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Housing
Guarantee
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Guarantee Eligibility
Using a Guaranteed Year
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Housing Guarantee
The Guaranteed Housing Plan was established to ensure that
the limited supply of housing is predictably and equitably
allocated among all students. The basic mechanism of the plan
is the housing guarantee, which represents a pledge
of University housing. It applies to all University housing,
including residential fraternities and sororities. Under the
plan, residential fraternities and sororities assume the responsibility
of providing guaranteed housing to their pledges and members
based on their Housing Preference Policy (HPP).
A guarantee constitutes a pledge of housing only if you apply for undergraduate housing by the Waiting List deadlines for Autumn, Winter, or Spring Quarter and are willing to live in any residence for which you are eligible. Qualified undergraduate students applying to graduate housing (students with children or undergraduate couples without children) are guaranteed housing during the 2008-09 academic year only if they apply by May 11, 2008 and are willing to live in any residence for which they are eligible. Students must select "assign me to any residence for which
I am eligible" as their final choice on their application
in the Draw or Waiting List in order to be guaranteed an assignment by the
end of the first week of classes for any given quarter. If you do not select this on any application you lose your guarantee for the year. Applying by the May 4, 2008 deadline gives students a random application number which provides them with a better position on the Waiting List than students that apply after May 4, 2008. A guarantee does not ensure assignment to a specific residence or assignment in the first round of assignments.
A significant number of guaranteed students will not be
assigned to housing in the Draw or on the Waiting List for
a given quarter, but they are ensured assignment during the first
week of classes if not before. In the event that there is not enough space
in undergraduate residences to accommodate all guaranteed
students, some undergraduate students may be assigned to
vacancies in graduate residences or University-assigned,
off-campus complexes.
Returning from a Stanford Off-Campus
Program in Winter or Spring Quarter
Students who attend an official Stanford off-campus program
in the Autumn and/or Winter Quarters and who return to
campus in the Winter or Spring will be considered to be
moving from one category of Stanford housing to another. As such, they will be given preference for housing in the
Winter Quarter and Spring Quarter Waiting Lists. In order to receive this
priority, students will need to apply for housing by the Waiting List deadline for the quarter they are returning, and they will need to indicate that they are willing
to live anywhere. If students meet these requirements, they
will be given assignment priority before students who
have guaranteed housing status but are not attending
an official Stanford program. Note that students in the
latter group retain their guarantee of housing and will
still be assigned in the Winter- or Spring Waiting List or
Walk-in rounds. (Note that this priority will not
be considered at Walk-ins. Students who have been attending
an official Stanford program will be included on the Walk-in
position list in Draw or sequential number
order with guaranteed status students).
Late Applicants
Students whose applications are received after the Draw
deadline (May 4, 2008 at 6:00 p.m.) will automatically be considered for an assignment
in the Waiting List round. Undergraduate single students maintain their guarantee status if they apply by the Waiting List deadline for Autumn, Winter, or Spring Quarter. Undergraduate students applying for graduate housing are guaranteed housing only through the Draw application deadline of May 11, 2008. Students with guarantee
years remaining will be considered for an assignment before
students who have utilized all of their guarantee years,
but they are no longer guaranteed housing.
Guarantee Eligibility
Freshmen. The freshman residence requirement mandates that
one guaranteed year applies to the freshman year. Undergraduates
are
entitled to four years of guaranteed housing, including their freshman year.
Transfer Students. Transfer students receive
two or three guaranteed years based on their entering class
standing as determined by their final transfer credit evaluation
(including any changes made after enrolling for the academic
year). Transfer students entering with sophomore class standing
(less than 85 transfer units accepted for Stanford credit)
receive three guaranteed years; those who enter as juniors
(at least 85 transfer units accepted for Stanford credit)
receive two guaranteed years.
Using A Guaranteed Year
One guaranteed year represents three consecutive quarters --
Autumn through Spring -- of a single academic year. A guarantee
cannot be partially used. Your decision to leave the residence
system mid-year after receiving an assignment, or to postpone
assignment until Winter or Spring Quarter, is a voluntary
forfeiture of those quarters of housing. If you live in
University housing Autumn Quarter and you go overseas or stop
out Winter Quarter, your guarantee remains effective for Spring
Quarter if you join the Waiting List by the deadline and you
have not refused a housing assignment.
If you have any guarantee years remaining, you automatically
use one when you apply for University-assigned housing or
you live in a fraternity or sorority. Students who receive
an exempt housing assignment, including all residence staff,
house officers, students with disability/medical accommodations,
and special case assignments, also automatically use a guaranteed
year.
If you apply for housing but you are not assigned, you
are expected to join the Waiting List and/or attend Walk-ins
(as applicable) in order to receive housing. If you decide
to live off campus, you are still considered to have used
a guaranteed year.
If you cancel a housing application or assignment, or
you do not move into your residence (including a fraternity
or sorority), you forfeit a year of guaranteed housing.
If you decide to stop out prior to taking occupancy in your
assigned residence, you may petition at Housing Assignments to have your guarantee reinstated for a later quarter
or academic year. (If you are returning for a later quarter
in the same academic year, you may also petition to retain
your original draw number). Petitions to have guaranteed
and or preferred years reinstated must be received by Housing Assignments by the deadline to join the Waiting
List for the quarter for which you are applying (October
24, 2008 for Winter Quarter and February 6, 2009 for Spring
Quarter).
Guaranteed/Preferred Year Information in Axess.
You can check how many guaranteed- or preferred years you
have remaining by using the "view guaranteed/preferred year"
function in Axess.
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