First-Year Experience
Housing
Overview
The information in this document is intended to provide new students with additional support using the
housing selection process in HomerConnect. HomerConnect is an online web-based self service
application used by Ithaca College students to view class schedules, register for courses, verify
financial aid and bursar information, as well as select housing.
What is Housing Selection?
Housing selection is the period of time where students participate in a process for choosing housing
for the next academic school year.
New Student Housing Selection and HomerConnect
The new housing selection process works similar to course registration in HomerConnect, beginning with
a notice sent to the student indicating the time period that they are eligible to login to the system
to create a housing profile and apply for a learning community or specialty housing.
Selection is prioritized by a random lottery number generated by the system. There are no criteria on which this number is generated. Students will be broken up into groups to select housing based on their lottery number (or best lottery number for a roommate pair/group). Each range of lottery numbers will have 1 day to select housing beginning at 7:00am and ending at 11:59pm that night. Students approved for learning communities will select prior to general housing selection and it will be first come, first serve.
Housing selection begins the 2nd Monday after the last orientation session in July.
NOTE: Students in HOME and Sustainably Conscious Learning Communities select housing in early
June.
Students can select housing as an individual, a pair or a group. Only one student needs to login to the system to select housing for the pair or group. If spaces are not available while selecting housing, students are assigned to temporary housing by the Office of Residential Life. After the system closes to new students, the Office of Residential Life will attempt to reassign as many students as possible from temporary housing into permanent assignments as spaces become available prior to opening.
Room Changes Post Selection
Once you select your housing it is final (unless we are able to reassign students from temporary
housing into permanent spaces) until the start of the academic year.
Room Changes After the Semester Begins
Once the semester begins and housing spaces open, priority for spaces in traditional double and triple
rooms goes to students in temporary housing if a request by the remaining resident to fill the space is
not already made. However, wait lists will be available in the Office of Residential Life for students
to fill out requesting a room change.