FAQs

All undergraduate students are required to live on campus freshman through junior year. 

Room rates are approved by the Board. Please find the list of room rates here.

On-campus housing is required and thus guaranteed for all full-time freshmen, sophomore and junior students.

Senior students may apply for a fourth year of on campus housing during the Eligibility process in the fall semester.

New students are scheduled to move into the residence halls on Friday, August 26, 2016.  We will notify you of the appropriate move-in time when you receive your housing assignment in early August.

New students cannot request to arrive early, unless they are part of a pre-orientation program, in-season athletic team or a specificlly pre-approved group. Please plan on arriving on your assigned move-in date. If you need to make travel arrangements prior to the when assignments are made, you should make your arrangements to arrive on Saturday.

First-year housing assignments are generated by computer, and are carefully reviewed by the Office of Residential Living. Requests to live in specific residence halls will not be considered unless there is a religious or health reason for requesting a particular hall, (such as need for a private bath). Please indicate that reason to us in a separate email to newstudenthousing@georgetown.edu. Separate documentation may be required.

It is our experience that students place more value on the friendships made in the residence hall than on the hall’s location.

First-year single gender floors are available. Locations of these floors may change based on the number of requests for this type of floor. Most residence hall floors are all co-ed. On co-ed floors, separate hall baths for males and females are located on each floor. Only Village C rooms have private bathrooms.

You may request a single-sex floor when you fill out your Living Preference Questionnaire. Only students who select this option will be assigned to a single-sex floor. Students who request a roommate that did not select this option will not be assigned to a single-sex floor.

All residence halls and apartment areas have daily quiet hours that are enforced between 10:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m. on nights preceding undergraduate class days and between 12:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. on other nights.

Assignment notifications will be sent to student’s Georgetown email account in early August. Room and roommate information will be available for viewing on Hoya Housing.

Hoya Housing is your personalized webpage where you will find your room assignment, room description, roommate information, mailbox number and combination, and package log.  You will be able to report a repair via a work order to Facilities, and select housing for your sophomore, junior and senior year.

During the month of August through the second week of classes, there is a room switch freeze. Room change requests are not granted except for emergency purposes during this time. You should take the time to get to know your roommate and discuss the things that are important to you. When you arrive on campus, you and your roommate will be asked to complete a roommate agreement by your Resident Assistant. While students may request a change of building assignment, these requests cannot be guaranteed. If we can make a change prior to arrival you will be notified.

Residence Halls & Apartments Opening & Closing Schedule

CLOSE for Fall 2022: Sunday, December 18, 2022 | 10am

OPEN for Spring 2023: Tuesday, January 10, 2023 | 10 am

CLOSE for Spring 2023: Sunday, May 14, 2023 | 10 am (non-graduating students)
Monday, May 23, 2023 | 10 AM (graduating students)

Students can remain on campus during Thanksgiving, Spring and Easter Breaks and all three-day weekends. During Winter Break, all students living in residence halls and apartments must vacate their residence. You will not be permitted back into your residence until Spring Semester opening.

First-year and sophomore transfer students cannot request to be placed on the single room waitlist. Students with medical need for a single must contact the Academic Resource Center.

Students who need special housing accommodation for a medical need or disability must contact the Academic Resource Center. To begin this process, please email medicalhousing@georgetown.edu.

All students residing in university housing on the Hilltop campus (includes university-owned townhouses and apartment residences) are required to participate in a Meal Plan. You can learn more about the meal plan requirement, exemption requests and meal plan options available here. Plan selections and changes are managed in the meal plan section of Hoya Housing.

Yes. Students who are interested in a room change should first reach out to their Resident Assistant for a roommate mediation. Should you still like to pursue a Room Change, the application to submit this request will be available on Hoya Housing.

All rooms are furnished have an XL twin bed frame and mattress, desk, desk chair, dresser, closet/wardrobe.

Students are not permitted to loft their beds. Beds can be bunked to provide more floor space in rooms.

All rooms have wireless internet.

Yes, students are encouraged to make their rooms their home-away-from home. You should coordinate with your roommate on larger items that will take up space in the room. You are welcome to hang posters, pictures, curtains, etc. You cannot put holes in the walls, paint or alter the physical space. We recommend using removable hooks and tape for pictures and posters. Use brands that will not pull away the paint.

No. All basic furniture is provided by the University and must remain in each room. Do not bring mattresses or large items of furniture. Waterbeds, spas and water chairs are expressly prohibited in the residential facilities.

Refrigerators are limited to a maximum capacity of 3 cubic feet. Rental units that meet safety requirements are available each year at registration under the sponsorship of a student club.

First-Year students can participate in CHARMS.

Yes, if you are accepted into the following LLCs: Living Well, Culture and Performance, Explore DC and Entrepreneurship. Only these LLCs will let you participate in CHARMS and find a roommate who has also been accepted to this LLC. Students accepted to Justice and Diversity or Global Living (international students) will be matched with a roommate by the advisor. 

You simply do not need to set up a Roommate Profile or use the CHARMS page in your housing application. If you have completed the Living Preference Questionnaire, The Office of Residential Living will use yourLPQ to match you with another student based on your common living preferences.

Not exactly. When you send a message to another student, CHARMS generates an email to that student’s GUMail account (their @georgetown.edu address). The email informs the student that they have a message waiting, and they will see a link to the message room you two share privately within CHARMS. That student can log into Hoya Housing, read the message and respond back if desired. Since all the notifications go to your @georgetown.edu address, it’s important that you have your email address set up.

No problem. There are three ways to search for roommates in CHARMS. You can either use the Roommate Suggestions section to review potential roommate matches that have been determined based on all your LPQ answers. Search for a specific roommate if you know their NetID. Or search for roommates by filtering specific LPQ answers.

Don’t worry. If you don’t have a roommate by the time that CHARMS ends, the Office of Residential Living will use your LPQ to match you with another student based on your common living preferences.

The Office of Residential Living will use your living preference questionnaire to match you with another student to form a roommate pair based on your common living preferences.

As a rule, you should consider a roommate match made through CHARMS to be final. Breaking the roommate pair is unfair to one if not both students, as you will both have to start the process over with limited time left before the deadline. In addition, all other invitations to or from the students would have already been cancelled. Make sure that you are satisfied with the student you are matching yourself with before the roommate invitation is ultimately accepted.

Only in extreme circumstances we dissolve at roommate pair, however, both students have to notify the office in writing requesting the dissolution. At that point, the Office of Residential Living will use yourLPQ to match you with another student to form a roommate pair based on your common living preferences.

We want to protect the anonymity of all of the students during the CHARMS process. We want students to be able to extend, accept or decline invitations without having to worry about rubbing another student the wrong way.

No. Once you made a match, you will no longer be able to use the CHARMS program. If there are students who you want to continue to communicate with, you will need to exchange contact information with them before a final match is made.

New Student Orientation will be mailing information regarding NSO Registration to include information about housing. You will be directed to our website. You should have received your NetID from the Admissions Office which will allow you to log into Hoya Housing.

New Students are not permitted to arrive prior to their assigned move-in date. First-year students who are part of pre-orientation programs or athletes with preseason training will be contacted by those offices regarding arrival dates and times.

Please review our Parent Guide for a detailed look at how to handle situations concerning your student.

The opportunity to apply to our various Living Learning Communities takes place each spring. Students can apply for up to 3 LLCs through their Hoya Housing account. The application requirements are different for each LLC. Review information on our LLCs by visiting this page.

You will not be charged for housing if you notify the Office of Residential Living in writing before school begins. We will contact your Dean or the Registrar’s Office to confirm your withdrawal.

If you are in need of maintenance to fix a broken item or address a facility concern, please submit a General Maintenance Request. If you are needing to submit a work order for a Laundry machine, please submit a Laundry Work Order.

E-mails sent to students are saved in the students Hoya Housing account. Log into Hoya Housing and click the Messages button in the top right corner!

Room rates are approved by the Board and distributed each spring for the following academic year. 

We do offer single rooms to upperclass students who opt in for Phase 2 of Housing Selection. Singles are split between males and females and only exist in LXR, McCarthy, Kennedy and Reynolds Halls. Some singles on campus are reserved for persons with physical disabilities or other special needs. The 3 singles in Copley are reserved for students with a medical need, who are mobility impaired or need access to a private bathroom.

In order to be equitable to all students, all apartments and rooms are placed back into the general pool during Housing Selection each spring. Students have the opportunity to select their same room only if it is available at their lottery time.

Various summer options are available to students. Click here to learn about Summer Housing.

Yes. Click here to view our Room Switch Policy.

Available rooms and apartments will be listed on Hoya Housing during your room selection process. At the end of each selection day, Residential Living will compile a list of chosen spaces to let students know what is gone.

No. During the group formation process, a sponsor will be chosen to represent your group. The sponsor will be required to select the apartment/room on behalf of the entire group. Click here to learn more about the Housing Selection Process.

No. There is no “pulling up”; for groups. If 4 students wish to room together, they should enter Housing Selection: Phase 1 as one group. A group will have the opportunity to add in another student to be a fifth, sixth, or seventh member of their apartment group if they chose a unit with more than 4 beds.

No. All empty apartments revert to the Office of Residential Living to be offered to the next group in line.

Yes. You may choose any available apartment (with the exception of townhouses) with a mixed group.

It is possible to request an international roommate. However, the international roommate may not be one of the original four members of the apartment group. The international roommate may only be added in as the fifth, sixth, or seventh member of an apartment group.

Consideration is given only to serious medical conditions which are documented by a health care provider. Students with medical need for special accommodations will need to contact the Academic Resource Center to request medical housing. See the Housing Selection Handbook for additional information.

You should make plans to participate in Housing Selection as if you are not chosen as an RA. If you are selected to be an RA, you will be offered an RA space. If you are a member of an apartment group, the remaining roommates will have 3 days to name an eligible replacement from the date you are dropped from the assignment. If no replacement has been named by this deadline, the space will be posted as a vacancy in the housing selection.

No. You cannot give away your lottery time. If you do not select a space during your lottery time, we will simply move along to the next group. 

Students abroad should regularly check the Student Living web site for information about the selection process. Abroad students who are interested in selecting into an apartment or suite will become part of a 4 person group during Phase 1 of Housing Selection. They should ensure that another member of their group is designated as the group sponsor.

Students confirmed by the Office of Global Education to be abroad fall semester will not be eligible to go through the housing selection process. The Office of Residential Living will reach out to fall study abroad students in early September regarding their spring housing options.

Fall residents may fill anticipated spring vacancies by naming a new roommate on a Vacancy Fill-In form. These forms will be due to Residential Living late fall semester. More information will go out to fall residents about this process in early-September.