About Fall Housing

House Transfer Process
Established in 2016, Dartmouth's House Communities are designed to build strong residential communities, foster intellectual engagement, and support housing continuity within the D-Plan.

While students are generally housed within their House Community, Residential Life has expanded options in recent years to allow greater flexibility. These include the All-House Room Draw and, new this year, the House Transfer process, which allows students to form a group with friends from different House Communities and be assigned to the same Community.  Participation in this opportunity is allowed once during a student's undergraduate program, specific House preferences are not permitted and all decisions are final

The House Transfer process provides the option:

• As an individual: to get a fresh start in a different House with the priority being something different and not a particular location.
• As a group: to join with a friend or friends from other Houses with the priority being that you are part of the same House Community.

Undergraduate Housing will determine where your group can be placed based on available space.  

Apartment Room Draw
The new apartments in Russo Hall, as well as apartments at North Park, Maxwell, and the Channing Cox location, will be included in an online selection process open to seniors and juniors only. This change reflects feedback from seniors about limited apartment availability when sophomores were included in roommate groups.

Renovated Fayerweathers Opens!

Following a two-year renovation and expansion, the Fayerweathers residence halls will open this summer.  It is part of South House and two floors will be available through South House Room Draw.

Summit on Juniper Housing Update
At the close of spring term, Buildings 2 and 3 at Summit on Juniper will no longer be part of Dartmouth's undergraduate housing offerings. Students eligible to live in private off-campus housing who are interested in leasing directly with Summit on Juniper should contact Summit staff for more information.

• Sophomore Guarantee: Sophomores who submit the fall application agreement by April 14 at 2pm (ET) are guaranteed housing either through one of the fall assignment processes, or the fall housing waitlist.  Sophomore rooms will be held in the residence halls of each House Community to reduce the number of sophomores on the waitlist.
• Room Selection Numbers: These are created for each term's assignment process based on class year. They are assigned after the deadline for each term's process. This change was made last year in response to student feedback, creating the opportunity for reassigned numbers each term, rather than a fixed number for the entire academic year. For the fall, the room selection number is used for House Community and All-House Room Draws.
• Living Learning Community & Housing Accommodation deadlines are March 10th. This provides the needed time for advisors to review LLC applications and for the Student Accessibility Services and the Chaplains time to work with students requesting housing accommodations. LLC decisions and assignments will be confirmed by the end of March so those not accepted have time to make any needed updates to their application and participate in another process.
• Fall Housing Waitlist: Dartmouth typically has a housing waitlist for the fall term.  Students on the housing waitlist will be assigned over the summer, based on spaces that open in residence halls, Apartments and Living Learning Communities.

All students participating in Fall Room Draw must register by the application deadline for the process they are participating in for fall term.

Eligibility Criteria:

• Enrolled for fall term (D-Plan = R).
• Does not already have a fall housing assignment.

Important Notes:

• Rising juniors and seniors who apply but don't meet the criteria will be notified within the application that you are not eligible.
• Rising juniors and seniors with D-Plan petitions pending should complete the application and then must email residential.life@dartmouth.edu to participate in fall housing processes.
• Rising sophomores, whose D-Plans are pending, will be allowed to go through Room Draw, with their assignment confirmation dependent upon their D-Plan becoming an "R" for the fall.
• Students in their 5th year of the Thayer BE program are not eligible for undergraduate housing.

The Fall housing processes use the DartHub, Housing StarPortal. Application and selection are all part of the same application, but selection pages become available based on date. 

Your assignment is binding – if you select a room, you cannot undo your selected housing and try for a different room. Room cancellations received after a room is selected until July 22 are subject to a $250 cancellation fee. After July 22 the fee increases to $500. The fee is automatically waived if you are accepted to an off-campus program or transfer/exchange term after Room Draw.

College residence policies and terms become legally binding when either you receive your room assignment notification or you are notified verbally of your assignment by a Residential Life official, unless you cancel the assignment in writing.