Room Selection — Returning Students

Specify the type of housing (room type) you are applying for:

• Single room
• Two-person room (Doubles)
• Two-person room (Doubles) - Open Gender
• Three-person room (Triple)
• Three-person room (Triple) - Open Gender
• Four-person room (Apt, Suite, Quads)
• Assign my space for me

Make your plan!

Review all the housing options for your roommate groups (four, three, or two-person units). Be realistic in your planning. Four-person apartments will likely be selected by four rising seniors. Those who will be sophomores and juniors next year should research their options for single, double, or triple rooms.

Note to rising seniors: Groups that include rising juniors or sophomores will be assigned later time slots than groups of all rising seniors and will most likely not be able to select an apartment space.

Those unable to select a space during selection should resubmit their Housing Form to submit for single selection to be added to that process by 8 a.m. on Thursday, March 12, or re-group for doubles selection by 8 a.m. on Monday, March 16.

There is time built into the room selection process to allow for re-matching if there are no longer units available that match your grouping by the time of your first scheduled time slot.

• Time slots are assigned based on class year (year in residence) and then by an application received timestamp, averaged between your roommate pair/group.
• Your roommate group/pairing will be assigned a time slot (posted to the housing portal) at least one day before the room selection for the type of housing that you applied for.
• At your allotted date and time, you (or any one of your paired roommates/roommate group) can select and confirm a housing selection for your group.
• Every two minutes, the next time slot will open.
• You must fill the entire room/apartment with a fully mutually-matched roommate group at this time.
• Groups that do not meet the required group size will not be able to select spaces they cannot fully fill. For example, three matched roommates cannot select a four-person unit.

• Housing accommodation requests are due January 1.
• ILS House applications are due January 1. Watch your email for a decision by mid-February.
• Crossroads Community (International Center) applications are due January 1, 2026. Watch your email for a decision by February 10, 2026.
• Swedish House applications are due January 1, 2026. Watch your email for a decision by mid-February.
• Off-campus housing applications are due January 1, 2026.

Any student who does not meet a qualifier for off-campus release is requesting to be added to the wait list. 

The wait list for off-campus housing will only be activated if all on-campus housing is filled—plan on being a campus resident. 

You must also still complete the Housing Agreement and room selection processes via the housing portal. Failure to participate in room selection process means that housing will be assigned to you. 

Signing a lease is NOT a qualifier for off-campus housing. If you are not approved for off-campus release, you will be assigned a room and be responsible for the cost of residential housing/meal plan requirements.

Away Fall Semester

• Those who will be away for the upcoming fall semester should not roommate match or select a room during Room Selection (or you will be charged for that housing!).
• Instead, students who are away from campus for the fall will be manually placed in housing for the upcoming spring at the end of the fall semester.
• Housing and Residence Life works with each student on a housing placement from anticipated openings.
• Those requesting to be released from campus for student teaching or an off-campus internship in the fall should apply/notify via the Off-Campus Housing Application (requests will be verified with the appropriate departments).
• If you have questions about study away, student teaching, internships, or housing, please contact us at housing [at] gustavus.edu (housing[at]gustavus[dot]edu)

Away Spring Semester

• Students who anticipate being away from campus for spring should proceed with Room Selection for the upcoming fall, and notify their roommate(s) that there will be an open space for spring that we will work with the remaining residents to fill.
• Spring Study Away students check out of housing at the end of the fall semester and are not billed for Gustavus housing for spring.
• Those who will be studying abroad or on off-campus college programs in the spring of the following academic year (including student teaching or having an internship away from St. Peter) must participate in room selection for the fall, when they will be on campus. 

Those students who meet a qualifier to live off-campus upon their return to Gustavus must participate in the off-campus application process.

Placements are made manually over the summer as new student arrivals are confirmed (August). 
 

Process for getting a roommate who is an international student or transfer student 

• Select the 'Assign my Space for me' option when completing your housing agreement.
• Submit a wait-list request to rank your building preferences.
   

Current Transfer students 

Room Selection time slots are assigned based on class year as year in residence in campus housing. For returning transfer students—we will look at your class year at the time you transferred to Gustavus to adjust your campus class year accordingly. Students who transfer to Gustavus for the second semester of their first year will be considered rising sophomores for the purposes of room selection class year.