Off-Campus Housing Selection Process
Updated Information will be available at a later date.
The Off-Campus Housing Selection process allows students to choose to live off campus in the local Saratoga Springs community for the upcoming academic year. Saratoga Springs has a large number of rental properties that can provide students opportunities to experience life outside the Skidmore College campus.
Students interested in exploring Skidmore's off-campus option should read the information below pertaining to this selection process.
DATES | PROCESS | ELIGIBILITY | IMPORTANT INFO | QUESTIONS
DATES
To participate in Off Campus Selection, students must complete an Off Campus Application.
Off Campus Selection will occur in two phases this year. Off Campus Selection I will be open to only Rising Seniors (2022) and Juniors (2023). The application for Selection I will be due on May 20th by 4:00 PM EST. Selection I will occur May 24 - May 28.
Off Campus Selection II will occur after apartment selection and will be available to Rising Seniors (2022), Juniors (2023) and Sophmores (2024). The Off Campus Application for Selection II will be due June 17 by 4:00 PM EST. Off Campus Selection II will occur June 14 - June 17 for Juniors and Seniors. Sophomore students will be able to select June 18 - June 21.
Off- Campus Selection I |
Off-Campus Selection II |
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| Eligibility | Classes of 2022 and 2023 | Classes of 2022, 2023, and 2024 |
| Application Available | April 26th by 4:30 PM EST | May 24th by 4:30 PM EST |
| Application Due | May 20th by 4:00 PM EST | June 17th by 4:00 PM EST |
| Selection Available | May 24 - 28; 9:00AM - 4:00PM EST |
Classes of 2022 & 2023: June 14 - 17; 9:00AM - 4:00PM EST Class of 2024: June 18 - 21; 9:00AM - 4:00PM EST |
PROCESS
The off-campus housing process has four required steps that must be completed in order.
All parts of this process will occur exclusively online. They will all be available on the Skidmore College Housing Management System.
For assistance navigating any of the applications or selection process, please visit our Housing How-To's page.
- Submission/updating of emergency contact and evacuation location information
- Most students have likely completed this step in past years. Students are requested to check this information and make any necessary changes.
2021-22 off-campus housing application
- The off-campus housing application is required of all students applying to live off campus. It will allow them to provide personal information.
- The application serves as the key for Housing Selection. Students cannot select off campus selection until the application is complete.
Off-campus housing selection
- Off-campus housing selection is where students will confirm their selection of off-campus housing. Students have not completed this process until they complete this step.
- Once you complete this step, you are officially housed off-campus for the entire 2021-22 academic year.
Off-campus address submission form
- Students who successfully select Off-Campus Local housing are required to submit this form by August 2nd, 2021.
- Students will use this form to submit their off campus address and landlord information. This form only becomes available after they are housed off campus.
ELIGIBILITY
- Rising Juniors (2023) and Seniors (2022) will be eligible for off campus selection.
- Rising Sophomores (2024) will be eligible for the second phase of off-campus selection.
- For the 2021 - 2022 academic year, students who will be 21 years of age by September
8, 2021 will be eligible to complete an appeal to live off campus, regardless of class
year.
- This is a change that will be published in August's updated 2021 - 2022 Residential Life Handbook. To read more about the appeal process and eligibility, please reference the 2020 - 2021 Residential Life Handbook
important information
Once you are off campus, you are off campus
If you complete this process, you will be expected to live off campus for the entirety of the 2021-22 academic year. It will be your responsibility to work out issues with your housemates as well as with landlords. The college will not provide housing on campus.
Under extreme situations (e.g., where apartments become unsafe and/or unliveable), the Office of Residential Life may work with students to find a space on campus, but this will be only on a space-available basis, and no guarantees can be made that space will be available at the time students request it.
Off-Campus Local Housing is an Individual Process
Unlike the Apartment selection process, students select off-campus local housing as individuals, not as a group. For rising Sophomores, please keep this in mind if you are looking to rent a local apartment with other rising Sophomores. We recommend that no leases are signed until you have successfully selected your housing.
Return Dates & Leases
Students with an Off-Campus lease have no on-campus housing for any portion of the year. If they need to return to campus earlier than their lease date, it is their responsibility to find housing or negotiate with their landlord. We will not have available housing to offer students in this situation.
Spring semester leaves and filling off-campus vacancies
If you intend to study abroad for the spring semester, we strongly encourage you to think about what this will mean in regard to an off-campus lease before you choose to live off campus.
Check ahead of time to see if the landlord will allow you out of the lease at the end of the fall term. This will be the best option when it comes to your lease.
If the landlord will not let you out of the lease, and subletting is your only option; plan ahead of time or consider looking elsewhere.
If you still choose to sign a lease in this situation, plan ahead for other students living off campus or students returning from leave or abroad to take your lease in the spring. This will make filling the spaces much easier.
Do not arrange with students who are living on campus for fall 2021 to sublet your space. The College will not permit students to move off campus midyear to fill your apartment.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Yes! Even if you were approved to live off campus last year, you need to complete the 2021-22 off-campus housing application, off campus housing selection, and submit your address.
Yes! You should never sign a lease prior to working out your housing plans with our office, particularly if you are not eligible for off campus housing. Participating in off campus selection is what makes your housing official with the College.
Eligible students who are currently on a spring 2021 leave will need to complete the off-campus housing selection process to live off campus.
If you plan to study abroad for the Spring 2022 semester you may still pursue off campus housing for the Fall semester.
Please be aware that students will not be permitted to go off campus mid-year to sublet your lease and ensure you have a plan with your landlord regarding the Spring.
You have two opportunities to participate in off campus housing selection and we will send multiple reminders. If you miss them, you will need to work with our office directly regarding your housing plans.
Off-campus housing selection is not a group process. Every student wishing to live off campus will need to complete all steps in this process.
