Apartment Housing Selection Process
2024-2025 Selection Information is below
The apartment housing selection process is for any eligible student who is hoping to live in one of our on-campus apartments. Skidmore College has two apartment villages offering housing in three-, four- and five-person apartments. Each fully furnished apartment has an appropriately equipped kitchen, common space and shared bathroom facilities. Students living in the apartments are not required to be on a meal plan, but may choose from various options available.
The apartment selection will be entirely online and managed through your Residential Life Housing Portal. Apartment Selection can be accessed from anywhere with a desktop or laptop computer and internet connection. We will also be available during selection, and students are welcome to call or email us for assistance.
OUTLINE | STEPS | ELIGIBILITY | IMPORTANT INFO | QUESTIONS
OUTLINE
The housing application is currently available and will close on March 8, 2024 at 11:59pm EST.
Lottery numbers will be issued to all students who submitted an on-campus housing applications. These will be visible in your Housing Portal by March 18, 2024. Selection timeslots will be released no later than 24 hours before each stage of selection.
| Step | Date |
|---|---|
| Housing applications available | February 14, 2024 |
| Housing applications due | March 8, 2024 |
| Timeslots for three-person apartment selection released | By March 25, 2024 |
| Three-person apartment selection | March 26, 2024 |
| Regroups for four-person apartment selection | March 26-27, 2024 |
| Timeslots for four-person apartment selection released | April 1, 2024 |
| Four-person apartment selection | April 2-4, 2024 |
| Regroups for five-person apartment selection | April 5-8, 2024 |
| Timeslots for five-person apartment selection released | April 11, 2024 |
| Five-person apartment selection | April 12, 2024 |
**Please note that slight changes to the timeline may occur depending on the number of interested groups and the time required.**
STEPS TO the PROCESS
Apartment housing selection for the 2024-2025 academic year contains the following steps.
Apply for housing
- All students, whether they are living on campus or not, must submit a housing application
by March 8, 2024
- Students may only be part of one active group at a time. For example, a student cannot be part of 2 groups seeking apartments.
Create an apartment group
- One student should serve as a group leader and create the apartment group in their housing application.
- They create the group by searching for and inviting other students who have completed the on-campus housing application into their group.
- Groups can apply as three-, four-, or five-person apartment groups.
- Students may only be part of one active group at a time. For example, a student cannot be part of 2 groups seeking apartments.
- Rising sophomore (2027) students are not permitted to live in the apartments, any applications with rising sophomores will be excluded from apartment selection.
- The application is viewable after completion and each member will be able to see who has/not 'joined' the group
Apartment selection
- All eligible groups will receive a selection time from the Office of Residential Life through their Housing Portal.
- Groups would select from available apartments during this period. Once available apartments are taken, groups will be allowed to regroup for another apartment size if they wish, until all apartments are selected.
Residence Hall Room Selection
- Any students that did not receive an apartment can regroup for available residence hall doubles, or stay out of a group to select available residence hall singles.
ELIGIBILITY
To be eligible for your apartment selection time, every group member must meet the following requirements:
- Complete an on-campus housing application (each group member must complete)
- Be a rising Junior (2026) or Senior (2025)
- Complete any outstanding student conduct sanctions
- Pay any outstanding charges on student account
- Not be registered to study abroad in the fall semester (including the Dartmouth, and other domestic programs)
Rising Sophomore students (Class of 2027) are not eligible to apply for apartment housing. Any applications with rising sophomores will be excluded from apartment selection.
GENERAL IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND TERMS
Apartment Applications
Apartment applications are the first part of the apartment selection process. Read More
Group Average
Our housing processes prioritize by class year, then lottery number. To do so, we use class year rank.
Read MoreStudents' class year rank correlates to their graduation year (not GPA).
- Class of 2025 - 4.0
- Class of 2026 - 3.0
- Class of 2027 - 2.0
In order to ensure that preference is given to the class year rank of all students involved in an apartment group, we average the class year rank of every member. This provides a group with a Group Average.
Ex. A group of 2 Rising Juniors (2026) and 2 Rising Seniors (2025) would have a Group Average of 3.5 (4+4+3+3/4 = 3.5).
Selection times
Selection times are the time that a group will be permitted to select housing. Groups will not be permitted to select prior to their selection time. Additionally, if a student/group is late for their online selection time, others will be allowed to enter the online system and begin selecting. This means that entering selection late may impact the apartment available to you. Read More
Selection times are decided by ordering all groups that submit apartment applications by their class average and then their best lottery number. Groups with the highest (furthest from zero) class average and the lowest (closest to zero) lottery number select first.
Regrouping
Regrouping is designed for students that find themselves unable to select at their initial apartment selection time (i.e. group ineligibility, late or invalid application, no more apartments of original desired size). This process will permit these students to create a new group to select an apartment. Read More
Regrouping will occur twice: once after the conclusion of selection for three-person apartment and again after the conclusion of selection for four-person apartments. See the dates above for more details.
Adding and dropping group members
Students may make changes to their Apartment Application online prior to the deadline; however, to do so they will need to Cancel their application and Submit a new one. After the initial deadline, students wishing to change their group will need to complete a Regroup application (see the explanation above) and will only be eligible for a regroup selection time according to their group average.
Apartment Availability
There are a finite number of apartments on campus available to student housing. There will be no more than the following number of apartments by size: Read More
- three-person apartments: 26 apartments*
- four-person apartments: 160 apartments*
- five-person apartments: 22 apartments*
*Not all apartments of these types may be open during selection. Actual numbers will vary.
Once all apartments of any given type are selected, the applications of all groups of those sizes will become invalid. There may be an opportunity to regroup.
For more information on our apartments, please see the following:
COMMON QUESTIONS
Unfortunately this is not a question to which we can give a definitive answer. Many factors play into whether or not a student will get an apartment (group size, group class average, member eligibility, apartment availability, what other groups select, etc.). As a result, it is very difficult to tell any group whether or not they will get what they are looking for.
Our recommendation to students for whom getting an apartment is the top priority is to look at numbers of apartments available and consider their group makeup to give them the best odds of getting a space.
If you are not free at your selection time, any other group member can select. You could also assign a proxy to choose your apartment for you. This can be any other student.
With the group organization of apartment selection, finding a proxy is simple:
- If any group members are available to select, they can select. No other proxy will need to be assigned.
- If no group members are available to select, a group only needs to identify one proxy
for selection. This person should be the assigned proxy via the Housing Management
System. This person will then serve as the proxy for the entire group.
- If a group needs to change their proxy they can do so at any time during the process via the Housing Management System.
No. Once you select an on-campus space, apartment or residence hall, you are expected to live on campus for the entire 2024-25 academic year or until such time as you fall below full-time status (12 credits), take a leave, go abroad, withdraw or graduate.
If you are considering living off-campus, you will need to make that decision before selecting an on-campus apartment.
Your group will be notified if the group is ineligible for any reason. We cannot share who in the group is ineligible due to privacy, but we will confirm your eligibility with you.
If your group is ineligible by 3 p.m., the day before selection, you will not be able to participate. You will need to either form a new group or make sure your group member who was not eligible clears up the issue and reapply for the regroup process.
