Applying for Fall Housing

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* Historically, students in this week have 100+ hours earned at FSC; Garden, Star, and Lake Morton are usually filled within the first week.

** Historically, students in this week have 90+ hours earned at FSC; apartments are usually filled within the second week.

*** Based on availability, Community Living may choose to end selection and manually assign students to remaining open bed spaces to ensure everyone has a room assignment.

• Limiting accessibility to specific residential communities.
  • Students will need to have earned a minimum number of credits, in addition to the preexisting requirements to live in Garden, Star, Lake Morton, and College-Owned Houses.
• Limiting the number of preferred roommates in Garden and Star apartments.
  • This will allow the greatest number of eligible students with appropriate time slots into more popular residential communities.
    • Off-campus communities such as Lake Hollingsworth, Lake Morton, Colony Arms will not have any changes to their preferred roommate layout.
  • Students will be limited to requesting one other student to live in the apartment.
    • Students who select more than one roommate will not see any availability for Garden and Star, even if open rooms exist.
    • In the case of a 4-person apartment layout, a student may request one roommate, with whom they will share a bathroom. A common living area divides the apartment. Other eligible students may request the other two rooms.
• General Housing Selection will take place between May and June 2025.
  • This will let students register for full-time status before the spring semester ends. Students who are not at full-time status cannot select a housing assignment. Expectations are available, with approval by the Dean of Students, for students entering their last semester at FSC.

Room visibility is based on the number of roommates you have in our selection group in relation to what is available. If you have more requested roommates than spaces that are available, your requested roommates will have to release you as a roommate. Students who made the request to a preferred roommate cannot release students.

Yes! Please log into the Portal and complete the Housing Application. The application will remain open until the end of general housing selection, but students who apply after the April 21st deadline will receive the last housing timeslot regardless of qualifications.

Yes! You can make changes to the Housing Application, but you must do so prior to the priority due date of the application to avoid any delays or issues with your housing timeslot.

Students can submit a Room Change Request Form after the conclusion of General Housing Selection.

There are a few reasons why a student is not searchable:

• The student you are requesting may not have completed the Housing Application.
  • The student will need to complete the application.
• The student may have selected that they wish to remain unsearchable.
  • The student will need to update their application to say they want to be searchable.
• The student is already assigned to a room.
  • If a student is assigned to a room, that student will need to contact Community Living to remove them from their housing assignment. There is a manual process. Processing may take a minimum of 48 business hours.
• The student already has a roommate request pending to another student.
  • Only one student should have requests out to the group.

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Your timeslot will be provided to you on May 1. Note that our times are based on Eastern Standard Time. You may select, starting at your assigned time, from any location via connection to the world-wide web. Assigned times are when selection windows open. Windows remain open throughout general housing selection.

Yes, all residential spaces are single-gendered. Students may contact Community Living if they have further questions.

Students’ and parents’ feedback indicated that students would benefit if the College were to move the housing selection window to a time that does not overlap with final exams. Separating housing selection from final exams, students said, will allow students to focus on academic preparation. Housing Selection must take place after Registration for fall classes, which happens in early April, near final exam time. Registration dates cannot be moved. So it was necessary to move Housing Selection later, after final exams.