Cowell and Stevenson Apartments will be offered exclusively to groups this year, with none held aside for online room selection. Groups will be restricted to only Cowell and Stevenson Affiliates.

  Declaration forms for Neighborhood and Apartment groups are available in the Cowell and Stevenson Student life Office starting Tuesday, April 22, and due Wednesday, April 30.

  Community Room Selection:On-line selection of individual rooms at Stevenson. You will be issued a log-in time where you will be able to log on and choose a room in either the Stevenson residence halls or apartments, securing a space for you and a roommate from the available spaces. A lottery is used within the different points brackets to determine who gets the earliest log in time.

  All-campus Supplemental: On-line selection of individual rooms from those remaining after Community Room Selection. Students who were invited but did not select a space during the Community Room Selection process will be eligible to select from any remaining spaces at other communities, either individually or as part of a group. Spaces will be limited to those not selected during Community Room Selection.

  Beginning May 23 and continuing through the summer, housing coordinators assign available spaces. While some students select their own housing, many others are assigned housing by their Housing Coordinator. Whether you were not invited to participate in room selection or you decided not to choose one of the spaces available, rest assured your application will remain active and you will be assigned housing as soon as a space matching your preference(s) becomes available.

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Priority Point System and the Lottery

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  Priority Point System
  Priority for the room selection process, both the pre-selection and the on-line room selection parts, is determined by the following priority system. This same system is used for all of the campus facilities, including the different colleges, the University Town Center, and the Village.

  
  Priority Points

  Year of Entry *	Priority Points					College Affiliation**	Priority Points
  2010 or 2011	4					Affiliate	4
  2012	3					Non-Affiliate	1
  2013	2

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  Additional points will be assigned to transfer students to place them in their appropriate class level.

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  College affiliation is applicable only for room selection at the 10 colleges. College affiliation points will not be awarded to applicants to The Village, University Town Center. Priority at these communities is based solely on year of entry. Student leaders will each be granted 1 extra priority point. Student leader positions are defined as: -Orientation Leader -College Student Government Affiliate -College student employees whose employment requires them to work evenings/late nights at their college of residence (This does not apply to college student employees who live in one community but work in a different community) Cowell students will be given the same points as Stevenson affiliates when considered for placement in the Stevenson apartments

  Lottery
  To determine the priority order for Community Room Selection, we gather the participants in groups by their priority points and use a random number generator to determine the order within the group. A separate lottery is run for each group, then the groups are put together in descending order to make our full priority order list. As an example, if you have 7 points, you will be choosing your space before anyone with 6 points or less, and after anyone with 8 points, but within your group you can be anywhere due to the lottery.

  For Neighborhood groups priority will be given based on the collective points of all group members.

  For Apartment groups priority will be given based on the collective points of all household members.

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Available Spaces

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  Stevenson Available Rooms

  There are many different options for housing at Stevenson. Continuing students can live in either the residence halls or the apartments, at Cowell or at Stevenson.

  For continuing students who choose to live in the residence halls, we offer single rooms, double rooms, triple rooms, large triple rooms, and quad rooms. One of the Stevenson residence halls- House 7- is designated as a “continuing student house”, and all rooms in that house are available for neighborhood groups or for individual room selection. In addition, we make available various rooms in other houses that mix both continuing and frosh students.

  Stevenson and Cowell apartments house from 2 to 8 students; examples of the various apartment setups include:

  2-Person Apartment: 2 Students per Apartment, 1 Double Room (7)

  2-Person Apartment Suite (no range/ stove): 2 Students per Apartment, 1 Double Room (4)

  3-Person Apartment: 3 Students per Apartment, 1 Double Room, 1 Single Room (1)

  4-Person Apartment Suite (no range/ stove): 4 Students per Apartment, 1 Double Room, 1 Small Double Room (1)

  4-Person Apartment: 4 Students per Apartment, 1 Triple, 1 Single (1)

  5-Person Apartment: 5 Students per Apartment, 1 Small Double, 1 Triple (1)

  5-Person Apartment: 5 Students per Apartment, 1 Double, 1 Triple (2)

  6-Person Apartment: 6 Students per Apartment, 1 Triple, 3 Singles (20)

  7-Person Apartment: 7 Students per Apartment, 1 Quad, 3 Singles (5)

  8-Person Apartment: 8 Students per Apartment, 2 Triples, 2 Singles (2)

  Virtual tours of the various rooms are available here.