Housing & Residence Life: Frequently Asked Questions

Students studying abroad for the spring semester can participate in any housing selection that they prefer: Themed Housing, Room Encore, Woodland Residences Selection or General Room Selection. If they are participating in Themed Housing, Room Encore, or Woodland Residences Selection, students should e-mail Residence Life with their desire to be involved in those process. For those three processes, students should make sure that their name is on the application. For General Room Selection, students should send in a proxy form, regardless of whether they have a proxy or prefer Residence Life to select for them.

If you are not participating in any of those above room selections, then you will attend General Room Selection, which will be held March 27 and March 29 in the Latour Room.

Students studying abroad for the fall semester will not participate in room selection during the spring process. In November or December, contacting the Office of Housing and Residence Life to begin the process of arranging your spring semester housing.

Unfortunately, we do not have statistics for the likelihood of students getting placement in a particular residence. Each year, students prefer different residences; therefore, each year, the residences fill at different rates so we are unable to predict placements.

No, Madonna does not have any minimum requirements. The only residences with minimum requirements are Immaculata Hall and the Woodland Residences.

If you want to live with a new student, either a freshman or a transfer, we recommend that you stop by Residence Life, because your course of action will vary depending on where your requested roommate is in the Admission process.

• If you definitely want to know that you have selected a place on campus where you would want to be, then you should go ahead and submit the Big 3. If you decide not to return to Marywood or live on campus, then the room and board charges would be removed from your student account. However, you would forfeit the $300 housing deposit.

• If you want to wait and see what your plans are going to be and not run the risk of losing the $300 deposit, then you could wait to do the housing selection process. We will have enough spaces on campus for you if you decide to choose a room later. We do not hold any spaces in reserve. So, if you choose to enter the room selection process later, then you can choose from the spaces that are available at that time.

• So, we recommend that you figure out which scenario you are most comfortable with based on your plans.

Please contact the Office of Housing and Residence Life so that we can add your name to our rosters. You will need to turn in your "Big 3" documents and attend the General Room Selection process.