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Page 1: Special Housing Requests, Disabilities/Special Attention,
This page: Changing Rooms, Types of Room Changes, Singles, Mid-year Room Changes
Page 3: Room Selection, Units, Priority Numbers, Priority, Special Assignments
Page 4: Cancellations, Releases, Release Approval, Release Disapproval, Status, Check-out, North Campus Breaks, South Campus Breaks, Inspections, Repairs
“How can I change rooms?”
You’ll keep your same room from semester to semester unless you ask for a change. Every room change must be approved in advance and in writing by your Community staff.
“Room Freeze”
No room changes are allowed until September 9 for Fall semester and February 6 for Spring semester, at the earliest. Interested residents may request room changes by visiting www.resnet.umd.edu – starting September 5 for Fall and January 30 for Spring. “Freezes” let Resident Life “take attendance,” move any students out of their temporary assignments and move in students who have been waiting off campus. Room assignments also are “frozen” November 4 through the end of Fall semester and March 10 through the end of Spring semester.
“Pull-Ins”
Except for “room freezes,” when a vacancy occurs in your room you’ll usually have 48 hours to name an eligible “pull-in” student of your choice from on-campus.
If there’s no “pull-in,” another roommate will be assigned. Resident Life reserves the right to override any “pull-in” for circumstances such as administrative moves, displacements and extensions of the “room freeze.”
When a “room freeze” has been lifted, two types of room changes can be considered:
a) Moves to an Open Space
A vacancy is required. The resident moves to a different floor or building and becomes the new roommate of someone he or she may not know. There is little to no chance that vacant double rooms will be available for roommates to move into together.
Community staff can tell you where vacancies exist in the residence halls.
(b) Roommate Swaps
No vacancy is required, because the residents of the rooms involved agree (and then ask for Community staff permission) to switch roommate assignments. All students involved must give their consent to Community staff.
What New Residents Should Know About Single Rooms
- Returning residents get them all. You will have to wait your turn (probably a year or two), based on the seniority system we call Priority Numbers.
- No one gets a single because of medical reasons, displacements, roommate conflicts, etc.
- Singles don’t cost any more than double rooms.
Single Room Reassignments
Whenever a vacancy occurs in a single room, the room will be offered to the next resident with priority for that single. Residents usually have 48 hours to accept and move to their new singles.
Priorities for single room reassignments are:
| 1st | Returning residents who lived in the same unit the previous spring semester, in their Priority Number order, including any resident(s) of a single on the unit who may wish to move to the vacant single | |
| 2nd | All other returning residents on the unit, in Priority Number order | |
| 3rd | All new-to-housing residents on the unit, in the order their Agreements were received | |
| 4th | Interested residents of other units in the building or in different buildings, in Priority Number order |
The best opportunity to change buildings or change rooms on your floor is between semesters. This is because of the vacancies caused by residents who graduate, transfer, make room changes or for other reasons leave their assignments at the end of Fall semester. There is a December 1 deadline to turn in Spring Room Change Request forms, available after November 7 at www.resnet.umd.edu. Approved room changes are reported by mail starting December 11. Requests are processed in Priority Number order.
If approved to move, you must vacate your Fall room before you leave in December. You may move into your new Spring room in December if its Fall resident has vacated by the time you need to leave.
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