Room Selection

Information on housing applications and room selection.

Room Selection Process 2025-2026

Housing Applications for Buxton, Picken, Apartments and Theme Houses will be available on January 21^st for the 2025-2026 academic year.

The room selection process includes application and selection. Read about the details below.

If you have questions or are unfamiliar with the process after reviewing material, ask your CA! They can help answer questions about the options and process.

Check out your lottery number. They will be posted in Student Development on Tuesday, January 21, 2025. and emailed out to all students.
- Lottery Information Session will be held on Monday, January 27^th at 4pm in Hubbell Hall.
Decide who you’d like to live with and turn in a housing application. For deadlines and application, see above. You can turn in a housing application by dropping it off at the front desk of Student Development or sending through campus mail addressed to “Housing.” If all parties are off campus for Spring 2025, an application can be submitted via email to heather.emery@simpson.edu. Please just include all parties in the email.
Theme Housing interviews occur in late February or early March for those applicants, if more than one group applies for the same house.
Students with housing accommodations will be placed around February 19th.
- Students who have housing accommodations should make sure to respond to any emails they receive from Karen Lynch and/or SAS.
- Housing accommodation renewals are due to SAS by Friday, February 14^th, 2025.
For 2/3 Person apartments, make sure at least one person per room attends housing selection on Tuesday, February 25th from 2 to 4pm in Hubbell. Students who are not able to attend on selection days will be placed based upon their listed preferences.
For all other applications, make sure at least one person per room attends housing selection on Wednesday, March 12th, 2025.

4-person apartment selection will be from 1 to 2:30pm in Hubbell Hall.

Buxton and Picken selection will be from 3 to 4:30pm in Hubbell Hall.

Two and Three-Person Apartment Applications

2/3 Person Application Due: February 21st

Apartment Applications Due: March 7th
(Detroit, Weinman, Clinton, Colonial, Station Square, Washington)

There are 22 2-person apartments on campus and 5 3-person apartments. Please know that while rising juniors are able to apply for the 2-person, 2-bedroom apartments, the likelihood of ranking high enough to place into one of the spaces is very minimal. The average lottery number of students who were able to select this style of housing was a lottery average of 150 or less. Several seniors who were not ranked high enough to get 2-person, 2-bedroom apartments for the 2024-2025 year.

To apply for these apartments, turn in a Room Application by February 21st, by 4pm, to Student Development. This selection will be made on Tuesday, February 25th from 2 to 4pm in Hubbell Hall. If your application is unsuccessful, you will have to turn in another application by March 7th.

Groups of 2 people can apply for 2-person apartments, and there are up to 22 of those apartments available (9 in Detroit, 1 in Weinman, 6 in Clinton, 4 in Colonial, 1 in SSQ and 1 in Washington). There is a premium rate for these spaces if they are 2 bedroom units. Groups of 3 people can apply for triples (5 in Detroit, and 2 in Colonial). Please use the options at the top of the room application to indicate this preference.

Participation in Room Selection is only for students registered full-time for Fall 2025 – students must be registered full-time by April 1, 2025, for the application to still be valid. Participation can be denied for those not registered full-time for the upcoming semester by the April 1st deadline, having outstanding accounts at the Business Office, having an incomplete, invalid or fraudulent application, having successfully petitioned, or having already been housed in a Theme House, or Greek House. Each person may only be on one application. Fraudulent applications include signing up for a space knowing that someone on your application intends to live off-campus or withdraw. Students going abroad Fall Semester cannot be on any application. Students not registered full-time at the end of Spring Semester may have their housing assignment revoked at any time.

Applications for March 7 Deadline:

Buxton Hall

If you are planning to live in Buxton, you can apply as a group of 4. Each group will be in one room in Buxton, and you can join your application with another application of friends to form a suite. Suites will have their applications ranked higher than rooms which do not combine with another application. This is because each room in a suite has access the other room in it through a bathroom, so we prioritize the joining of applications. You can affiliate your application with another one on the Room Application – use the field at the top.

Picken Doubles

2-person Picken applications can join with other Picken room applications into groups of 2, 3, or 4 rooms if desired. Use the field at the top of the application to indicate which applications you would like to be joined with, if any. The advantage to this is that you may choose your rooms at the same time, but larger groups are not given priority over one-room applications. The lottery numbers of all students on joined applications will be averages to determine priority.

4-Person Apartments

While we have some 2- and 3-person apartments, the majority of our apartments are 4-person spaces. Please see below for more information about housing locations.

Choosing Where to Live

More specific details of each building are located on our Housing Options page.

Barker and Kresge

Barker and Kresge will house only first-year students and Residence Life staff.

Picken

Picken will continue to be co-ed by suite and alcohol-free and will be for second-year students. Picken Hall has 36 doubles and 4 triple rooms with suite-style accommodations, except for the lower level which shares a community restroom. Picken Hall also has a large basement lounge area as well as study area and a computer lab on the first floor.

Buxton

Buxton will continue to be co-ed by suite and alcohol-free. Buxton houses up to 134 second-year students in suite-style accommodations. Each unit features a large living room and a smaller, separate sleeping room. The units share the restroom with an adjoining room. Priority will be given to groups who sign up as suites. Suites will select their rooms first, followed by rooms not attached to another application.

Apartments

In all, the seven apartment buildings (Clinton, Colonial, Washington, Station Square, Hamilton, Detroit, and Weinman) are primarily 4-person apartments, but several 2-person and 3-person apartments do exist. (2/3 person apartment applications are due earlier than other applications, see above.) Station Square will both be a 24-hour quiet hour building and alcohol-free. Students who are found responsible for violating the alcohol-free or 24-hour quiet hours may be required to relocate for the community standards violation.

Planning to live off-campus?

All full-time unmarried traditional students are required to live on campus until or unless they petition to live off-campus and are approved. Petitions are automatically granted to those living at home with parents or guardians, those living with a dependent child, veterans, or those who are 24 or older. Permission to live off-campus for other unique circumstances are considered on a case-by-case basis by the Director of Residence Life. The petition form is available through your SC Connect under the “My Forms” tab. Living off-campus does lessen your “need” for financial aid reasons and could affect your financial aid. Please check with the Financial Assistance office about how living off-campus will affect you. Those who appear to “lend” their lottery number to an application knowing they intend to live off campus will be fined a minimum of $100.

Apartments

How Many Apartments Are There and Where Are They?

For 2025-2026:

Clinton Apartments: 26 4-person apartments, , 6 2-person apartments
Colonial Apartments: 8 4-person apartments, 4 2-person apartments that have 1 bedroom, 2 people and 2 3-person apartments
Detroit Apartments: 9 2-person apartments, 5 3-person apartments
Hamilton Apartments: 12 4-person apartments
Station Square Apartments: 22 4-person apartments, 1 2-person apartment
Washington Apartments: 11 4-person apartments, 1 2-person apartment
Weinman Apartments: 1 2-person apartments, 10 4-person apartments

Any questions can be directed to your Residence Life student or professional staff member!

Greek Houses

College-owned Greek Houses include Alpha Tau Omega (ATO), Kappa Kappa Gamma (KKG), Kappa Theta Psi (KTP), Lambda Chi Alpha (LXA), and Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE). All Greek chapters generally expect members to live in their chapter house (college-owned or not).

Lottery Numbers

In Spring 2025, lottery numbers will be generated randomly by an Excel random number generator.

Each random number will start within these ranges:

1-500 for rising seniors
1500-2000 for rising juniors
3000-3500 for rising sophomores.

Each residential student will be issued a random number by Residence Life based on their class standing by years spent at the institution, not credits completed (adjustments will be made for transfer students). There will be a 100-point deduction for students who have completed the Residence Life Experience Survey (RLES), totaling 100 points in deductions if both are completed. New students who failed to complete the on-line Safe Colleges Title IX training in the fall semester will have 200 points added. This new number becomes the Housing Lottery number used for housing purposes. Final lottery numbers are posted in Student Development on Tuesday, January 21st, and emailed to all students. If you are a commuter or part-time student you will not have a lottery number posted, but to request one, please email reslife@simpson.edu. Lottery numbers are non-transferable.

Lottery numbers are not used for students with certain accommodation needs, Theme Houses, or Greek houses.

Room applications (all regular room applications are the same) are available and online. Once you decide who you want to live with, fill out a Room Application and return it to Student Development (2nd floor of Kent) or mail it to “Housing” through the Simpson Mailroom. If all involved are off campus (i.e. study abroad or traveling for sports) at the time of the process, please email reslife@simpson.edu with the application with all involved included in the email to act as their signature. The Room Application allows you to choose a meal plan for the following year. All residential students are required to have a meal plan.

All Room Applications have the lottery numbers on it averaged, and then each application is ranked according to this average. After applications are due, all the rankings will be emailed . Some groups may not rank high enough for their first choice and may need to submit a second application with a new group.

Theme House Selection

For Fall 2025, Simpson is planning on offering 5 different theme house options for residential students. The houses are briefly described below, although more information is available in the theme house application.

901 N E St, Unit A: 6-8 people.
901 N E St, Unit B: 6-8 people.
903 N E St: 5 people. Currently the Performing Arts house.
705 N D St: 4 people. Currently the Kate Shelley Women & Gender Resource Center.
707 N D St: 5 people. Currently Carver Cultural Center.

The requirements to live in a theme house are explained in the applications. Applications for theme houses will be ready by early Spring 2025.

Applications are due to Student Development. If more than one group of students applies for a Theme House, interviews for theme houses will take place.

For any additional questions about Themed Houses, please contact Jessica Stormoen at jessica.stormoen@simpson.edu.