Fall Housing Process

Room Selection Processes

Selecting a room for the fall semester takes place during the spring term each year. Each spring, we run the following processes:

• Academic and Special Interest Houses: Students interested in engaging in community building around a specific theme, or academic interest can apply to live in an interest house.
• Social Houses: Students who are members of social houses can choose to live in their respective houses.
• Off Campus Lottery: Students with 3 semesters or less until graduation can participate in a lottery process for a chance to be released off campus.
• Room Selection Process: Students who do not receive housing in one of these processes will participate in the general room selection process to select from available spaces on campus in suites, small houses, singles, doubles, and triples.
• Summer Draw Process: The final process for fall students still selecting a space on campus.

Housing Accommodations and Considerations

ResLife works in collaboration with other offices on campus to ensure that students have housing that meets their needs. For students seeking support around housing needs, please contact the applicable office below:

• Disability Resource Center helps with housing accommodations for a medical or mental health related need.
• Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life assists with religious requests.
• Civil Rights and Title IX Office works with questions related to Civil Rights and Title IX.

Students with accommodations or considerations have the choice of being assigned a space ahead of time, or participating in the selection processes. Students who choose to participate in the room selection process should only select a space in the process if it meets their needs as we cannot make changes once a space is selected. 

Students seeking support from these offices for fall housing should reach out before room selection processes. Students who reach out after processes have begun will be added to a waitlist and needs will be met as available.

Priority by Class Year

Students participate in room selection based on their term of matriculation (their first term at Middlebury); this allows students to continue to participate with their peer groups. Transfers participate based on their class year.

• Senior Status = Matriculated on or before the 2023 spring term
• Junior Status = Matriculated on or before the 2024 spring term
• Sophomore Status = Matriculated on or before the 2025 spring term

Please check your information on Banner Web and contact the Office of the Registrar if you feel your information is incorrect.

Process Overview

Students must complete a housing application in the Housing Portal by the deadline to participate in the room selection process. When you complete your application has no impact on your time slot, as time slots are randomly generated within class year. Students who do not complete an application will be added to the Summer Draw Process and are not eligible to participate in the spring processes. 

The specific process students participate in is determined based on their class year.

• Sophomores participate in the Sophomore Room Selection Process.
• Junior and Seniors participate in the Junior/Senior Room Selection process.
  • Juniors and Seniors can form roommate groups within their class year or can form mixed groups of Juniors and Seniors. Mixed groups will go after all Senior groups and before all Junior groups.
• Seniors can form a group of 8 to participate in the 8-Person Lottery, which is a process specifically for properties that house 8 people including the Townhouses and 107 Shannon Street.

Students have the option to go through the room selection process individually or as part of a roommate group. Roommate groups can be formed with up to eight (8) people per group, but they must be in the process you are participating in (meaning Sophomores cannot match with Juniors or Seniors and vice versa).

Prior to the process, students will receive a randomly generated time slot within their class year group. Students who enter the process as a group will receive one time slot for their group to select. Students can log into the Housing Portal at any time during the room selection process to see what space is available, and will be able to select space when their time slot arrives.

Once a space is selected, students will receive a confirmation email and be able to see their selection in the Housing Portal. 

Sophomore Housing Options

Sophomore students will select from available spaces in Sophomore housing. This includes a variety of room types including suites, singles, doubles, and limited triples.

Sophomore housing includes the following halls:

• Coffrin
• Gifford
• Hadley
• Pearsons
• Milliken

Junior/Senior Housing Options

Junior and Senior students have the opportunity to live in small houses, townhouses, suites, and traditional style rooms during the room selection process.

Small Houses for Groups to Select:

• 248 College Street- Group of 3
• 99 Adirondack- Group of 5
• Homer Harris House- Group of 5
• Turner House- Group of 6
• 107 Shannon Street- Group of 8

Small Houses/Suites for Individuals & Pairs to Select:

• 20 Old Chapel Road- 9 Spaces (7 Singles and 1 Double)
• 118 South Main Street- 11 Spaces (5 Singles and 3 Doubles)
• Adirondack House- 37 Spaces (23 Singles and 7 Doubles)
• Homestead- (15 Singles)
• Jewett- (12 Singles)
• Munford- 31 Spaces (25 Singles and 3 Doubles)

Halls Available:

• Atwater A and B
• Forest (Forest West for Fall and Winter Only)
• Kelly
• LaForce
• Lang
• Le Château
• Painter
• Ridgeline View Suites
• Ross Tower
• Starr
• Townhouses
• Voter Hall

Not Here for Fall?

Students returning for J-term or Spring semester will go through the Mid-Year Returning Student Housing Process. Students who will not be on campus for Fall semester are not eligible to participate in the Fall room selection processes.