Incoming Student Room Sign Up

The May 20 Roommate Request deadline in the Housing Portal has passed, as advertised in the Housing Portal. 

• Accepted roommates: These details are for students who met the May 20 deadline and accepted each other as roommates in the Housing Portal. You have an accepted roommate if you log into the Housing Portal and see a roommate listed on the page titled "Roommate Search (Closed)." Getting into a room together is easier when you have an accepted roommate in the Housing Portal, because only one student in the roommate pair logs into the Housing Portal during Room Selection and chooses a room, then assigns both roommates to the room. Only an incoming first year or transfer student can assign both roommates to a room during Room Selection. This means that if your accepted roommate is a returning UWRF student, they can't log in and choose a room for you both during Room Selection.
• Do you have a roommate in mind, but missed the May 20 deadline? You can still get into a room with a preferred roommate during Room Selection or Room Swap by choosing the same room together. During room selection, you will want to both log in and choose a room and be in direct communication with each other to ensure that you choose the same hall and room.
• Random Roommates: If you you don't have a roommate in mind, and didn't accept a roommate in the Housing Portal, no worries! When you choose a room, you can see the profiles of students who have empty beds in their room before you choose a room. Or you can choose a room with two empty beds and let a random roommate choose the empty bed in your room. Later, you can change rooms during the Room Swap phase of Room Selection if you aren't a match with your roommate.

Early Bird Housing Contract Deadline (June 4, noon): Incoming first year and transfer students who have a signed a housing and meal plan contract by Wednesday, June 4, at noon, will be sent an email on June 5 with details about the earliest date and time that they may sign up for a room during the Room Selection start dates of June 11 and 12.

• Room selection dates and times are determined by when the student signed their housing contract. Students with earlier signed contracts receive earlier room selection dates and times.

Early Bird Room Selection for incoming first year and transfer students starts between 5-8 p.m. each day in the Housing Portal June 11-12. This room selection phase is only for students who signed their housing contracts by the Early Bird deadline of noon on June 4. In the email they receive, Early Bird students will have a specific start date and time when they can log in and choose a room - this information will also be available for them in the Housing Portal prior to their Room Selection date.

• Room Selection step-by-step instructions

Room selection available for any incoming new and transfer students in the Housing Portal, including those who signed housing contracts after noon on June 4.

• Room Selection Step-by-step Instructions (Coming soon!)
• Note: For students who have a specific roommate in mind, Early Bird room selection is over and rooms that have two empty beds are now primarily in Crabtree and Johnson Halls.
• Room Swap Strategy: You and your roommate can assign yourselves to different rooms in the same hall (if there are no rooms available with two empty beds), then talk with your random roommates to see if they would be willing to swap rooms so that you can be with your desired roommate. Please be diplomatic as they are not required to move rooms.

Room swap available for all incoming new and transfer students in the Housing Portal, for students seeking to change their hall, room and/or roommate. Only incoming students who have a room may use Room Swap. Students may room swap as many times as they would like

• Room Swap Step-by-step Instructions (Coming soon!)

Late Room Selection and Room Swap (Pending)

• If empty rooms are still available after July 9, then a late Room Selection and Room Swap phase may be opened. Details will be provided here if this happens.

For students who have a signed contract to live on campus but have not yet chosen a room: As empty beds become available, Residence Life will hand-assign those students to a room with a roommate of similar age and year in school, then will email those students with details to their UWRF email address. 

• We STRONGLY ENCOURAGE students to choose a room and roommate on one of the above room selection dates, rather than wait for Residence Life to hand assign them to a room. 

• Hall Move In begins for incoming first year and transfer students on Friday, Aug. 29. Welcome activities and meal plans begin on this date as well.
• Move In for returning UWRF students begins Saturday, Aug. 30.