Guaranteed List
- Deadline to submit form: 1pm Eastern, Wednesday, April 10, 2024
- Deadline to cancel without cancellation fee: Thursday, May 2, 2024
- Deadline to update ranked preferences on Portal: 11:59pm Eastern, Monday, June 17, 2024
- Assignments will be emailed to students by 11pm Eastern, Thursday, August 1, 2024
If students are not able to pick a room in the 123 Lottery (or don't want to pick from what's available at their Selection Time), they will submit the Guaranteed List Form to provide ranked preferences to be assigned to a room over the summer.
To fill out the Guaranteed List Form, log into Housing Portal and click ROOM SELECTION.
Please check out the Frequently Asked Questions below for information about how assignments are made, etc.
Note: students cannot submit the Guaranteed List form if they already have a room assignment (picked in the Lottery or from a Pre-Lottery process). However, they can look for Pre-Fall 1-for-1 Room Swaps.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why are some students not able to pick a room during the Housing Lottery?
Each year during the Housing Lottery, many students pick rooms even though they are not completely sure they will be living in campus housing next Fall. This includes students who are waiting to hear back from a Study Abroad program, thinking about moving off-campus, applying to transfer to another college, considering taking a leave of absence from Barnard, etc.
This means that more students will be taking part in the Lottery than the number of spaces to pick from. Typically the rising-Sophomores with the last Lottery Numbers & Selection Times will not be able to pick a specific room through the Lottery. Students in the 123 Lottery as an individual will not be able to pick into Doubles or Triples after all the Singles have been picked. Other students may not want to pick from the rooms available during their Selection Time and may choose to sign up for the Guaranteed List instead.
Where will I be assigned? Will I get a Single room?
Students on the Guaranteed List will provide ranked preferences for building and room types (similar to a Housing Application). They may also request to be placed with other students on the Guaranteed List or into a specific vacant room space.
The students on the Guaranteed List will be assigned towards the end of the summer into rooms that other students cancelled from.
Cancellations occur in all types of rooms across campus. However, we cannot guaranteed that specific room types or buildings will open up due to cancellations or would be available for you to be assigned to based on your prioriority.
Because there will be a finite number of vacancies to work from, it may not be possible to place you in one of your top preferred buildings or room types. We strongly recommend that you rank in order as many building & room type combinations as possible, in case the College cannot assign you to one of your top preferences.
Usually there are more requests for Singles than the number that open up due to cancellations. This means that some students (with the last lottery numbers) will be assigned into Doubles or Triples with other upperclass students. The College will use the roommate matching questions on the Portal in order to find the best match for you from among the spaces that are available.
While the College will try to place students with requested roommates or into specifically requested rooms if possible, those requests cannot be guaranteed.
How do you prioritize the assignments? Do I get priority if I submit the form earlier?
The assignments for students on the Guaranteed List are made in 123 Lottery Number order. Students who signed up for the Guaranteed List before the 123 Lottery will be generated a random number by class year to slot them in-between the other students.
Priority is not determined by when / how quickly students submitted the form. Students just need to make sure they submit the form before the deadline listed at the top of this webpage (and they may edit their preferences through the deadline at the top of this webpage).
Note: if students are in a mixed-class group for the 123 Lottery and switch to the Guaranteed List, they will be prioritized based on the random seed value (between 1-9999) that was used to determine the sequential order of Lottery Numbers & Selection Times by individual or group Point Values. For a group made up of a rising-Junior & Sophomore, that means the rising-Junior will be priotized earlier within their class year (where they would have been if they had not been in a mixed-class group) and the rising-Sophomore would be prioritized late within their class year.
When are assignments made / sent to students? Why do you wait so long to send out the assignments?
Room assignments will be emailed to students' Barnard email addresses by August 1. Assignments may be sent out in groups as opposed to all at once.
We wait until we expect to have received the majority of the cancellations over the summer, so that we have the widest array of available spaces to match to students' preferences. This helps us to hopefully find better matches for students instead of just assigning them to rooms as each cancellation is received.
Can I request to be placed with another student on the Guaranteed List?
Students may request to be assigned with another student who does not have a room assignment. Those requests must be mutual (i.e. on both of your forms). The College will do its best to place you together if possible; however, that depends on whether any completely empty doubles are available.
If the College cannot place you and your requested friend together in the same room, we will try to place you as close together as possible (in the same suite, floor, building, etc.) if possible. Students who wish to live with/near each other should coordinate to make sure their ranked building & room type preferences match.
Can I request to be assigned to a specific room that another student cancelled from?
Yes, students may write in a request to be assigned to a specific vacancy on their Guaranteed List form. However, assignments to be specific room cannot be guaranteed.
Requests to be assigned into a double with a student whose roommate cancelled are more likely to be possible. The other students must email housing@imomoew.com before July 1 to confirm that the request for you to be placed in the room is mutual.
Requests to be placed into a single in a specific suite may not be possible due to requests from students' whose Lottery Number was better than yours and would be placed from the Guaranteed List first (ex. if you're a rising-Sophomore and asking to be placed into a specific single, it may not be possible based on the number of rising-Seniors, etc. being placed before you).
What if I don't like the room assigned to me?
Students may apply for a Fall room change or look for a Room Swap after classes start in September. Students who are not able to get a room change in the Fall are encouraged to apply again in December for a Mid-Year Room Change when more options may be available (because of students graduating mid-year, leaving to study abroad, etc).
Students who no longer plan to live in campus housing would need to submit the Housing Cancellation Form (please note that cancellation fees would apply).
If you are thinking about cancelling housing, we strongly encourage you to read the information at http://imomoew.com/reslife/housing-options/off-campus and/or talk to the Res Life office before making that decision. Students who move out of campus housing lose their guarantee of housing for the future (and may not take part in Room Selection) and may qualify for less financial aid than students who live in campus housing.