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Housing Lottery
Keep your current room, dependent on placement and availability or look for a new one.
The Housing Lottery is held every spring semester and is the method by which students can keep or change what rooms they have between academic years. The system is made to be fair and equitable, allowing you to choose a room closest to your preferences from those that are available.
General Process
- Each student will receive a lottery number based on how many units they have.
- Students who want to keep their current room will be dependent on placement of building and availability, there is no guarantee.
- Students with accommodations documented before the lottery have first choice of rooms not already being kept.
- Over the course of a few days, ranges of numbers will be called in order. The student with #1 will pick their room, then #2 will pick theirs, etc.
Dates & Times
Drawing Lottery Numbers
- Lottery numbers will be emailed to you during the week of April 1st-5th.
Special Accommodations
- Time: 9:00a.m.-5:00p.m.
- Location: Office of Residence Life, Porter Hall
- Days: April 3rd, 4th and 5th
New Room Selection
- Time: 4:00p.m.-8:00p.m.
- Location: The Stack in the Powerhouse and Weissberg Auditorium
- Days: April 15th and 16th in the Stack and the 17th in the Weissberg Auditorium
Details for 2024-2025
- All-Female Hall will be Bushnell Hall.
- Gender-Inclusive Hall will be Whitney Hall.
- Alcohol/Substance Free Spaces will be 609 and the A Tower of Wood. (SPIEL)
More Information
Drawing Lottery Numbers
The lottery number will be emailed to you and it will be based off the amount of units you’ve accumulated during your time at Beloit.
Students with documented accommodations needing housing accommodations should go through the LEADS office and will select their rooms prior to others, from April 3rd through the 5th from 8:00a.m.-5:00p.m. in the Residence Life Office in Porter Hall.
Students with an Emotional Support Animal (ESA), as an FHA regulation (not ADA), are not eligible for this priority lottery process.
Please let the Residential Life office know if you will use this process.
Details for Specific Housing Options
All doubles must be filled by two students. You will need to have a roommate before lottery selection!
Both students should both draw numbers separately. Then, when it is time to select a room, line up using the lowest number between the two of you.
Draw a Lottery number, and pick from the available rooms when your number is called. If there are no singles, then you must choose from the available doubles.
Fraternities/sororities must select their residents early in order to turn in their house lists before the lottery. Contact the House President/Manager as soon as possible if you are a member and want to live in a Greek house. You will be notified if you are selected to live in the house.
If so, you do not participate in the Lottery. Your name MUST appear on the list of next year’s residents submitted to the Residential Life Office if you are going to live in the house.
All financial aid forms must be on file and all accounts in order before the list is adopted. Please be sure all is in order.
Special Interest Houses must select their residents early in order to turn in their house lists before the lottery. Contact the House President, Manager or RA as soon as possible if you want to live in a Special Interest House. You will be notified if you are selected to live in the house.
If so, you do not participate in the Lottery. Your name MUST appear on the list of next year’s residents submitted to the Residential Life Office if you are going to live in the house.
All Special Interest Houses must have an active alternate list. If you sign as an alternate you agree to move into the house if a space opens.
All financial aid forms must be on file and all accounts in order before the list is adopted. Please be sure all is in order.
Townhouses and Clary Street Apartments are open to seniors and juniors. They are selected in groups of four (4) students. The two (2) lowest Lottery numbers of the group are averaged to determine who picks a Townhouse or apartment.
There are twelve (12) apartments available in the Moore Townhouses and four (4) available in the Clary Street apartments.
The lower lottery number students must occupy the apartment in the fall. If they drop out, the entire apartment may be given to the next group and the remaining residents will be asked to select rooms from the open spaces once Lottery is over.
If you are interested in an apartment, the names and class years of the four (4) residents must be submitted to the Residential Life Office before the lottery. We will inform you of selection options prior to the room draw.
Emerson Apartments are open to juniors and seniors. They are selected using the normal lottery process. Students will use their selected lottery number, pair up with a roommate and select an apartment using the lowest lottery number.
There are 28 apartments available (19 one bedroom units for two people, 5 two bedroom units for two people, and 4 studio apartments for one person).
All apartments for two (2) people must be completely filled at time of selection. The lower lottery number student must occupy the apartment. If they drop out the apartment may be given to the next group on the waiting list and the remaining resident asked to select from open rooms after lottery is completed.
We anticipate we will hold at least 1 one bedroom apartment for students needing accommodation. You may keep your Emerson apartment by following the normal keeping process.
Only students who have completed six (6) terms in residence are permitted to live off-campus. There are exceptions but you must reach out to Residence Life in order to see they are applicable to you. Check references on landlords with other students. Talk to your friends about their experience.
If you have lived on-campus for six semesters and are now planning to live off-campus, please email the Residential Life Office (reslife@beloit.edu) and let us know your plans before the lottery begins.
- 1. You must file all financial aid forms and your account must be in order before April 12th to participate in Lottery. If all is complete, you will draw your number and choose your room according to the chart on the back page.
- If you are considering moving off campus, please let Residence Life as soon as possible.
Proxies
If you are unable to choose your room due to other commitments such as class or a sort, etc., you may ask another student to do so for you. They should let us know ahead of time that they will be doing so and they must have an email saying the person gives them consent.
Waiting List
If you are dissatisfied with the room you chose in Lottery, you may elect to participate in the waiting list procedure. If you participate, you will then choose up to two (2) other residence halls in which you would rather live. As vacancies develop, and after transfer/exchange students are placed, individuals on the list will be assigned rooms. Ranking on the list is determined on a first-come, first-served basis.
If you sign the waiting list, you agree to be moved to any open space that matches your request. You will be notified of any such change over the summer.