First-Year Housing Selection

What Are First-Year Housing Assignments?

First-year students are eligible to select Cluster Style, Suite Style, Traditional Style, 1 Bedroom Apartment Style, 2 Bedroom Apartment Style, 2 Bedroom/4 Person Apartment, 4 Bedroom/ 4 Person Apartment, and/or a Living-Learning Community.

For 2024-2025: students will be self-selecting their housing unit beginning on June 17th. First-year students applying by June 1st will receive priority selection time slots in the self-selection process (ie. the earlier you apply, the earlier you will be eligible to pick your housing unit).  You will not be eligible to enter the Self-Selection process housing until you have registered for Orientation.  Details on the self-selection process will be emailed to students throughout May and early June. 

Although many students will be selecting their own units through the self-selection process, we still ask for all applicants to provide us housing style preferences in the event that a staff member needs to manually place you in a unit.  Traditional Style is the default preference for all incoming freshmen that do not indicate a housing style preference.

First-Year Self Selection

Incoming Freshmen students participate in room selection. You may self-select a specific unit based on the building, floor, unit, bedroom, and roommates that you would like. Note: roommate requests must be mutual. 

After applying for housing:

Phase one: Select who you would like to live with via My College Roomie. 

Phase two: Select WHERE you would like to live, via the Housing Selection process in your myHousing portal.

The room Selection Process opens in June and will remain open until July 15th.  You will automatically be added to the Selection Process.  After July 15th, any eligible student who has not selected a room will be assigned by a Housing and Residence Life staff member.

How to Select Rooms During Room Selection

Living Learning Communities
Special Accommodations
Roommate Group Information

Prior to Self Selection: Our roommate matching software is called My College Roomie.  Please see the Knowledge Base article related to My College Roomie for information about roommate matching prior to the opening of the Self Selection Process.

A week before Self Selection starts: Students will no longer be able to add roommate requests through My College Roomie.  For questions regarding last minute roommate requests, please send an email to housing@gvsu.edu and include the name(s) of the students involved in the roommate grouping.

During Self Selection: Students that are unable to secure the type of housing that they originally wanted due to the size of their roommate group, have the ability to break into smaller groups during Self Selection.  For example, if you have a group of 4 but are not able to view your top choice of a 4 person style, you could break your group into two groups of 2 and view options available for 2 students.

When on the Room Selection screen, you will notice a tab called "Select Roommate".  From there, you can remove roommate(s) from your individual selection by clicking the three dots on the left and clicking on the "Remove" icon.  Since you will only see units that will be able to accommodate your roommate group, this will allow you to view the options available to smaller groups.

*Note: Suite Style can be assigned for a group of 4 and the student selecting for the roommate group will choose which students are placed in each room.  A group of 4 will only be able to view fully open suites.  If none are visible, consider breaking into two groups of 2.

How To View Your Housing Assignment
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