Saint John's University
Housing Selection Process

• Housing Selection Overview
• Room Registration Process
• Selection Process Procedure
• Lease Requirements & Cancellation
• Sophomore Housing Options
• Block Housing Process
• Junior / Senior Housing Options
• Campus Apartments Selection
• Single Rooms

Housing Selection Overview

The Housing Selection is held in late March / early April each year. Rooms are selected by class status-- seniors, juniors and sophomores. Selection times are determined and assigned for each eligible participant based on total number of credit hours through the Spring semester of the current academic year and the year a student enrolled at SJU (cohort). Times are assigned by computer. A computer assigns, ranks, and sorts the selection times of the participants. Participants with a higher number of total credit hours will get an earlier selection time based on their cohort. Therefore, participants with Senior status (88 or more total credits) will receive an earlier selection time than those participants with few total credits. If a participant has the same total number of credit hours as other participants, their selection times will be randomized with the participants with the same number of credit hours.

Room Registration Process

A current student may sign up for a room at the housing selection if he has paid the $100 advance room registration payment.

Students must register for at least 12 on-campus credits in order to live on campus. A check will be made after room selection to ascertain the number of credits carried by each student.

Room selection slips with the student's selection time and location will be placed in the student mailboxes a few days in advance of room slection. This slip, along with the student's ID card, must be presented at room selection. Students go through the selection process at the earliest time within their group.

If a student is unable to attend selection he must notify the Campus Life & Housing Office. He can designate a friend or have a representative of Residential Life to chose a room for him.

Students studying abroad spring semester have designated individuals to chose a room for them. These individuals may pick up the Study Abroad slips at the Campus Life & Housing Office on the Friday before the room selection.

Selection Process Procedure

Identification Process:

1. Enter Quad 264 when your name and time is announced.
2. Station 1 - Present your I.D. card and selection slip.
3. Station 2 - Get your slip verified and stamped.

Room Selection:

1. Station 3 - Chart area. - Residence areas are represented on large charts. Select a room from those still available. (Rooms that have already been reserved will be marked off on the charts.)

Computer Terminal:

1. Station 4 - Tell the student assistant what room you want. He will check to see if the room is available. Another student assistant will mark it off on the chart to show that it is no longer available.
2. Station 5 - A computer operator will enter your name and room choice in the computer.
3. Station 6 - Sign a residence agreement (lease) before you exit the room.

Post Selection:

If you did not get the room of your choice at selection you may place your name on a waiting list for rooms that might open up at a later date.

Lease Requirements and Cancellation

The Residence Agreement and the license periods are for the entire academic year. Cancellation of housing must be made at least 14 days before the beginning of a semester. There is a charge of $200 if cancellation is given less than 14 days; the $100 advance room deposit is also forfeited. Cancellation of the Residence Agreement will be accepted for the following reasons only: discontinuing from St. John's; studying abroad; medical reasons; graduation; dismissal; internship; student teaching or marriage. No student will be released from the Residence Agreement to move off campus without receiving permission from the Director of Residential Life.

Sophomore Housing Options

Students who will be of Sophomore standing must choose housing at General Room Selection.

General Room Selection

Second-year students live in the following residential areas:
St. Thomas Hall (1st Floor Only); St. Patrick Hall; St. Boniface Hall; St. Bernard Hall; St. Gregory House; St. Joseph Hall; St. Benet Hall.
Second-year students may live with other upper-class students, but only in areas in which both students are eligible to live. For example, a Sophomore and Junior may wish to live together as roommates. They could live in St. Bernard Hall, St. Benet Hall, St. Gregory House, & St. Joseph Hall but could not live in St. Patrick, St. Boniface, St. Thomas Hall (1st floor), or any campus apartment because of the class-standing criteria for each area.

If Sophomores choose to participate at General Room Selection, they will be assigned a selection time & date based on their total number of credit hours and their cohort. They will then attend the selection at their designated time, date, and location with their roommate(s). There will be large charts with available housing option(s) from which they can select the option that best suits their desired living arrangements.

Junior/Senior Housing Options

Students who will be of Junior or Senior standing have several housing options available to them. Juniors have some apartment-style living options as well as the General Room Selection. Seniors may choose whether to participate in the Apartment Selection Process or the General Room Selection.

Apartment Selection

The apartment selection is designed for those students of Senior standing that desire to obtain an apartment in New Flynntown Apts. , St. Vincent Court, St. Placid House, & St. Maur House. The apartment selection is limited only to these 4 apartment areas. Seton and Metton apartments and other upper-class residences will be made available in the General Room Selection. Only students with Senior standing (88+ total credits) will receive selection times for the Apartment Selection. Seniors may bring in students with Junior standing as roommates in the apartments provided that the students meet the Apartment Eligibility & Senior Majority requirements.

Apartment eligibility. To be eligible to live in any on-campus apartment, one must meet the following criteria:

1. Have Junior or Senior class standing.
2. Sophomores and First-year students are not allowed to live in any campus apartment.

Also note:

• Senior Majority - New Flynntown Apts., St. Placid & St. Maur House, & St. Vincent Court, apartments are designated "Senior-majority". That means over half of the occupants of the apartment must be of Senior class standing. For example, in a 6-person apartment, at least 4 of the tenants must be of Senior-standing. All 6 residents can be Seniors, but the maximum number of Juniors in a 6-person apartment is 2. This requirement will not be waived except when general campus occupancy needs warrant a change.
• To live in Virgil Michel Apartments, each student must be at least Junior class standing. The only exception to this requirement is when general campus occupancy needs warrant a change.

Junior & Senior Regular Selection

Students of Junior or Senior class-standing may live in the following residential areas: St. Benet Hall; St. Gregory House; St. Joseph Hall; St. Bernard Hall; Virgil Michel*; Seton*; New Flynntown Apts, St. Vincent Court*; Metten Court*; St. Placid House*; & St. Maur* House.

*= Special eligibility & criteria for living in these spaces apply. See Apartment Eligibility & Senior Majority

If Juniors or Seniors choose the General Room Selection, they will be assigned a selection time & date based on their total number of credit hours and cohort. They will then attend the selection at their designated time, date, and location with their roommate(s). There will be large charts with available housing option(s) from which they can select the option that best suits their desired living arrangements.

Single Rooms

Due to limited resources, SJU only has limited number of single rooms available to students. There are 21 single rooms on the first and second floors of St. Benet Hall. There are also 25 single rooms in St. Joseph Hall and a few singles in Greg House. These rooms will be in the regular selection.

Campus Life/Housing maintains a singles waiting list.  If you are interested in a single room, please stop by Campus Life/Housing, Sexton 210, and put your name on the list. If any singles open up, they are offered to the students on the waiting list.