Housing Assignments & Selection

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Housing assignments at Fairfield are generally conducted by a lottery and priority system. Seniors are at the top of the priority list, followed by juniors, sophomores, and freshmen. While absolute guarantees can be difficult, it is safe to assume that seniors will get their first choice of housing. Juniors have a good chance as well. Sophomores will have a range of residence halls from which to choose, including the Ignatian Residential College in Loyola Hall, and freshmen are randomly assigned to one of the freshmen-only living areas.

Freshmen

Incoming freshmen will be asked to submit basic information about themselves. In a few cases, some freshmen may request a particular roommate or pair of roommates. While the majority of freshmen will be assigned a roommate or pair of roommates, the Office of Residence Life will attempt to accommodate specific roommate requests. Freshmen are assigned to rooms based on a variety of factors, including gender, a request for a special theme floor, and the University's mission to create as diverse a living community as possible. For example, students with unique talents (e.g. varsity athletes, scholars, etc.) will not be not housed together in one area. Housing for freshmen is available in certain portions of Dolan Hall and Gonzaga Hall. Campion Hall and Regis Hall are reserved completely for freshmen. Freshmen are housed together in order to promote class unity and identity and facilitate specific programs tailored uniquely for them.

Sophomores

Toward the end of their first year at Fairfield, students who will be sophomores will participate in a housing lottery process. At present, sophomores can live in Dolan Hall (single rooms upon request), Jogues Hall, Gonzaga Hall, Loyola Hall (Ignatian Residential College), Kostka Hall, and Claver Hall. Students select their roommate or pair of roommates and have the option of selecting rooms on a space-available basis. It may be necessary for some sophomores to be assigned housing over the summer as additional space becomes available from students finalizing study abroad plans and the final size of the freshman class is determined.

Again, sophomores are able to select their roommates and generally progress to residence halls that are either exclusively sophomore or have high concentrations of sophomores living near and with one another.

Juniors and Seniors

Seniors are assigned housing first and are able to participate in lottery processes for residence hall rooms, townhouses, apartments, or a release to off-campus housing. With the exception of students who want single rooms in Dolan Hall, seniors generally select townhouses, apartments, or off-campus residency. The off-campus lottery is completed first, generally during the fall semester, so that students who are not released, or cannot find off-campus accommodations, can make alternate plans. For the townhouse and apartment lotteries, students form groups of an appropriate size and enter the lottery as a group. Those groups can then select which individual unit they choose to live, in lottery number order.

Juniors participate in the same basic process as the seniors. However, they do so after the seniors, and their options for off campus, townhouses, and apartments may be limited based upon the selections of the senior class. For example, the University releases approximately 400 students to live off campus. Therefore, if seniors take all of these slots, juniors will not have this option in a given year. Approximately 30% of the junior class lives in one of the two suite-style residence halls - Kostka Hall and Claver Hall - or in single rooms in Dolan Hall, upon request.