In response to student feedback, Quinnipiac University changed the sophomore and junior housing selection processes for the 2026-27 academic year. Each roommate group will be assigned one lottery number as opposed to each student receiving a number in years past.
“We updated the room selection process based on student feedback to make it clearer, help friend groups stay together, and use group selection numbers instead of individual numbers,” Director of Housing Melissa Karipidis wrote in a statement to The Chronicle.
These changes come after a number of current sophomores faced several obstacles in housing selection last spring.
First-year and sophomore students received an email from the Office of Housing on Jan. 30 outlining the new process.
The housing contract and the housing reservation fee are due by March 6.
“Students who submit their contracts after the deadline of March 6 will not be eligible for the initial selection round and cannot be a part of the roommate group formation,” the Office of Housing wrote in the email to students. “They will be included in the second/regrouping round of the selection process.”
By March 20, current first-years and sophomores must have their roommate groups formed in order to receive their group’s number. Selection numbers will be posted on March 27 after noon.
“Groups will only receive their number IF there is a space available to accommodate their group,” the Office of Housing wrote. “This ensures that all groups receiving a selection number will be able to select a space that will accommodate the size of their group (e.g. 4, 5, 6, or 8).”
Groups who do not make it into the initial round of selection will be moved to the second round of selections and will have to adjust the size of their group.
For current first-years who are new to the selection process entirely, some find the changes to seem like the better option.
“The process of having a group first kind of seems a bit more simple,” Araceli Naula, first-year biomedical sciences major, said.
Also changing for the next academic year is the designated housing options for rising sophomores and juniors.
Due to last year’s housing crisis the Mountainview Residence Hall currently houses first-years, sophomores and juniors. Mountainview was previously home to only first-years.
Mountainview is now officially an option for rising sophomores along with the usual options: The Hill, The Village, Sahlin, Bakke, Larson, Perlroth and Troup.
This is not the only change in options. Currently only sophomores are housed in The Hill and Founders on the Mount Carmel Campus. However, they are both now an option for rising juniors.
Crescent, Westview, Townhouses and Whitney Village remain as junior housing options.
“We believe these changes will have a positive impact, and while no housing process can guarantee that every student gets their first choice, our goal is to make the experience as fair and transparent as possible,” Karipidis wrote.
