Room Selection

STEP 1:

Review the Room Selection Instructions (pdf) document.

Sign your contract in the Housing Portal. New future residents may complete it now. Current residents may complete it starting February 1.

Complete the 2023-2024 Resident Application & Contract in your housing portal. You must be an accepted student to TWU. New residents will pay a $50 application fee and $100 deposit.

• Log in to the Housing Portal
• Click on "Application and Request Forms" from the left menu
• Select the 2023-2024 application
• Complete and submit the application

STEP 2:

Choose or add your roommate via My College Roomie. Within 24 hours of completing your application/contract, you will receive an invitation to My College Roomie.

NOTE: New future residents will receive their My College Roomie invitation starting March 1.

My College Roomie is a roommate matching software where you can find your roommate and meet potential roommates. Once you have matched with your roommate in My College Roomie, you will be able to add them to your room during self-selection. Roommates must be matched in My College Roomie in order to create an official roommate group. Roommate groups determine roommate pairs. If you already have a roommate picked out, you will still need to set up a profile and request each other in My College Roomie.

STEP 3:

Select your room according to the schedule below. If you miss your room selection week, you may participate in future selection dates.

Room Selection Dates

Students who complete their application/contract by the below dates will be able to participate in the self-selection* process by choosing their space during the times below:

Students who apply on or after July 7 will be manually assigned a space beginning July 17.

*Self-Selection is a process that allows students to choose their own bed space. Students select their own bed space in a particular room and hall. One person from a roommate group needs to select the bed spaces for everyone in the group to confirm the same room.

Community Eligibility by August Move-In

Parliament Village: New first-time in college students. Parliament is also home to Living Learning Communities.

Stark and Guinn Halls: Second-year and older residents having fewer than 60 credit hours & under the age of 21.

Lowry Woods Apartments: Students over the age of 21 or having 60 credit hours or more.

Age is calculated as the age of the student on August 22, 2023.

Family Housing

Current family housing residents must complete their application/contract February 1 – 19 to guarantee an apartment for fall. Families who mark on their application/contract that they want to switch apartments will receive a simple Google form to complete within three days of submitting their application.

Items to Note

How to Self-Select:

Detailed instructions regarding how to locate and complete your 2023-2024 application/contract, how to select a roommate in My College Roomie, and how to select a room during self-selection can be found in the Room Selection Instructions (pdf) document.

Meal Plans:

Meal plans are required for residents in Parliament Village, Guinn, and Stark Halls.

Change Your Room Selection:

Those who select a room but then want to change must either have all affected residents in both rooms mutually agree to switch and then all email housing@twu.edu, OR they may participate in Room Change Week June 20 – 22.

Residency Requirement:

All TWU full-time single undergraduates who have not completed 60 credit hours are required to live in University residential communities unless one of the following exceptions apply:

• 21 years of age or older
• Active duty military or veterans of military service
• Living with parents or legal guardians within the commuting distance (40 miles)
• With dependent children

If one of these exceptions applies to you, please complete the Residency Exemption Request Form in the Housing Portal. More about the residency requirement can be found on the Residency Requirement Information page.

Parent Signature:

If you are under 18, your parents will also need to sign the Housing & Dining contract. This must occur for the application/contract to be considered complete and submitted. The parent email provided by the student in their application will be contacted to complete the verification online.

Living Learning Communities:

Certain areas of Parliament Village are designated as Living Learning Communities (LLC). If an LLC student has a preferred roommate, the roommate must be a part of the same LLC in order to be roommates.

Gender Inclusive Housing:

The Department of Housing & Dining at Texas Woman’s University seeks to provide a residential environment welcoming to all gender identities. The Gender Inclusive Community, located in Guinn Hall, allows for individuals to live together regardless of biological sex in order to provide a safe and supportive environment for residents in respect to their gender identity and gender expression. Students who complete a 2023-2024 Resident Application will see a Gender Inclusive Community Standards Agreement as an optional form in their housing portal. Those interested in living in the Gender Inclusive Community should complete that form to ensure their roommate matching and room selection options align with others who opt-in to the Gender Inclusive Community. For more about this community, please refer to the Gender Inclusive Community website.

Information Sessions and Events

Information Sessions

The events listed below are intended for current TWU students enrolled in Spring 2023 classes. New future residents will be able to attend an Instagram Live event later in the spring.

February 1, 2023 at 6 PM: Instagram Live

February 6, 2023 at 6 PM: Southeast Ballroom at Hubbard Hall

February 13, 2023 at 6 PM: Virtual via Zoom. Join the info session here at 6 PM on February 13: https://twu-edu.zoom.us/j/7044671407?pwd=TUk4VndJTnhiakNvcFJnTHRlNGZaZz09

First Contact: Meet Your Future Roomie

February 16, 2023, 6-8 PM, Guinn-Stark Commons: Join Housing & Dining for an evening of games, food, icebreakers, activities, giveaways and more while you meet your future roommate! Already have a roommate in mind for fall 2023? Come out anyway and have fun!

Information Tables

Talk to a Room Selection expert in person! There will be a Housing & Dining table, filled with fun giveaways, at the following locations to help answer questions about Room Selection.

February 7, 2023, 12 PM – 1 PM: Pioneer Dining Hall

February 9, 2023, 12 PM – 1 PM: Student Union at Hubbard Hall

February 13, 2023, 12 PM – 1 PM: Pioneer Dining Hall

February 15, 2023, 12 PM – 1 PM: Pioneer Dining Hall