Housing Self-Selection for Continuing Students

February 1: Housing Applications Available!

The following applications are available on Housing Central.  All continuing students that have not yet satisfied the university's three-year residency requirement must complete either a Housing Application or a Request for Residency Exemption.

• Housing Application for Continuing Student
• Request for Residency Exemption
• This is a request to live off-campus for students that meet one or more of the Residency Exemption Criteria

The following supplemental applications are available on Housing Central

• Request for Special/ADA Accommodation
• Request for Animal-in-Residence
• Residential Learning Program Application

March 30: Housing Self-Selection for Continuing Students Webinar

Continuing students can attend an online webinar to learn more about housing applications, requests for accommodations and animals, housing self-selection, and more!  Watch our full webinar on Continuing and Transfer Student housing by clicking the image below.

April 1: Priority Deadline for Housing Applications and Requests

• Housing Applications
  Students who wish to participate in Housing Self-Selection must submit a Housing Application by the Priority Deadline of April 1. Participation in self-selection will be based on Stetson's Three-Year Residency Requirement.
• Request for Special/ADA Accommodation
  Students that submit the Request for Special/ADA Accommodation by April 1 will receive a priority housing assignment prior to Housing Self-Selection.  Learn more about the housing assignment process for Continuing Students.

April 1:  Residential Learning Program Applications Due

• Residential Learning Program Applications
  Requests to join a Residential Learning Program are due April 1

April 13: Selection Appointments for Housing Self-Selection Sent

Students eligible to participate in Housing Self-Selection for Continuing Students will receive their selection appointment date and time via their Stetson Email.  This is the date/time that students participating in self-selection will have access to Housing Self-Selection on Housing Central to assign themselves to an available space on campus.

April 18 - 21: Housing Self-Selection for Continuing Students!

Between April 17 and April 21, continuing students eligible to participate in Housing Self-Selection can enter the self-selection process on Housing Central at their selection appointment date and time and assign themselves and their roommate (if a roommate group has been created and available space allows) to an room on campus. 

Check out our housing options for Continuing Students on our Residential Living & Learning webpage!

May 15: Last Day to Cancel Housing Assignment With a $500.00 Fee

Continuing Students that have selected or been assigned housing at Stetson may request to cancel their assignment and Housing Agreement in order to live off-campus.  Requests submitted on or before May 15 will be assessed a $500.00 cancellation fee.

• Students that have not yet satisfied the three-year residency requirement must meet one or more of the residency exemption criteria in order to cancel their housing and live off-campus.  These students may request to cancel their housing by submitting a Request for Residency Exemption.  DO NOT secure off-campus housing until your request for exemption is approved.  Learn more about the Request for Residency Exemption.
• Students that have satisfied the three-year residency requirement may submit a Request to Cancel Housing in order to live off-campus.

May 16 - August 19: $1000 Housing Assignment Cancellation Fee

Continuing Students that have selected or been assigned housing at Stetson may request to cancel their assignment and Housing Agreement in order to live off-campus. Requests submitted between May 16 and August 19 will be assessed a $1000.00 cancellation fee.

• Students that have not yet satisfied the three-year residency requirement must meet one or more of the residency exemption criteria in order to cancel their housing and live off-campus. These students may request to cancel their housing by submitting a Request for Residency Exemption. DO NOT secure off-campus housing until your request for exemption is approved. Learn more about the Request for Residency Exemption.
• Students that have satisfied the three-year residency requirement may submit a Request to Cancel Housing in order to live off-campus.

August 20: Continuing Student Fall Move-In Date

Residence Halls open for Continuing Students!  Continuing Student Move-In takes place at Residential Living & Learning at University Hall.

August 20: Housing Assignment Cancellation Fee Increases to Half the Remainder of the Housing Agreement Period

Continuing Students that have selected or been assigned housing at Stetson may request to cancel their assignment and Housing Agreement in order to live off-campus. If the request is submitted after August 20th (published move-in date), the cancellation fee is half of the remaining rent due for the entire Agreement Period (Fall & Spring).  

• Students that have not yet satisfied the three-year residency requirement must meet one or more of the residency exemption criteria in order to cancel their housing and live off-campus. These students may request to cancel their housing by submitting a Request for Residency Exemption. DO NOT secure off-campus housing until your request for exemption is approved. Learn more about the Request for Residency Exemption.
• Students that have satisfied the three-year residency requirement may submit a Request to Cancel Housing in order to live off-campus.

Stetson University is proud of both its residential campus and its tradition of a vibrant campus community. The on-campus experience provides residential students with a number of benefits not available to commuter students, including support from residential staff that live and work in our buildings alongside our residents, access to university resources and academic buildings just a short walk from their home-on-campus, and opportunities to build relationships within the large campus community. In addition, national research shows that students living on campus have higher grade point averages, higher graduation rates, and greater involvement in university and student organizations. Therefore, Stetson has a three-year residency requirement in which all students are required to live on campus for the first three years of their enrollment at the university.

Exceptions to the residency requirement may be granted to those students who satisfy one or more of the following criteria on or before August 1st AND submit the Request for Residency Exemption found on Housing Central.

Incoming students interested in living off-campus while attending Stetson can learn more about the Request for Residency Exemption.

After completing a housing application, students who are seeking additional consideration in the housing assignment process or reasonable requests for modifications to their housing assignment must submit a Request for ADA/Accommodation found on the Housing Central Home Page.

• Requests for ADA/Accommodation submitted by the Priority Deadline of April 1 will be provided with a housing assignment by Residential Living and Learning that meets their specified needs prior to Housing Self-Selection taking place in April. These students will not participate in Self-Selection.
• Requests for ADA/Accommodation submitted after the Priority Deadline of April 1 will be reviewed following Housing Self-Selection in April. Students eligible to participate in Self-Selection may attempt to select a space in residential housing that meets their accommodation needs. If they are unable to do so, an appropriate housing assignment will be provided after Housing Self-Selection on a rolling basis throughout the month of May, June and July.

Learn more about ADA/Accommodation Housing at Stetson University.

Stetson University provides a unique experience allowing students to live with their animals on campus. There are four different categories of Animals approved by Residential Living and Learning; Pets, Emotional Support Animals, Service Animals and Service Dogs-In-Training. All animals living on campus must be approved through a request process. Students wishing to bring an animal to campus must submit the Request for Animal-in-Residence found on their Housing Central Home Page.

Emotional Support and Service Animals may live in any residential building, however, we do encourage students eligible to participate in Housing Self-Selection to choose an assignment in an Animal-Friendly Housing Location, if not already placed by RL&L in an assignment prior to Housing Self-Selction in accordance with your ESA application. 

Pets and Service Dogs-in-Training will only be approved to live in Animal-Friendly Housing. Therefore, incoming students eligible to participate in Housing Self-Selection should make every effort to select a room in one of our three Animal-Friendly Housing locations during Housing Self-Selection, if not already placed by RL&L in an assignment prior to Housing Self-Selction in accordance with your animal in residence application. . If Animal-Friendly Housing is not available during the self-selection process, the student should select an available space outside of Animal-Friendly Housing. The student's Request for Animal-in-Residence will remain in submitted status and, should space in Animal-Friendly Housing come available at a later date, the student will be offered a reassignment.

Learn more about Animal-Friendly Housing locations, university and Residential Living and Learning animal policies, and the Request for Animal-in-Residence.

Students involved in a Fraternity or Sorority will be added to their house roster by their organization president.  Members that would like to live in their sorority/fraternity house should reach out to their president to ask about available space!  House rosters for the upcoming Fall/Spring academic year are due from organization presidents by March 15th.  Students placed on the roster to live in the house will receive a priority assignment within their organization house prior to housing self-selection taking place in April.