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Helpful Tips for Submitting Your Hall Preferences

The following tips can useful as you rank your hall preferences in the My UW Housing portal. For more information on the steps in this process, you can return to the main Hall Preferences page.

• Preferences can be updated until May 1, 2013. Be certain to hit submit to save your preference changes.
• Two students wishing to become roommates must list their hall preferences in the exact same order and preference one another in My UW Housing.    
• Students interested in living in a Residential Learning Community or the Substance Free Community should rank it as their #1 preference, and make their $250.00 Advance Payment. Learning Community Room Selection begins April 24, 2013 and will continue as space allows.  
• University Housing has two residential neighborhoods – Lakeshore and Southeast (see our Residence Halls map). If you would prefer one neighborhood more than the other, be certain to list all of the halls in that particular neighborhood at the top of your preference list.  
• Rates and room types vary throughout the residence halls and neighborhoods. Students interested in a particular room type should list all of the buildings with that particular room type at the top of their preference list. Residence Halls that have the standard double room rate include *Bradley, Cole, Elizabeth Waters, Kronshage, *Sellery, Slichter, Sullivan, and *Witte.
  *Note: All of Bradley and designated floors in Sellery and Witte have a required Learning Community fee.    
• Single rooms are available primarily in Adams (as part of the International Learning Community and Transfer House) and Tripp, Barnard (as part of Chadbourne Residential College), Merit, Smith, and Susan Davis (non-first-year students only). Students interested in a single room should preference these halls at the top of their list. You should also check the box which states, “I would be interested in a single room if one is available for my room assignment. I understand that this is not a guarantee, and that single rooms have an additional cost.”  

Items to note:

• University Housing will use your preferences to determine your hall assignment.
• University Housing cannot guarantee placement in a particular building or room type.  
• University Housing hall assignments are not made on a first-come, first-serve basis due to rolling admissions at UW-Madison. Assignments are randomly computer-generated, based on your submitted preferences.  
• The Division will not discriminate in assignment to University Housing on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, religion, disability, national origin, or ancestry.