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Apartment Selection Timeline
| Date & Time | Apartment Selection Process & Timeline |
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| February 3, 2025 10 a.m. CST |
All students: The housing portal opens to begin next year's housing application process. Current First-year Students, Incoming Transfer/Law/Grad Students, and Current Students Not Living on Campus:
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| February 3-5, 2025 10 a.m. CST |
Claim Your Same Space Current Sophomores and Above Living in ECA, WCA and Nicholson Gateway: Secure your exact same room in your apartment and submit nonrefundable prepayment. After this time, your room can be selected by other students. Current First-year Students Living in ECA or WCA: Your apartment is not eligible for renewal. Complete a 2025-26 housing application February 3-24, 2025, to be eligible for an apartment, as space is available. |
| February 6-7, 2025 10 a.m. CST |
If you secured your room February 3-5, you can place members of your preferred roommate group into open rooms in the apartment. |
| February 11, 2025 at 10 a.m. CST - February 14, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. |
Same Community Selection Current Sophomores and Above Living in ECA or WCA and Nicholson Gateway: Select a different apartment in your same apartment community and place members of your preferred roommate group into open rooms.
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| February 18 at 10 a.m. CST - February 21, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. |
Different Community Selection Current Sophomores and Above Living in ECA or WCA and Nicholson Gateway: Select any available apartment in East Campus, West Campus, or Nicholson Gateway Apartments and place members of your preferred roommate group into open apartment rooms. This is the first opportunity for current and eligible ECA and WCA residents to select an apartment in Nicholson Gateway Apartments. |
| February 24, 2025 |
Priority Application Date for Current First-year Students, Incoming Transfer/Law/Grad Students, and Current Students Not Living on Campus: Submit the 2025-26 housing application, apartment preferences, and roommate preferences by February 24, 2025. The assignments team will use that information offer apartments February 25-July 31, 2025, as space become available. What's available, keeping roommate groups together, and application date all factor into what is offered. Please monitor your LSU email account daily. |
| March 10, 2025 10 a.m. CST |
Current Sophomores and Above Living in ECA, WCA and Nicholson Gateway: Students who secured an apartment for next year can submit their preferred apartment styles on the apartment interest list. The assignments team will use this list and information to offer apartment spaces as they become available through consolidations and cancellations. Only submit your preferences once. If you have preferred roommates, you should all join the interest list and indicate each other as preferred roommates on the form. |
The Fine Print
Current students begin the on-campus apartment selection process for the next academic year in February. A $250 nonrefundable prepayment is required to secure an apartment space.
Roommates
You can create a preferred roommate group in the housing portal prior to apartment selection. If there are available rooms in the apartment you choose, you can place friends from your preferred roommate group into those available rooms in your apartment.
Roommates must submit the $250 nonrefundable prepayment in the housing portal to complete the process and secure the space.
You can only place roommates in your apartment who appear in your preferred roommate group in the online housing portal. It is the group leader's responsibility to assign the group members.
Being in a roommate group does not guarantee you to be roommates.
Apartment/Room Changes
Once you secure an apartment space online and submit the $250 nonrefundable prepayment, you will have to contact our room assignments staff to make any changes to your room/apartment assignment.
A $250 nonrefundable prepayment is required to secure your apartment for the next year.
Payment must be made with a credit or debit card in the online housing portal within 48 hours of apartment/room reservation. After 48 hours, reservations will be purged to make spaces available to other students.
The entire $250 will be applied toward the fall fee bill. However, those that cancel their assignment will forfeit the entire $250, and are subject to the cancellation fee schedule.
Scholarship Payment
Students who use scholarship money for their housing will need to submit the nonrefundable prepayment during the online renewal process with a credit or debit card. The prepayment will not affect the amount covered by scholarship. Once the scholarship funds are applied to the student’s fee bill, all or some some of the housing charge will be paid (depending on the scholarship amount), and any overage in the student account will be refunded to the student’s account.
Pelican Promise
If you have the Pelican Promise award, you do not have to submit the $250 prepayment at the time of apartment selection. The prepayment is deferred to your fall fee bill.
Students who have paid the prepayment to reserve an apartment space and decide to cancel their fall reservation will forfeit the $250 nonrefundable prepayment and are subject to cancellation penalties.
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