Please read carefully to plan for next year, get preferred housing, and stay on top of your University account.

The results of the Student Housing Undergraduate Draw have been posted outside each Housing Front Desk and will be released in Axess at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday, May 23, 2009.  

More upperclass students will be provided with premier housing in the form of singles or two-room doubles this year, due to the implementation of the Housing Master Plan.  These changes have moved several large residences into competition with the Row Houses for popularity.  Branner, Mirrielees, Toyon, Lagunita, Roble, and Crothers Singles had cut offs above several Row Houses.  The Row Houses and Co-ops split between first and second tier with a few moving into the third tier, which should alleviate concerns that no sophomores would be living on the Row. Toyon filled with very low second tier numbers, resulting in the house being completely filled with sophomores.  The test program for Xanadu and Crothers where students could rank individual room types appears to have been very popular, and will be investigated as an addition to the entire Draw for next year.  Cut-off information for individual residences and other Draw statistics are available online.

An additional 86 upperclass students entered the Draw this year for a total of 4084 students who applied for housing for the 2009-10 academic year.  Even with the extra 111 spaces provided by the Housing Master Plan, there were 89 guaranteed students unassigned.  This is down from last year and it is felt that the majority of these students will be placed via the waiting list or in walk-in rounds over the summer.

Under the guaranteed housing policy, all of the guaranteed students who have not yet been assigned to specific residences will be offered housing by the end of the first week of Autumn Quarter.  Additional spaces become available over the summer as students change their enrollment and housing plans, or alternate solutions will be offered.  Unassigned students should join the Autumn Waiting List in Axess by July 5, 2009.  Students who received an assignment, but wish to be reassigned, should not cancel their current assignment, but can request to be reassigned via the Autumn Waiting List in Axess.

Residents who have received assignments do not need to accept the assignment in Axess. By signing the Residence Agreement, you have already accepted your housing assignment.  After being assigned to a residence, you will need to participate in the in-house draw to identify a roommate and select a room.  Please see In-house Draw Procedure 2009-10 for detailed guidelines, and the Schedule of Room Assignment Meetings for meeting information.

Statistics on the outcome of this year’s Draw are available online.

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• Will be set up in White Plaza during the lunch hour from 11:30 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. on 3 days:
  
  • Monday, April 13
  • Wednesday, April 22
  • Friday, May 1
  • Tuesday, May 5
• Will be set up in each Freshman Dining hall from
  11:30 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. on the following dates:
  
  • Friday, April 17 at Florence Moore Dining
  • Monday, April 27 at Stern Dining
  • Wednesday, April 29 at Lagunita Dining
  • Monday, May 4 at Wilbur Dining
  • Wednesday, May 6 at Ricker Dining
  • Thursday, May 7 at
    Florence Moore Dining
  • Friday, May 8 at Branner Dining

• Sunday, May 3, 7:00 p.m.  in
  Tresidder Union Cypress Room

• Will be open for students who have last minute questions on May 10, 2009 (1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.).
• Staff will be available to attend house meetings in advance of the draw upon request to answer any draw questions and present draw changes for the coming year.

Printable brochure detailing the Draw 2009 changes and process, Axess Worksheet included.

The Executive Summary of the Draw Review Task Force recommendations is available for review.

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1. Application Deadline: Undergraduate Students – drawing in a group or by themselves – have one application deadline: May 10, 2009 at 6:00 p.m.
2. List Every Residence: Students will be able to list every undergraduate residence they qualify for on their draw applications. This eliminates the need for students to get their draw numbers before submitting their final list of choices.
3. Draw numbers will no longer be announced in advance of the draw, and historical draw cut-off numbers will no longer be published.
4. Tier System: Students will choose amongst 3 Tiers of Draw numbers when applying for undergraduate housing:
   
   • Tier one (1 to 1000) can be selected at most once.
   • Tier three (2001 to 3000) must be selected at least once in the three years a student draws for housing.
5. Mixed-gender Draw groups can now stay together through the use of group retention.
6. Students will be able to apply for both a residence and room type in two undergraduate residences.
   
   • Students applying for Crothers will be able to apply for singles and one- room doubles.
   • Students applying for Xanadu will be able to apply for singles, one-room doubles, two-room doubles, one-room triples, two- to three-room triples, and one- to three-room quads. (The specific rooms within these room types will be assigned at the in-house draw.)

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1. Arroyo House in Wilbur Hall, and Casa Naranja in Lagunita Court will no longer be Focus houses.
2. Branner Hall will become a public service Focus house.
3. Students will no longer need to earn priorities for Cooperative Houses, Theme Houses or Focus Houses. (All students who meet the pre-requisites for these residences and agree to meet the program requirements for the house may apply for these residences. See Requirements for Listing Theme Houses, Focus Houses, or Co-Ops on Draw Applications).
4. All Cooperative, Theme, and Focus Houses have the option to assign a core group of people to their houses for the coming year.
   
   • Applications for pre-assignment are due to Residential Education on April 22.
   • Any student not selected for pre-assignment can still list the house on their Draw applications as long as they meet the pre-requisites and agree to meet the program requirements for the house.
5. Any student assigned to a Cooperative, Theme, or Focus house who does not meet the pre-requisites of the house will have their assignment cancelled and will need to participate in the next assignment round in order to get housing.

Several undergraduate residences will be reconfigured this year in conjunction with the Housing Master Plan. Occupancy of many residences has been reduced, and several residences will experience changes in the mix of students assigned to them.

Residence Halls

Row
Grove Lasuen will become the Row Administrative Center and will no longer house students. Additional spaces will be added to Grove Mayfield where the Row Residential Education office is now located.

Theme Houses
The Ethnic Theme Houses in Casa Zapata and Okada will have their occupancy reduced in order to create more singles for the upperclass students assigned to the residence.

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Permanent Program
The Gender-neutral Pilot project has been made permanent. The Suites in Governor’s Corner and the Enchanted Broccoli Forest Cooperative House have been added for the coming year.

Mixed-gender Groups
The Draw program now allows mixed-gender groups to stay together through the use of group retention. Students must still list the same residences in the same order and activate group retention in order to be kept together.

All Students – Flat Rent Price
In order to help students better plan their budgets for each quarter, we are moving to flat pricing for rent. Students will pay the same rent for Autumn, Winter, and Spring Quarters. (Dining charges will still vary with the length of the quarter.)

Co-ops, Self-ops, and Greeks – Rent & Dining charges in Axess
Students living in Co-ops, Self-ops and Greek houses will now be charged for both rent and dining through their Axess billing statement.

Mirrielees – New Meal Plan Option
Stanford Dining is offering a new meal plan option for students living in Mirrielees. The Mirrielees Apartment Meal Plan Option will include 5 All-You-Care-To-Eat Meals/wk & $150 Cardinal Dollars/Year, for an annual cost of $2199. Students assigned to Mirrielees for Autumn Quarter can sign up for this plan after their Draw assignments are announced in Axess.

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Online Updates
Current information and updates are available on the Construction and Renovation page.

Currently
No undergraduate residences are scheduled to be down for Capital Improvement during the 2009-10 academic year.

Future Noise
New construction, other major projects, and unforeseen repair projects could cause increased noise around nearby residences and throughout housing areas.

Residence Impact
Continual work may occur in and around your residence prior to, and up to a year after, major construction projects. (While all possible measures will be taken to minimize the impact, any student moving into these areas should be prepared to accept the unavoidable aspects of life in a neighborhood under construction.)

The Law School Academic Building Project, slated to start this summer and run throughout the 2009-10 academic year, will be taking place directly behind these houses.  For more information on this project, please visit:  http://lbre.stanford.edu/dpm/law_school_building