Beginning March 4, all students required or planning to live in college housing must electronically submit their completed housing application form by March 15.
To access the form, go to https://bit.ly/HampHousing, click Login, and then click on the yellow button that says “HAMPSHIRE Student SSO Login” to enter your Hampshire College username/password. Then click on "Housing Application 2024-2025" link at the top of the page to complete the form until it says "You have now completed your housing form!"
On the housing form, students wishing to live in Dakin or Merrill are able to indicate their preference for living in one of the following community designations:
Substance-free designated floor (all gender space)
Allergen-reduced designated floor (all gender space)
Strict COVID-19 Protocol designated community (all gender space)
Students of Color identity-based community (Merrill)
All-women designated space
All non-binary designated space
All-gender community with no other designation
Additionally, all students are prompted on their housing form to select all of the possible intentional housing communities and identity-based housing communities in which they would be interested in living. This section is intended to have some data in the event your ideal living situation does not pan out and you are either administratively assigned or may be referred to a designated community (such as an identity-based mod).
Students living in Intentional Housing Communities, Identity-Based Mods, and Mods with Resident Advisors will also need to submit their housing form, but will not need to participate in further processes once confirmed by staff they are selected for these special housing assignments. Additionally, Residence Life staff will administratively assign students for certain approved housing accommodations which are institutionally-reserved spaces (e.g., hearing assistance technology and ADA accessible).
February 23: New OARS housing accommodation requests due
March 1: New Intentional Housing Community Interest Due
March 4: Housing form available to submit (due March 15)
March 11: New Identity-Based Mod Interest Due to Community Advocacy & Restorative Practices staff
March 15: Housing form submissions due
March 21: Modmate search opens (revisit your housing form then to search)
March 21: Mod Applications available here on this googlesite
March 29: Mod Application Process begins
April 2: Room Assignment Forms Due for Identity-Based Mods and Intentional Housing Communities
April 26: Mod Application Process ends
May 2: All students are emailed their housing assignment
May 3: Housing Wait List opens at 4 p.m.
Friday, March 29: 4-room applications due
Monday, April 1: 4-room applications decision
Wednesday, April 3: 5-room applications due
Friday, April 5: 5-room applications decision
Friday, April 12: 7-room applications due
Tuesday, April 16: 7-room applications decision
Thursday, April 18: 8-room applications due
Monday, April 22: 8-room applications decision
Wednesday, April 24: 10-room applications due
Friday, April 26: 10-room applications decision
Students wanting to live in a mod (apartment-style housing) will need to form a group with the number of people to fill the desired mod. All mods must be completely filled at the time of selection. Prescott mods have all single occupancy rooms. This means 8-room Prescott mods are also 8-person mods. Each Enfield mod has one double room with the rest of the rooms being single occupancy rooms; the double room may be used either as a double (with two students assigned to it), or as a single occupancy room for one person. This means 7-room Enfield mods may be either an 7-person mod or a 8-person mod.
The mod applications are PDF files (linked above under the timeline) for the group leader to print: one for each mod room count (4-room mods, 5-room mods,7-room mods, 8-room mods, and 10-room mods). Your group will rank interest in all of the listed available mods for the specified room count. Your mod group will print the appropriate application, complete it, and submit it by the due date. You group will need to scan the group application, and email it as an attachment to housing@hampshire.edu. (Search online how to scan documents using your phone to send the attachment). On the decision day, you will be notified if your group was assigned to a mod. If your group is not assigned, your group may then apply for another mod if you are able to add another person(s) and if the deadline has not passed.
Group Application Disqualifications
Applications submitted after the due date.
Any student in the group is ineligible for the 2024 room selection process (not currently enrolled/readmitted, scheduled for field exchange for fall 2024, etc.).
Any student in the group has not submitted their electronic housing form.
Any student in the group already has a room assignment.
Insufficient number of students to fill the mod (all of the rooms).
Beginning March 21, you may return to your housing form to search for potential modmates based on the answers from students that have submitted their housing form. Additionally, the Modmate Connections Board is a resource to find modmates. This is accessible only while logged into your Hampshire email account. The board is separated into two tabs:
If you have a mod:
Add your information to this board if you are looking to add more members to your group!
Look at this board if you don’t have a group and are still looking!
If looking for a mod:
Add your information to this board if you don’t have a group and are still looking!
Look at this board if you are looking to add more members to your group!
Mod groups should discuss living preferences, assistance animals, food preparation, cleanliness expectations, visitors/guests, allergies, and other mod community standards. Some students may wish to have a stricter COVID-19 protocol mod, and should discuss this with their modmates to form community standards for the mods. All residents of the mods will work with their resident advisor next semester to establish a modmate agreement to have clear communicated boundaries and expectations established with the mod community.
Listed below are number of mods by room count. This currently excludes some but not all of the approved accommodations, RA assignments, identity-based mods, and intentional housing mods; as more of these processes impact these numbers, they will be updated on this site. These estimates are provided only to manage expectations and assist in your planning. Please note: there are no 6-room or 9-room mods available.
4-room mods: 5
5-room mods: 7
7-room mods: 5
8-room mods: 6 (3 with loft rooms)
10-room mods: 6 (all with loft rooms)
You can view your lottery points when submitting or logging back into your housing form. Each student’s lottery points are calculated based on a few specific factors:
1 point for each semester of enrollment at Hampshire (maximum 8)
1 point for being 22 years of age or older (as of September 1)
Transfer Students: Additional points will be given to transfer students, based on how many courses they have completed prior to beginning at Hampshire (as recorded by the Office of Admissions). These points will be calculated using the following scale:
2-6 courses = 1 point
7-12 courses = 2 points
13+ = 3 points
On the mod group applications, Residence Life staff will verify accuracy of individual lottery points and the total calculations; it is ok to leave these fields blank and staff will fill them in.
Students not assigned to a mod by the end of the mod selection process will be assigned to live in Dakin and Merrill by Residence Life staff, referring to answers on the housing form. Students with a desired roommate wishing to be assigned to a double-occupancy room should express this interest by emailing housing@hampshire.edu, copying the desired roommate; if there is an available room in the hall designation, staff will administratively assign both students to the double room.
Dakin and Merrill assignments are based on hall designations, provided preferences for these communities, and other factors such as approved OARS accommodations based on medical needs. These are often completed after assessment of expressed interest; therefore, students are unable to provide specific preferences for their assignment such as one building, floor, directional placement of windows, etc.
All spring 2024 residential students continuing into the fall 2024 semester are required to have a college housing assignment next academic year. Students approved to return to the College fall 2024 from leave, withdrawal, field study, or study away or exchange who lived in campus housing prior to departing campus are also required to live on campus. Students required to live on campus must participate in the room selection process by electronically submitting their housing form. Required students believing they meet the criteria to live off campus should submit their Living Off Campus Application.
Students approved to live off campus (not required to live in college housing) during the spring of 2024 who are continuing at Hampshire College during the fall of 2024 will have their residency status extended to the fall; in other words, if a student currently has the designation of “home” or “off-campus”, this status will be the same status in the fall. Home status means the student lives at home with family, whereas off-campus status means the student is renting a space off campus; these are important distinctions for financial aid packages. If a student currently has the status of off-campus but next academic year will live at home and commute, this change in status must be approved by the College to be updated in college systems and reflected with financial aid staff.
All current students continuing at Hampshire College during the fall 2024 semester are eligible to participate in room selection, with the following exceptions:
Students who have been granted off-campus housing for the upcoming academic year
Students who have been approved for leave, field study, exchange, or withdrawal for the upcoming semester, or have submitted leave of absence documentation
Students who have been denied room selection privileges as a disciplinary sanction
Students planning to not be in campus housing fall 2024 but returning to campus housing spring 2025 will need to email housing@hampshire.edu in November 2024 regarding their housing assignment; these students should not submit a housing form until they are provided instructions in November 2024. Residence Life staff are unable to hold spaces over the fall semester for students planning to return for the spring semester, or to record preferences.
If you currently have an OARS-approved housing accommodation and plan to live in college housing next semester, your accommodation will extend to next academic year. Students with approved assistance animals are able to select any housing assignment except reduced allergen spaces, and they should speak with any potential modmates so all residents of the mod agree to live with an approved animal. Residence Life staff will be in contact with students with approved accommodations (other than assistance animals) regarding their room selection process to specify whether they will be assigned prior to or during the general process. Students without current approved housing accommodations wishing to have in place a reasonable accommodation based on a medical need will need to submit a request to the Office of Accessibility Resources and Services (see https://www.hampshire.edu/oars/office-of-accessibility-resources-and-services) no later than February 23, 2024 for full consideration.
When the room selection process has concluded, an electronic wait list form will become available for students to submit if wanting to request a change of room assignment. This is only for continuing students with a fall room assignment. Click here for the link. Between end of July and early August, submitted requests will be processed based on available space and communicated to those students with changed room assignments.