Housing selection is the process by which students may select a room and roommates for the next academic year. Housing placement will take place for students with granted approval for housing accommodations and/or special interest housing. Priority in housing selection will be based on your class status. To live in on-campus housing, participation will be required in either the housing selection or the housing placement process.
The Housing Intention Form will open from March 7-28, 2022. Priority placement is given based on your group's total completed academic credits.
The Office of Residence Life encourages you to attend one of five information sessions, to learn more about the housing selection process. Residence Life professional staff will be present at each session to answer all your questions about this year's process. Please refer to your Mount email for specific times and locations.
Special Interest Housing, are communities in housing that contribute invaluable service and philanthropic projects to their neighbors by providing educational programming, sponsoring, community gatherings, and devoting time and energies to philanthropic projects.
You may participate in housing selection if:
There are no exceptions to the participation criteria above and no extensions will be granted. It is your responsibility to make sure you account is paid in full prior to housing selection and you have registered for your classes by April 30.
Groups are ranked based on the total number of total academic credits completed by the group as of January 31, 2022. The selection day and time are determined by the group's total number of credits. After completing the Housing Intention Application, students will receive an email with the total number of completed credits.
In the event of a tie of total academic credits between two or more groups, a computer-generated lottery number will be assigned.
All returning Mount students interested in applying for Housing Accommodations must complete and submit the required paperwork by the deadline.
All forms must be received by Learning Services by the following dates in order to process your request.
*Please be aware that students are required to re-submit Housing Accommodations paperwork each year if they are interested in receiving it.
Questions about the Housing Accommodations request process may be emailed to Learning Services or by contacting the office at (301) 447-5006.
The next two steps are for the group leaders.
Adding or removing members or changing leaders may impact the group selection time. If so, the changes to selection time will be immediately apparent upon saving the changed group.
Once the student has successfully submitted an assignment, they may still view their selected assignment in the room selection process. However, they will not be able to edit their group or change their finalized room assignment.
After room selection is finalized by the student, the selection they finalized will display on the home page for the resident. This will only display as long as the selection process is “open to students.”
What is a Roommate Passcode?
The questions below are frequently asked by students regarding housing selection and placement.
Students who will be abroad for the fall semester may not participate in housing selection. Residence Life will contact students studying abroad in November to complete the spring semester housing application.
The housing application is an online form processed through the housing system – Mount St. Mary's University Residence. The application must be completed by the deadline to participate in housing selection. See our step-by-step guide to housing selection.
Visit the Housing System: Mount St. Mary's Residence Website. Your username is your full Mount email address (For example: _______@email.msmary.edu) and the password is your Mount email password.
The cost of housing on campus is determined by the university and is subject to change each year. The current housing rates are published on the tuition and fees page. The housing rates for the next academic year have been sent to your Mount email.
The number of academic credits each student has earned helps determine the seniority his or her application group will have for the housing selection process. The selection order is determined by adding each person's credits together and dividing them by the total number of members in the group, which results in the group's credit average. The group's credit average is then used to rank all the groups participating in the housing selection process based on that specific type of housing. The resulting order provides each group their group selection date/time, which is the date and time the group leader may select the room/suite/apartment for their group. The selection period will remain open until the group leader selects the room but must be selected by the deadline as shown on the timeline webpage.
To change the group leader select the green arrow next to the roommate's name you want to promote up to the leader position. Then save.
The roommate passcode is a personal, computer generated passcode assigned to every student. You must give your personal passcode to your group's leader to add you to your housing selection group. When you log into the Residence System, your passcode is always at the top right hand part of the screen.
Although single bedrooms are very limited, there are a few options for students seeking such accommodations. There are single rooms in Powell, Apartments and the Cottages.
If you have any questions that are not answered on the housing selection webpage, you can email residencelife@msmary.edu
If you wish to reside on campus and want to select your roommates and housing assignment, you do have to participate in housing selection.
If you do not have a roommate or housing preference, you do not have to participate in housing selection. However, please be mindful that those who don’t participate per their choice, who have submitted a housing intent form, will be placed on a waitlist, and will be assigned to campus housing when it becomes available.
Students who become eligible after the first housing draft commences will be eligible to participate in the Final Housing Selection process that will take place during the week of April 18.
Options will vary based on what remains from the General Housing Selection process.
If someone in your group decides to leave the group or does not return and that space is not filled with another person of your choosing, then it will automatically be randomly assigned.
The Office of Residence Life reserves the right to use vacancies that occur to house students in need at any time throughout the year, as stated in the housing agreement.
If your chosen roommate does not return next semester, their space may randomly be assigned to another student. Housing consolidation may also be utilized if there is a need for multiple vacancies, at which students with a vacancy may be housed with another student to create a housing space for a student in need.