Continuing SSU Student Application Process

Incoming students are assigned a residential space in June, therefore, room selection for continuing students is generally available before the incoming first-year, transfer, and graduate students are assigned. The general room selection process, in March, is a lottery-based process. General room selection is not a first-come, first-served process. Late applicants will be assigned based on when they apply.

1. Log into the Housing Portal (you will need your SSU username and password) and click on "2025/2026 Academic Year Housing."
   • Applications are open February 4-13, 2025. While the application process is NOT first come first serve, if you choose to apply on the first day, to prevent overloading the system, we need to stagger the application process. Please apply during your designated time: 

• Verdot resident @ 10:00 a.m.
• Sauvignon resident @ 11:00 a.m.
• Beaujolais resident @ 12:00 p.m.
• Tuscany resident @ 1:00 p.m.
• SSU Student living off campus 3:00 p.m.

2. Make the $300 Housing Down Payment.
   • If you are experiencing financial hardship, please email our office for an alternative payment option.
3. Complete your profile information and agree to the terms and conditions of the student housing license agreement. You will receive a confirmation that this step was completed. Students who do not complete this process will not receive a lottery number.
4. Select your preferred Living Community (optional)
   • Make sure you reviewed the Housing Options and On Campus Rates as some Living Communities are limited to certain room types.
5. Receive your lottery number on late February with instructions on when and how to self-select your Fall & Spring room assignment.
6. Create a Roommate PIN.  Students wanting to live with others will need to create a personal Roommate PIN prior to the start of the room selection process.
7. Room Selection: 3 days in early March
   • Room Selection is available only to students who have received a lottery number. The lottery number represents the date and time a student can participate in the room selection process. During this time, students will select the specific apartment and bedroom “letter” for the full academic year.

• Day 1: Room selection for a complete group that can FILL an apartment (Beaujolais 4 residents total, Sauvignon 6-7 residents total, Tuscany 6 residents total).  Choose from any available apartment.
• Day 2 & 3: Room selection for individuals or non-complete groups. Choose from any available apartment/bed spaces.
• Please note, room types and location are not guaranteed and are based on inventory.

8. Students are encouraged to select a room regardless if it is not their first choice. Students will forfeit their space and have their application canceled if they fail to select a room.

Again, we strongly encourage students to book a room, although their preferred room type or location is not available, at their lottery time. Students can participate in a room change process that will open in the following weeks.

*Need to cancel? Cancellations received by June 1 for Fall applicants will receive a 50% refund of the Housing Down Payment; no refund thereafter.  Students who complete the application process and receive a room assignment from REACH will be charged a $250 fee for not providing thirty (30) day notice, if they cancel after August 1 for Fall, or fail to check-in seven (7) days after the start of the semester.

Students will be self selecting a bedspace for the following Academic Year over a 3 day period in early March.  Please see our General Room Selection webpage for more information

Our housing system requires you to select your roommate BEFORE you choose your room. If you want to make sure you have the roommate you want, you will need to create a personalized access code in order to room with friends. In the Housing Portal, click on "2025/2026 Academic Year Housing," then "Roommate/Group Access Code" to create your personalized code. Give this to the person/group with whom you want to live. This is only available to those who have been offered a space. Students not offered a space for the General Room Selection will not be able to participate in this process. When you select your room, the first roommate in the process will pull the other roommate into the selected room using the PIN code.

Please read through our Reapply Process FAQs for all your questions about down payments, room selection, and offers.

1. Log into the Housing Portal (you will need your SSU username and password) and click on "Apply Spring 2025."

2. Make the $300 Housing Down Payment.

   • Financial Hardship? Please email our office for an alternative payment option.

3. Complete your profile information and agree to the terms and conditions of the student housing license agreement.

4. Select your preferred Living Learning Community.

   • Make sure you review the Housing Options and On Campus Rates & Installments as some Living Communities are limited to certain room types.

   • You can return to this section up until November 30 to update your preference without it affecting your priority.

5. Request a specific roommate *please contact the REACH Office for Spring only application instructions.

   • Requests must be mutual (same living area and ranked room type). Roommates must request each other. Mismatched requests will not be processed.

   • Roommate requests are viewed as a priority over room-type requests. This means we will do our best to assign you with your requested roommate first, regardless of the room type preference.

6. Room Assignments will be emailed to the student's SSU email address in early December for Spring only students. *Students must have paid the Housing Down Payment in full in order to receive a room assignment.

*Need to cancel? Cancellations received by December 15 for Spring applicants will receive a 50% refund of the Housing Down Payment; no refund thereafter. Students who complete the application process and receive a room assignment from REACH will be charged a $250 fee for not providing thirty (30) day notice, if they cancel after January 1 for Spring, or fail to check in seven (7) days after the start of the semester.