For Rising Juniors

You are considered a rising junior if you:

• Started as a new student in Fall 2011 or Spring 2012 or
• Started as a transfer student (any class) student in Spring 2012 or Fall 2012 and are living on campus in Spring 2013.
• Started as a transfer (sophomore) student in spring 2013 and are living on campus in spring 2013

Housing Selection Process and You

As a Rising Junior:

• If you are attending classes on the Boston campus for Fall 2013 and Spring 2014, you are not required to live on campus.
• If you don’t want to live on campus, you don’t need to do anything.
• If you do want to live on campus, refer to Rising Junior Housing Lottery process.
• If you are planning to attend an External Program for either Fall 2013 or Spring 2014, you have the option to live on campus the opposite semester if you want to do so.
  • If you don’t want to live on the Boston campus the opposite semester of your External Program semester, you are not required to do so. You do not need to do anything.
  • If you do want to live on campus the opposite semester of your External Program semester:
    • If you will be in Boston for Fall 2013, you will need to pay a $300 deposit in order to be granted housing.
    • If you will be in Boston for Spring 2014, you will not participate in the Fall 2013 Housing Selection Process. Instead, you will be contacted by the Office of Housing and Residence Life in early Fall 2013 about preferences for where you wish to live in Spring 2014.

Rising Junior Housing Lottery Process

If you will be in Boston for the full 2013–2014 academic year, and you want to live on campus, you can submit a housing deposit between Monday, January 30 and Friday, February 10. This deposit secures your spot on the Housing Waitlist. Based on the number of spaces available, OHRL will randomly select that number of rising juniors who will be offered housing. You will receive notification on Wednesday, February 13 to let you know if you have been offered housing. If you are offered housing, you must then determine if you wish to accept the housing offer:

• If you do accept, submit your online Housing Application.
• If you choose not to accept, reply to your housing offer email no later than 5:00 pm EST on Monday, March 11, indicating that you decline the offer of on-campus housing.
  • If you decline by 5:00 pm on Monday, March 11, you will receive a refund of your $300 deposit.
  • If you decline after 5:00 pm on Monday, March 11, but before you select a room in Housing Selection (no later than Friday, April 12), you will be released from housing, but will lose your $300 deposit.
  • Once you select your housing in the Housing Selection Process, you cannot decline the offer of on-campus housing.
• If you do not select your housing during the Housing Selection Process but do no officially decline your space by Friday, April 12, a space will be assigned to you and you will not be permitted to decline the offer of on-campus housing.  After Friday, April 12, if you no longer want to live in on-campus housing, you will need to submit a Food and Housing Board Release Request.

If you were not selected to receive on-campus housing, but believe that you have a financial hardship that would otherwise prohibit you from continuing at Emerson College, you can submit a Financial Appeals Request. Your request must be received by 5:00 pm on Wednesday, February 27. Students will be notified of the status of their request by Friday, March 8. Students who are granted on-campus housing through the Financial Appeals Request must complete their online housing application by Friday, March 15.

Housing Selection Process Timeline for Rising Juniors

For Rising Juniors Taking Classes on the Boston Campus for 2013–2014:

If offered housing through Rising Junior Housing Lottery or Due to External Program Participation:

If you accept the Offer of On-Campus Housing:

If Not Offered Housing

You will stay on the On-Campus Housing Waitlist until you tell OHRL you no longer wish to be on the waitlist or the waitlist period is over on September 17, 2013 (two weeks after classes start).