Residence Life

Room Selection Information for Fall 2012

 Important Dates for Room Selection 2012:

February

 2 - Room selection info session, 7pm, Barker 1st floor lounge
13 - Carver Cultural Center applications due
15 - Room selection info session, 7pm, Barker 1st floor lounge 
16 - Room selection info session, 7pm, Buxton Lounge
15 and 16 - Buxton/Picken/Worth Open House, 8:00p
20 - Lottery numbers posted at Hopper Gym and at 711 N D St (temp offices of Res Life and Security)
27 - 2- and 3-person apt, squatting, single, and Picken triple and floor-draw applications due.  Completed applications can be mailed to 'Housing' at the Simpson Mailroom or dropped off at 711 N D St.

March

Feb 28-March 2 - 2 and 3-person apartment and triples selection completed via email.
16 - 2, 3, and 4-person room and 4-person apartment applications due. Completed applications can be mailed to 'Housing' at the Simpson Mailroom or dropped off at 711 N D St.
21 - Rankings posted at 711 N D St and Hopper Gym.
29 - All 2 and 4-person apartment and room selection in Great Hall, 7-10pm
***bring signed Substance-Free agreements to room selection if choosing to live in Station Square or Clinton East

 The Process
  1. If you have questions or are unfamiliar with the process, consider attending an information session (listed above).
  2. Find out your housing lottery number by going to Hopper Gym or 711 N D St.  These will be posted on Feb. 20th.
  3. Decide who you'd like to live with and turn in a housing application.  For deadlines, see above.  Applications are downloadable here.  You can turn in a housing application by dropping it off at the front desk of 711 N D St or sending through campus mail addressed to "Housing."
  4. Make sure one of your group members attends housing selection on March 29th in Great Hall to choose your housing for next year! (Note: 2/3 person apt, Picken triple, and squatting processes occur over email)

Picken Floor Draw
We are encouraging groups of 12 people (4 triples) to apply to live in the lower level and share a community restroom. Applicants for this “floor draw” do not need a theme or purpose, just a desire to live together. Applications are available at 711 N D St (temp offices of Res Life) and here. Applications must be single-sex and list an alternate person should a vacancy occur. Consider attending an Information Session (see above). Applications are due Friday, February 27.

Theme Houses
A Theme House is where a group of students apply to live together and carry out a theme and/or service projects. For 2012-2013, the college will have only the Carver Cultural Center as a theme house option. Students will be selected based on the application and group interview.  All Carver  applications are due Monday, February 13.  They can be dropped off at 711 N D St or mailed to 'Housing' at the Simpson Mailroom. 

Squatting Your Room/Apartment
Do you like where you live and want to live there again next year? Then squat your room or apartment (unless you live in Barker, Kresge, or with a Residence Life staff member). The same two people can squat a 2-person space, 2 out of 3 roommates can squat a 3-person space, and 3 out of 4 roommates can squat a 4-person space. Fill out a squatting application and turn it in to 711 N D St or mail to 'Housing' via the Simpson Mailroom. Applications are due Monday, February 27.

Planning to live off-campus?
All full-time unmarried students are required to live on campus until or unless they petition to live off-campus and are approved. Petitions are automatically granted to seniors, those living with immediate relatives, those living with a dependent child, veterans, those who have attained 23 years of age.  Permission to live off-campus for other unique circumstances are considered on a case-by-case basis by the Dean of Students. Petitions are available at Student Development. Living off-campus does lessen your "need" for financial aid reasons and could affect your Financial Aid. Please check with the Financial Aid office about how living off-campus will affect you. Those who appear to "lend" their lottery number to an application knowing they intend to live off campus will be fined a minimum of $100.

More Information:

ROOM SELECTION INFORMATION

Lottery Numbers
Each residential student will be issued a random number by Residence Life based on their class standing in years spent at the institution (adjustments will be made for transfer students). Also, students who filled out the Residence Life Experience Survey will have 50 points deducted as well.  This new number becomes the Housing Lottery number used for housing purposes. Housing numbers are posted in Hopper Gym and at 711 N D St (temp offices of Res Life) on Monday, February 20th. (Note: Lottery numbers are NOT used in the selection of Picken Floor Draw or Theme Houses.) If you are a commuter or part-time student you will not have a lottery number posted, but to request one, please email reslife@simpson.edu. Commuter and part-time students wishing to participate in the Room Selection process have 500 points added to their lottery number. Lottery numbers are non-transferable.

Room applications (all regular room applications are the same) are available at 711 N D St and online when lottery numbers get posted. Once you decide who you want to live with, fill out a Room Application and return it to 711 N D St or mail it to 'Housing' through the Simpson Mailroom. The Room Application allows you to choose a meal plan for the following year. At this point, meal plans are being restructured and you will be able to choose your preference later in the spring semester.  All residential students are required to have a meal plan. 

All Room Applications have the lottery numbers on it averaged, and then each application is ranked according to this average. After Spring Break, all the rankings will be posted on the Student Development window. 

Participation in Room Selection is only for students registered full-time for Fall 2012 - students must be registered full-time by March 29, 2012, for the application to still be valid. Participation can be denied for those not registered full-time for the upcoming semester, having outstanding accounts at the Business Office, having an incomplete, invalid or fraudulent application, having successfully petitioned, or having already been housed in a Theme House, Greek House, or Picken Floor Draw. Each person may only be on one application. Fraudulent applications include signing up for a space knowing that someone on your application intends to live off-campus or withdraw. Students going abroad Fall Semester cannot be on any application. Students not registered full-time at the end of Spring Semester may have their housing assignment revoked at any time.

2/3 person apartment/room applications
There are 13 two-person apartments and 3 three-person apartments on campus. Also, there are triples available in Picken Hall. To apply for these rooms/apartments, turn in a Room Application by Monday, February 27th, to 711 N D St or to 'Housing' through the Simpson Mailroom. This selection will be done via email by the Director, Luke Behaunek.  If your application is unsuccessful, you will have to turn in another application for a 4-person apartment by Friday, March 16.

Buxton 8-person applications
If you are planning to live in Buxton, consider affiliating your application with another four-person application of friends. Groups of eight will have their applications ranked higher than groups of four. You can affiliate your application with another one right on the Room Application. Room applications are due Friday, March 16 to the front desk of 711 N D St or addressed to 'Housing' through the Simpson Mailroom.

The Room Selection Application is the same no matter when you want to live (apartments, Buxton, or Picken).

DATE FOR ROOM SELECTION:
All 2 and 4-person applications: Thursday, March 29 at 7:00pm - 10:00pm, Great Hall
(see ranking in Hopper Gym or 711 N D St ) 

Need a roommate(s)?
If you don't have a roommate and need one (or more), keep an eye out for a Facebook group eligible for all residential students to join.

CHOOSING WHERE TO LIVE

More specific details of each building are located on our Housing Options page.

Barker and Kresge
Barker and Kresge will house only first-year students and Residence Life staff.

Picken
Picken will continue to be co-ed by suite and substance-free and will be for upper-division students. Picken Hall has 30 doubles and 8 triple rooms with suite-style accommodations, except for the lower level (4 triples) which share a community restroom. Picken Hall also has a large basement lounge area as well as study area and a computer lab on the first floor. (Lottery numbers are not used when applying for the basement floor draw, but will be used when assigning the rest of Picken Hall.) See information and link to the Picken Floor Draw application above.

When selecting rooms in Picken, 2-person double applications can be combined to form groups of 2, 4, 6, or 8 people.  Unlike Buxton, larger groups will not have preference over smaller groups, but any groups combining applications will be able to select together.

Buxton
Buxton will continue to be co-ed by suite and substance-free. Buxton houses 134 upper-division students in suite-style accommodations. Each unit features a large room and a separate sleeping room. The units share the restroom with an adjoining room. Priority will be given to groups who sign up as 8-person suites. 4-person applications will select their rooms after the 8-person groups.

The Apartments
In all, the seven apartment buildings (Clinton, Colonial, Washington, Station Square, Hamilton, Detroit, and Weinman) are primarily 4-person apartments, but 2- and 3-person apartments do exist. (2/3- person applications are due earlier than other applications, see above.) Station Square and Clinton East (101-106, 201-206, 301-304) will both be quiet and substance-free buildings. Students wishing and eligible to live in Station Square or Clinton East must sign a “Substance-Free Agreement" outlining your willingness to live in a Substance Free and 24-Hour Quiet Hour environment. This agreement outlines your responsibilities as well as the consequences for violating this agreement. The "Substance-Free Agreement" must be signed and turned in by each resident at Room Selection. There is no GPA requirement for living in the apartments. Students on Disciplinary Probation are not eligible to participate in Room Selection for an apartment space.

How Many Apartments Are There and Where Are They?
There are a total of 112 apartments generally available at Room Selection:
13 two-person, 3 three-person, and 96 four-person apartments
(9 apartments are occupied by CAs (Community Advisors) and their roommates) 

Clinton

Colonial

Washington

Weinman

Hamilton

Detroit

Station Square

 28 quads

8 quads

11 quads

11 quads

12 quads

4 quads

22 quads

 

2 triples

 

 

 

1 triples

 

6 doubles

4 doubles

1 double

1 double

 

 

1 double


College-owned Greek Houses include Alpha Tau Omega (ATO), Kappa Kappa Gamma (KKG), Kappa Theta Psi (KTP), Lambda Chi Alpha (LXA), and Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE). All Greek chapters generally expect members to live in their chapter house (college-owned or not).

Any questions can be directed to your
Residence Life student or professional staff member!

Last Updated: 2/7/12