Residence halls, baths, etc. Housing Preferences

Before indicating your housing preferences, it’s important for you to understand your options.

• Individual residence halls: Visit individual residence hall pages for photos, information about features and resident testimonials.
• Locations: Find out where each residence hall is located.
• Virtual tour: Take a 360 degree tour of each hall.
• A good deal: All of the residence halls offer amenities and features that will help you to stay focused on academics and find your niche on campus.

Your Preferences

After you sign and return your housing contract, satisfy your advance payment, submit immunization documentation, and decide on your housing preferences, you’ll be able to submit your housing preferences online. Here’s what you’ll have to indicate:

• Your order of preference for shared space or a single room (limited availability and at a higher cost).
• Your bath preferences, including if you have an interest in a connecting or private bath (subject to availability and at a higher cost).
• Your building and room preferences (select five residence halls).
• Your roommate preference (see below for more information).

In most cases, it’s a good idea to add your housing preferences online as soon as you make a decision. If you change your mind after you enter your preferences, you can always log back in and update them until July 1. Students who do not select their preferences online may end up being assigned a room at random.

Roommates

If you want to share your room with a specific person, you’ll need to indicate your roommate preference online.

1. Log in to My Housing.
2. Select the “Roommate Preference” link in the Navigation Menu.
3. Enter your roommate’s UT EID and have your roommate do the same with your EID. Be sure that your building and room preferences match so that there isn’t a conflict when room assignments are made.

Your roommate(s) name(s) will be sent to you with your room assignment beginning in mid-July.