Returning Student Housing Selection for 2027-2028

Strict Deadline to Submit Your Housing Application & Deposit: March 31, 2027

SUBMITTING YOUR APPLICATION:

The 2027-2028 Housing Application will open on October 1, 2026

All students interested in housing are required to submit their housing application in the MyHousing Portal (found in Eastern Apps). The housing application is how students sign and agree to the policies, terms, and procedures found in the Housing Contract.

Students can create a profile and list their preferences on their application.

Please note that listing your residence hall preferences does not grantee that a bed will be available there during your pick time.  

To access the Housing Application and MyHousing Portal:

• Login to Eastern Apps.
• Click on the icon of a house for the MyHousing Portal.
• In the MyHousing Portal, click “Applications”.
• Select the application for the upcoming academic year.
  • Read and sign the Housing Contract
  • Add personal preferences.
  • Enter your permanent address and emergency contact information.
  • Enter your residence hall preferences.
    • Remember: This does NOT guarantee you a bed in the hall(s) you list as most preferred
  • Once your application is successfully submitted, you will receive a confirmation message and a confirmation email to your Eastern email.

If you experience trouble accessing the MyHousing Portal or eWeb, please contact the HelpDesk at 860-465-4346, Monday-Friday 9am-5pm.

SUBMITTING YOUR HOUSING DEPOSIT:

Students will be able to submit 2027-2028 Housing Deposits starting on October 14, 2026

All current students who plan to participate in Housing Selection must submit a non-refundable $250 housing deposit BEFORE the deadline posted above. Students eligible for Housing Selection who submit their housing deposit after the deadline published above may still be added to the process, however it may result in a later Pick Time. Housing deposits submitted after the Housing Selection Process ends by students eligible for housing will result in an administrative placement over the summer break.

Housing deposits are submitted using eWeb (found in Eastern Apps). Please visit the Housing Deposit Payment Instructions website for a step-by-step guide on completing this requirement.

PLEASE NOTE: Financial Aid, Loans, Scholarships and payment plans cannot be used to pay the housing deposit. Payment can be made in cash, check, money order, or online using various methods such as bank account transfer, debit, and credit cards (including Visa) through the student's eWeb account. The housing deposit is not subject to credit card transaction fees. The Housing office will not accept housing deposit payments. If paying online, please be sure to pay it as a deposit and not as a regular payment to the account, otherwise it will not show up as a housing deposit.

• Last Day to Earn Points: April 1, 2027
  
• Priority Points Email from Housing: April 2, 2027 
  
• Priority Points Audit Window: April 2-8, 2027
  
• Priority Points Locked: April 9, 2027

Since move-in day, residential students have been earning Priority Points for their academic achievement and campus involvement. Points earned by April 1st of the academic year will determine the order students choose next year’s housing assignment. The more points earned, the closer to the first pick time a student will be. Visit our Priority Points website for a full description of how points are earned.

Students will receive an email from Housing on the date published above with their final breakdown of Priority Points earned. If a student detects inaccuracies in the points they’ve earned, they’ll be able to audit and appeal them with the campus partner who oversees the tabulation of those points during the audit window dates published above. If an inaccuracy is found, the student’s points can be updated. Priority Points are locked in and cannot be updated as of the Friday before the Roommate Matching Phase of the process.

Remember: When students match as roommates, their Priority Points will be averaged together to create one group Pick Time later in the process.

Roommate Matching Starts: April 1, 2027 (Roommate pairs and groups can be updated throughout process)

Students who have applied for housing, submitted their deposit, and remain eligible for the Housing Selection Process will be able to create their roommate groups in the MyHousing Portal so that they may choose a housing assignment together. The roommate matching system will open in the MyHousing Portal during the dates lifted above. Listing a student as a preferred roommate on your housing application does NOT match you with that roommate.

Before Matching as Roommates

• Do you want to live in the same residence hall next year?
• How do you plan to schedule sleep, study, and social time in your room/suite/apartment?
• Do you have any unique quirks a roommate should be aware of?
• When are you okay with guests coming over?
• How do you communicate that you are upset with someone or something?
• How will you share the chores to keep your space clean and tidy?

It is also important that you as a roommate group talk about how you’ll break up into smaller groups in case there are no rooms available to accommodate your roommate group size during your pick time. For example: if you are in a group of 4 students, but all rooms with 4 beds are filled, you will have to break up into smaller groups so that you can choose a room that has the beds needed to accommodate you.

“I Can’t Find My Roommate”

During roommate matching, you will only be able to match with other students who are eligible for housing selection. This means that if you have trouble finding your friend to match with, it’s possible that they either did not apply for housing, did not submit their deposit, or have a hold on their account preventing them from eligibility.

“I Don’t Have Someone to be Roommates With.”

Students in the process are not obligated to create roommate groups. Instead, they can proceed through the process independently, eventually selecting a space where they’ll be living with other students next year. After beds are filled, students will be able to see who their roommates are in the MyHousing Portal and can start the conversation with one another immediately.

After Matching with Roommates

If you do not create a roommate group, you will keep your individual Priority Points and your own Pick Time.

Directions on how to search for and match with roommates will be emailed to participating students the Friday prior to the Roommate Matching Process starting. View a tutorial.

Date: April 9, 2027 after 6:00pm

On the Friday before Housing Assignment Selection Week students will receive an email in their Eastern inbox to check their MyHousing Portal to view their group Pick Time. The Pick Time is when a member of the roommate group will login to the MyHousing Portal to view what beds are available to choose from. Once Pick Times are posted, newly formed roommate groups will not receive a group pick time. 

Once Pick Times are published in the MyHousing Portal, they are non-negotiable and cannot be changed. They are automatically generated in the MyHousing Portal using the Priority Points earned by individual students OR the average Priority Points in a roommate group.

Pick Times will be scheduled between 10:00am and 4:00pm during Housing Assignment Selection Week.

Date: April 12-16, 2027

Housing Assignment Selection Week is 10:00am-4:00pm, Monday-Thursday on the dates found above. During this week, a member of each roommate group will login at/after their Pick Time to view the housing assignments available that can accommodate their roommate group.

Remember: There is no guarantee that you will be able to select a room in the hall you most prefer, nor is there a guarantee that that there will be one suite or apartment on campus to accommodate your group size. Please go into this part of the Housing Selection Process with a plan (ie. what other halls are you going to live in, or how will you break up your roommate group into smaller groups), and managed expectations. 

Traditionally, our most popular halls are Laurel Hall, Nutmeg Hall, High Rise and Low Rise. We do not have enough beds in these four areas alone to accommodate the anticipated number of students in the entire Housing Selection Process. With this, it is important that participants go into the process with managed expectations and understanding that other residence halls on campus are great places to live.

Directions on how to view and select available housing assignments will be emailed to participating students.

To gain eligibility for Housing Selection OR Housing Placement, students must:

• Meet the Housing Application and Housing Deposit deadlines listed above.
• Have no Bursar Holds on their account.
• Have no Student Conduct Holds on their account.
  

Students who cannot participate in the Housing Selection Process include:

• Students who do not satisfy requirements by the deadlines above.
• Students who have a Bursar Hold on their account.
• Students who have a Student Conduct Hold on their account.

It is highly recommended that students with a medical or mental health related housing accommodation have their 2027-2028 accommodation process started with the Office of AccessAbility Services no later than March 1^st and finalized before April 1^st. 

This is to best ensure that the Housing & Residential Life team can place a student in a space that most reasonably meets their needs. A few items to consider for housing accommodations include:

• Students whose only accommodation is for either an emotional support pet or only for access to a kitchen will not be placed in a housing assignment; instead, they will choose an available housing assignment during their pick time. Students with only an accommodation for a kitchen should not assign themselves to Niejadlik Hall.
• Students with an accommodation that requires placement may choose one (1) roommate to be placed with. The preferred roommate must have their Housing Application and $250 non-refundable housing deposit submitted AND be eligible for the Housing Selection process by March 31^st at 11:59pm to be placed in a space with the student approved for an accommodation.
  • If a student with an accommodation matches with more than one (1) roommate, they will participate in Housing Selection Week and there is no guarantee that their accommodation needs will be met.
  • Other beds in a unit will likely be filled by other students. Beds are not held for additional preferred roommates to select or be placed in.
• Students with an accommodation that requires placement who are also eligible for housing (submit their application and deposit, and do not have any holds on their account) can expect to be placed in housing between April 1^st and when Pick Times are published.
• Students with an accommodation that requires placement will be placed in housing in order of their Priority Points earned. Priority Points earned will be considered in where a student is placed on campus.

There will be rooms/suites/apartments designated for Gender Inclusive Housing across all of campus to reflect the Priority Point ratio across all students. This means that Gender Inclusive Housing does not guarantee selection or placement in a specific hall or area.

We can guarantee that there will be enough beds in the Gender Inclusive Housing Selection Process, however there is no guarantee that one unit will be able to accommodate a full roommate group size. This means that it's possible that a preferred roommate group may need to break into smaller roommate groups during their pick time if there are no units with enough beds to accommodate a full roommate group size. 

Students who do not elect to live in Gender Inclusive Housing and would rather live with other students who match their assigned-at-birth-sex will not be able to select a space that is designated for Gender Inclusive Housing. Additionally, if a roommate group of the same assigned-at-birth sex selects a suite or apartment in the Gender Inclusive Housing Community, but there are empty beds at the time of selection, the other beds in that unit will likely be filled by other students who do not match their assigned-at-birth sex.

Students enrolled in the Honors Program at Eastern Connecticut State University will receive a message from the Director of Housing & Residential Life inviting them to join Honors Housing for Upper-Level Students in Nutmeg Hall. If you are in the Honors Program, you must answer the invitation to join this housing community; automatic placement in Honors Housing does not occur for upper-level students.

This housing options is only offered to students in the University Honors Scholars programs. All roommates in such an assignment must also be part of the program to be eligible for placement.

Students who submit their Housing Application and Deposit after the strict March 31st deadline, or they become eligible for the process after March 31st, they will not be part of the Roommate Matching, Priority Points Audit, Pick Time, or Housing Assignment Selection phases of the process in April. Instead, they will be added to a "Late Housing Selection Process" that is scheduled for late May (after Commencement). The Late Housing Selection Process does NOT guarantee:

• Being able to match with preferred roommates who select or are placed in housing in April. Beds will not be held in preferred roommate rooms/suites/apartments.
• Being able to select a bed in a preferred residence hall.
  

Students in the Late Housing Selection Process will be able to match with roommate who are also in the Late Housing Selection Process, and will still choose housing in order of their Priority Points earned. Priority Points will still be averaged together among roommate groups to create one pick time. 

Additional information and instructions will be emailed to students participating in the Late Housing Selection Process.