Come in and select your room for next year on the spot. Room selection for next year will take place the week of April 10th in the Dean’s Conference Room on the 3rd floor of Wren College Union. Students can come in and select the exact room they want to live in next year on the floor plan of the building where they wish to live. You must come in person to select your room and sign your housing contract. Your roommate can not do this for you
Priority will be given to upper class students during room selection. Students with a higher class standing will receive first choice of room. After the “squatting day,” Rising Seniors will sign up first followed by rising Juniors followed by rising Sophomores. Open room sign up will then continue for remainder of the semester. You must be registered for classes for next fall to select a room.
50 rooms will be able to be selected as “private” on a first come first serve basis. A private room is a room built for two but only housing one. Private rooms cost 1.5 times the double room rate for that building.

All new residents will be required to pay a one time $250 Housing Deposit to select a room. This deposit will be refunded when a student completes their housing agreement and successfully moves out of campus housing without damages. All new students will be required to pay this deposit in advance. Current MHC on-campus residents without a deposit will be grandfathered in will not need a deposit. Students who sign up for a room and then cancel their contract after May 1 will be billed a $250 contract cancellation fee.
Print out and complete a Housing and Meal Plan Contract to bring when you select your room.
Squatting:
Students who would like to continue to live in their current room next year have first priority over that room and can “squat” that room before open room selection begins. The exceptions to this are the Apartments, Bailey Mountain Hall, and the Jarvis House which can not be squatted. To squat a room you must come in on the first day of room selection and sign a housing contract. If you fail to come in on the first day, your room will become open for other students to select.

Picking a New Room (not an apartment unit)
Students wishing to live somewhere other than Bailey Mountain, the Dixon-Palmer Apartments, or Jarvis House can come with or without a roommate to select a room on the appropriate day according to their class standing. You can select any available room at that time. You are highly encouraged to seek out a compatible roommate to live with. If you do not have a roommate when you select a room, anyone who comes after you can select to live in your room with you unless you reserve it as a private room. If a current student does not choose to be your roommate you will be assigned an incoming Freshman as a roommate.
Students with different class standings who wish to be roommates can sign up separately on their respective sign up days or they can sign up together on the appropriate day of the lowest class person. For example, if a rising Junior and rising Sophomore wish to be roommates and want to sign up together then they should come in on Thursday, the Sophomore sign up day.
Room Selection Schedule:
Mon, April 10, 2006: Squatters Day: If you want to stay in your current room.
Tues, April 11, 2006: Rising Senior Day: Students with 90 or more credit hours*
Wed, April 12, 2006: Rising Junior Day: Students with 60 or more credit hours*
Thursday, April 13, 2006: Rising Sophomore Day: Students with 28 or more credit hours*
Monday, April 17, 2006 until the end of school: Open Selection

Apartments and Bailey Mountain Hall Points System
The Dixon-Palmer Apartment and Bailey Mountain Residential Apartments will be assigned based on a point system. Groups of students with the most total points will be given the first chance to sign up for these apartment units. You must have 14 points to come Tuesday, 9 points for Wednesday, and 3 points for Thursday. Points will be awarded in the following manner: Rising Seniors (90 hours) = 5 points
Rising Juniors (60 hours) = 3 points
Rising Sophomores (28 hours) = 1 point
05-06 Judicial Board Conduct violation = -1 point

Four Bailey Mountain units are designed for only 2 people and you only need 9 points for those units. All other Bailey Mountain Units will house 4 residents, no more, no less.
All Dixon-Palmer apartments have been designated three person units with one single room and one double room. Students must decide in advance who will occupy the single and who will occupy the double. Four students may sign up for a single apartment and all pay the double rate but if one of the four cancels their contract then the unit will revert back to a triple and the resident in the single room will be charged for a single.
The Dixon-Palmer Apartments can not be squatted.
Individuals wishing to live in the Apartments or Bailey Mountain who do not have a group can come in as solos according their class standing. Solos will be put on a wait list until there are 3-4 solos of their gender. At that time they will be grouped together and assigned an apartment unit.
Regardless of points, a group consisting of only two students will not be allowed to sign up for the apartments until they find a third, and a group of only three students will not be allowed to sign up for Bailey Mountain until they find a fourth person. Groups of two (or three) can go on the wait list together and pick the extra roommates needed.
Apartment and Bailey Mountain Selection Schedule
Tuesday, Apr 11: Student groups with 14 or more points will be allowed to sign up for an apartment in Dixon-Palmer or Bailey Mountain.
Wednesday, Apr 12: Student groups with 9 or more points will be allowed to sign up for an apartment in Dixon-Palmer or Bailey Mountain
Thursday, Apr 13: Student groups with 3 or more points will be allowed to sign up for an apartment in Dixon-Palmer or Bailey Mountain.

** Credit hours will be calculated in the following way: number of credit hours earned by fall ’05 + hours attempted for spring ’06 = Classification for fall 2006. We will not include any hours planned for summer ’06

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