Dear Students:
We understand that everyone is excited about room selection for the next academic year. We are very excited to have our buildings full again, and working with all of you in the residence halls. Below is important information for you to know about Housing Lottery, please read through thoroughly and carefully.
The housing contract will be available via myCU on Friday March 11th, at 8:00am.
- To receive your lottery number, you must complete your Housing Contract in myCU.
- You may access this by logging into your myCU account and selecting the housing link located at the bottom left of the main page. You will need to choose the 2022 – 2023 academic year.
Below is information that you will need to know to prepare for this years in person Housing Lottery, which will all take place in the Student Center MPRs:
- Housing Lottery Number (average group number for apartments & mixed cohort or individual number for students without roommate request & same cohort roommate requests).
- University Policies surrounding student housing.
- Clarkson University is a 4-year residential campus which means that students are required to live on campus unless granted a housing exemption on a yearly basis by the Residence Life office.
- Students entering their 5th year are not required to live on campus but can be issued a lottery number upon request. Please contact the Office of Residence Life for more information.
Students that cannot attend the lottery will be able to complete a Proxy Form which will grant permission for another student to select their housing. The student selecting their housing must have a completed copy of the Proxy Form (found on KnightLife) with them to select housing for the student not attending the lottery. The form can be found on our Residence Life KnightLife page: https://knightlife.clarkson.edu/organization/residencelife
All housing accommodation requests and renewals for the 2022-2023 academic year are to be submitted to the Office of Accessibility Services (OAS) by March 1st, 2022. You can contact the OAS office at oas@clarkson.edu for questions or additional information. You also can visit their website at https://www.clarkson.edu/accessibility-services
Housing exemption requests can be made by logging into Knightlife and completing the Housing Exemption Request form, due by March 15th, 2022. https://knightlife.clarkson.edu/organization/residencelife Please note Clarkson is a four year residential campus, and students who complete the Off-Campus Housing Exemption Form must meet one or more of the criteria to submit.
Starting March 11th you can view the residential areas layouts/locations etc.. Attached in the bottom of this email is instructions on how to view campus residential floor plans, in order to help you figure out where you may be interested in living next year. The actual maps will not be available until March 11th, but the instructions once they are available are attached below.
Apartment Style Housing:
- All students who have a group who would like to reserve an apartment will need to complete the appropriate Multiple Selection Form on Knight Life.
- All Multiple Selection Forms will open on March 11th and are due by March 27, 2022 at 4:30pm through Knight Life (https://knightlife.clarkson.edu/)
- Students will be notified on March 28th via email of their groups approval or denial. Only the primary contact of the group will be contacted and those approved will be invited to select the housing location for the group.
- MULTIPLE SELECTION: Apartment assignments will begin on March 29 at 5:00pm in the Student Center MPRs. Students may sign-up in groups of 2, 3, 4, 6 or 7, regardless of their cohort. Once the group size is decided the group must submit the “Multiple Selection Form” on Knight Life. Students may only apply for two group sizes. Placement is based on an average of the collective lottery numbers. Groups cannot be increased or decreased in size after submitting an application.
Ham/Pow Housing:
- FIRST YEAR STUDENTS: If you receive a “high lottery number”, you may be interested in the “Ham/Pow Plan” which allows you to choose a double room in Hamlin-Powers without attending the lottery; by doing so you will avoid a long wait. The rooms on the fourth floor and center core of Hamlin Powers are not available for pre-lottery selection. You may sign up for up to 6 blocks of rooms with friends, the form will be available via Knight Life on March 11.
- The Ham/Pow Plan Multiple Selection Form can be found on the Residence Life page within Knight Life (https://knightlife.clarkson.edu/).
- The Ham/Pow Plan Multiple Selection Form will be due on March 27, 2022 at 4:30pm.
- Students will select their rooms on March 29, 2022 at 6:30pm in the Student Center MPRs.
Cohort Housing Lottery:
If a student in any cohort does not participate in either process listed above then that student will use their individual Housing Lottery Number to select housing.
Student groups, who are part of the same cohort, can use the lowest number to select their housing (outside of the apartments). Students who are part of the group but not in the same cohort must wait till their cohort’s day to select housing. If the space with their selected group is still available they may request that space.
If you are planning on going on a CO-OP, abroad trip, or living in an approved off-campus theme house you should reserve a room on campus if you are not approved at the time of your housing selection night.
LOTTERY SCHEDULE 2022
All Housing Lottery events will take place in person in the Student Center Multi-Purpose rooms. It is important you only come during your time slot as described below.
March 29th, 2022 : Lottery Night #1 beginning at 5:00pm (Approved Groups Selecting Apartments (Riverside, Woodstock, Townhouses & Hamlin/Powers Plan).
Groups that qualify to select an apartment will be contacted to attend the inperson selection. The Primary Contact of the group will be the ONLY student invited to select the housing location.
April 5 : Lottery Night #2 (Individual Lottery Numbers 1- 250 at 5:00pm, 251-500 at 6:00pm, 501+ at 7:00pm)
Lottery Numbers 1-250 at 5:00pm
Lottery Numbers 251-500 at 6:00pm
Lottery Numbers 501+ at 7:00pm
April 6 : Lottery Day #3 (Individual Lottery Numbers 1000 – 1250 at 5:00pm, 1251-1500 at 6:00pm, 1501+ at 7:00pm)
Lottery Numbers 1000-1250 at 5:00pm
Lottery Numbers 1251-1500 at 6:00pm
Lottery Numbers 1501+ at 7:00pm
April 7 : Lottery Day #3 (Individual Lottery Numbers 2000 – 2250 at 5:00pm, 2251-2500 at 6:00pm, 2501+ at 7:00pm)
Roommate Matching:
If you are having trouble filling your apartment and or finding people to live with for next year, the Residence Life Office has put together a Find My Roommate form which can be found below. Based on the answers, we will email out contact information for similar responding students to hopefully help you initiate contact to find people with similar living styles or interests to you. This form will close as of noon on March 25th at noon. If you received any similar responses from students we will email them to you in the afternoon of the 25th. Please note multiple selection forms are due on March 27th.
Find my roommate form – closes 3/25 @ noon
For questions related to housing lottery you can contact your RA/HA, RD, Area Coordinator, Assistant Director or Director of Residence Life. The Office of Residence Life will also be hosting drop in tabeling sessions throughout February and March in the student center. Keep an eye out for our table to stop by and ask general questions.
~The Residence Life Team
If you have any questions please contact the Residence Life Office at (315)268-6642 or reslife@clarkson.edu