2023-2024 Housing Information

Blocking provides students the option to select a preferred roommate - as well as a larger group of friends whom they’d like to live near. While blocking does not guarantee an outcome, it gives all students in the block the same selection time – which may allow you to select consecutive or proximate rooms depending on availability. 

You and your preferred roommate may choose to be members of a block or simply enter the quad housing lottery as two person block. For rising sophomores, all students within a block must have the same quad connection and will select rooms in their connected quad. 

As you might expect, smaller block sizes have had more success selecting rooms in direct proximity to one another, as it’s easier to find contiguous rooms when there are fewer rooms involved. 

Juniors and seniors will indicate quad preferences on the housing application. If you are the member of a block, your quad preferences need to match. In the event quad eligibility differs across your block, the block leaders preference will be utilized.

Blocking Rules:

• Includes 2-8 students. 
• Blocks may be comprised of students of any genders.  
• Sophomores may form blocks with any student sharing their same quad connection.
• Every member of a block must complete an online application. 
• Block leaders will invite all members of the block through the online application. 
• Invited members must accept or decline the block invitation. 
• Block members will all be assigned the same room selection time slot.

Blocking Mythbusters

• Blocking (or not) does not increase or decrease the likelihood of receiving a good lottery number. 
• Blocking does not guarantee a specific upperclass housing placement. For example, a large block that has a high lottery number may be bumped to their second preference building because they are too large to fit in their preferred building within a Quad/Hollows/300 Swift. 
• Blocking does not guarantee room or apartment type, nor does it guarantee a certain number of beds within a suite or apartment. All of these items depend on lottery numbers, bed availability, and the selections of students in front of you – to name a few variables. 

Mixed blocks are defined as any one of the following:

• Block members of differing class years (rising juniors and seniors)
• Block members of differing quad connections (rising juniors connected to two or more quads)
• Any combination of the above two

Rising sophomores cannot participate in mixed blocks as sophomores are only able to block with other members of the class of 2026 sharing their same quad connection.

Mixed blocks can be allocated to 300 Swift, Hollows, or a quad all block members are eligible for.

What happens if your are not allocated to 300 Swift, Hollows or a quad all block members are eligible for?

• Your block will be disbanded.
  • Seniors will be allocated to a quad as individual applicants. Quad allocation will be dependent upon individual lottery number and quad preferences submitted on their application.
  • Juniors will be allocated back to their connected quad as individual applicants.
• Juniors and seniors will be allowed to create new blocks with other juniors and/or seniors allocated to their quad.
• Any mixed class year blocks still remaining within a quad will be assigned room selection time slots after junior only blocks but before sophomore room selection.

Juniors and seniors will receive their quad allocations on March 1. At that point in time, all juniors and seniors will be able to participate in the re-blocking period. This allows for disbanded blocks to form new blocks with other students within their quad allocation. It also allows blocks who may have had members leave since the application was submitted in February, to add new members or disband and form new blocks altogether. The re-blocking period will conclude on March 8. No changes to blocks will be accommodated after this date and time. All members of the same block will receive the same room selection time slot on March 20. Sophomores will not participate in the re-blocking period.