What exactly do I need to know about Room Selection?

CSB Room Selection will take place March 17th, March 24th and 26th. However there are several important dates to be aware of throughout March regarding Room Selection. This page is intended to help answer your general questions about room selection.  Please watch your campus mail and email for important information about room selection.

What's the 411?

Students who wish to live on campus for the 2009-2010 academic year must pay the Advance Payment ($200 advance payment) by March 12, 2009. You must also register for a minimum of 12 credits. Mark the following dates on your calendar now so you don’t miss anything!

Advance Payments must be received by the Student Accounts Office by March 12, 2009. Note: Your total advance payment due to student accounts will be $200 if you are living on campus in 2009-2010. If you will be living off campus or will be studying abroad only pay $100. Make sure each roommate makes her Advance Payment on time. Each person must make an Advance Payment in order to participate in room selection.

Attend Open House on February 10 and 12 this is an evening in which volunteers from the sophomore halls and the campus apartments and houses open their doors so that each rising cohort can go and check out their options around campus.  You can see what set ups of each building has to offer, how do the rooms/apartments differ, where's the computer lab etc.  We have Residential Life Staff on hand to answer questions about the halls as well as programs related to topics surronding the room selection process.  Take advantage of this evening and check out your on campus housing options thoroughly so that the night of room selection you can have several good plans in place for rooms/apartments you would like to select.

February 10 - Open House Lottie, Margretta and Brian from 6 to 8pm

• Mock Room Selection Program will be run in the Lower Level of Margretta during program to give students a feel for what March 26th will be like
• A "Things You Never Told Me" program will be offered in the Lower Level of Margretta to help students think through roommate choices and conversations to have with potentional roommates. Also tips about how to find a roommate if you are still not sure who to live with will be offered.

February 12 - Open House in the Campus Apartments

• So You're Going Abroad? Program will be offered at 8pm for students who have been accepted to go abroad in the 2009-2010 academic year who may have questions abotu how room selection and housing will work for them. 
• So What's the Deal with Senior Majority Housing Selection? Program to be offered in the Luetmer Lounge at 8pm to answer questions  students may have about the process for Senior Majority Housing Selection and to stress the need to pre-register to particiapte in the Senior Majority Selection Process.

Sign your Campus Housing Agreement and Decide Who Will Attend Room Selection From Your Living Group. One member of your living group must come to Gorecki 204A on the date and time shown on the room selection slip of the roommate in your living group with the lowest selection number to select your housing.  They will need to have the selection slips for each member of your living group as well as a SIGNED Campus Housing Agreement from each member of the living group and their own student ID in order to enter room selection and choose your housing for the 2009-2010 academic year.

Participate in Room Selection: Room Selection will take place in the Gorecki Dining and Conference Center (GDCC) room 204A on Tuesday, March 24th and Thursday, March 26th. Come to the GDCC on the date and time shown on the room selection slip of the roommate in your living group with the lowest selection number to select your housing.

Register for classes for fall semester. All students living on campus must be registered for a minimum of 12 credits.

Who Participates in Room Selection?

Any student who wants to live on campus for fall semester should participate in room selection.

Note for Fall 2009 Study Abroad Participants: If you are studying abroad for fall semester 2009, you DO NOT need to participate in room selection. We will contact you later this spring to make housing arrangements for when you return from abroad. Talk to your friends you would like to live with after room selection so that you can work out a "switch" with someone going abroad in the Spring! You will be able to make a request for this space when we send out information to you.  We will have an information session during the Apartment Open House on February 12th should you have any questions for our staff.

Residency Requirement

Remember that all current first year students (those who began college in Fall of 2008) are required to live on campus during the 2009-2010 academic year. This is determined by your cohort group (the year you began at CSB) not your class standing (FR, SO, JN, SR).

Selection Numbers

Room Selection numbers will be assigned to students randomly within their respective cohort groups.  Your cohort group is the group of students who began college in the same year.  For example, the rising senior cohort group will be comprised of all students who began college in the fall of 2006, the rising junior cohort group will be comprised of all students who began college for the first time in the fall of 2007 and the rising sophomore group will be comprised of the students who began college for the first time this fall (in 2008).   Numbers will be assigned randomly within each cohort so that all rising seniors have an equal opportunity at senior housing, which is also true for the juniors and sophomores respectively.  Should you have any questions about this please talk to your Residence Director (RD) or contact the Department of Residential Life at ext. 5580 or housinginfo@csbsju.edu.

Students who next year will be:

• Fifth year students (those who started at CSB in the 2005-2006 academic year) get the first selection numbers.
• Fourth year students (those who started at CSB in the 2006-2007 academic year) get the next group of selection numbers. Sometimes referenced as "Rising Seniors"
• Third year students (those who started at CSB in the 2007-2008 academic year) get the third group of selection numbers. Sometimes referenced as "Rising Juniors"
• Second year students (those who started at CSB in the 2008-2009 academic year) get the fourth group of numbers. Sometimes referenced as "Rising Sophomores"

Students who have transferred to CSB will be placed into a cohort as if they had begun at CSB as a first year student.

What You Need to Do

Make the Advance Payment by March 12, 2009.

1. Attend Open House February 10th (Sophomore Halls) or 12th (Apartments).
2. Make sure all your roommates make their advance payments also!
3. Make your list of housing options and preferences.
4. Register for fall semester classes.
5. Decide who will attend room selection from your living group and make sure they have everyone's selection slip and signed housing contact. *(If no one from your living group can attend on your designated selection night contact your RA/RD or the Residential Life Office regarding designating a proxy).
6. Select your housing at room selection March 24th or 26th.

*Housing contracts will be attached to your selection slip when you come to pick it up later in March.

How to Reach Us

If you have any questions regarding room selection, please contact us. We are happy to help and will answer whatever questions you have. ext. 5580 or housinginfo@csbsju.edu.