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Academic Year Assignments

The academic year assignment process begins in May and concludes with assignment information being emailed out in early June prior to the beginning of SOAR. UW-Madison has a rolling admissions process, and in order to be fair to all students, we use a random, computerized priority list for room assignments. No matter how early you were admitted to the University, it is possible that you could appear at the beginning or end of the random priority list. Computer processes however can only do so much; our Assignment Office staff value the importance of providing a personal touch to the room assignment process to try to come up with the best possible assignments for students while maintaining the integrity and fairness of the process.