Transfer Housing

Skidmore College guarantees housing to all incoming transfer students who wish to live on campus, unless otherwise noted by the college at the time of their admission. Transfer students are not required to live on campus.

Transfer students requesting on-campus housing are housed by the Office of Residential Life based on the criteria of legal sex and their responses on a transfer housing questionnaire.

Skidmore College does not provide preference to any students in the housing process due to entry status, financial status and/or personal requests. Only students approved by the college for housing accommodations related to documented disabilities and/or health concerns may be housed outside of the standard process.

Transfer housing questionnaire

All Transfer students wishing to reside on campus are required to complete an online transfer housing questionnaire. This questionnaire will be made available to students in early June prior for fall admits and in December for spring admits.

This questionnaire will ask students to respond to a number of questions that will be used to determine their housing assignment. This will include questions regarding lifestyle and community preferences. 

Other information collected by this form includes a student’s cellphone number and confirmation of knowledge and acceptance to Skidmore College Housing Policies.

On-campus decline form

Transfer students who do not wish to live on campus may decline the option by completing the on-campus decline form. This form will be made available at the same time as the transfer housing questionnaire and will be found in the same location.

In this form, students will indicate they are declining on-Campus housing, provide an address they will be residing off campus, provide their landlord’s contact information and submit their cellphone number for college records.

Room and building placement

All transfer students are housed throughout Skidmore College’s residential system where space permits, in apartment, double, single and triple rooms. Preference for apartment and single rooms will be granted based of a student’s class standing and their age at time of admission.

Due to space limitations, requests for or against specific housing type outside of the housing accommodations process will not be considered.

Roommates

Transfer student roommate parings are made based on a student’s legal sex and responses to the transfer housing questionnaire. Students are not able to request specific roommates.

Occasionally transfer students will be paired with current students who do not have a roommate. In each case, the pairing is random.

Housing assignment notification

Fall admit transfer students will receive their housing assignments via their Skidmore email. Assignments will typically be released during the third or fourth week of July. 

Spring admit transfer students will receive their housing assignments via their Skidmore email in early January, no less than one week prior to their arrival.

When applicable, assignment emails will contain a student’s housing assignment as well as the name and email address of their roommates. Many assignment letters will also contain the cellphone number and home address of a student’s roommates, though students have the ability to restrict this information via the transfer housing questionnaire resulting it this not being present in all letters.