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Outside of the preferred application deadlines for Fall Quarter, a rolling housing application will be available for all students. Housing assignments will be made based on available space and offered in the order applications are received.

All students applying for a new housing assignment starting in the Winter or Spring Quarters will submit the general rolling application. 

Looking to apply for Winter and or Spring Housing for the 2025-2026 Academic year but currently do not live on campus?

Please send us an email to housing@scu.edu. In your email please be sure to include your first and last name, student ID number and the dates in which you are looking for housing. Our assignments team will get back to you within 2 business days and provide you with a additional information. Please keep in mind that for all late applications for Winter and Spring 2026, housing options and availability is limited.

Undergraduates

The 2025 summer session housing application will become available via your Housing Portal on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. The 2025 summer application is due Wednesday, April 30, 2025. The late application will open on May 7, for any last minute applicants. Undergraduate Summer Applicants will be notified about their summer housing by May 28, 2025. 

Please keep in mind there are limited 2025 Undergraduate Summer Session housing for dates later in the summer session.

Priority Groups

Summer housing at SCU is offered to students in the following descending priority order. Students with Priority 1 are placed within summer housing first, and the following priority groups are assigned in descending order until space is no longer available. Due to limited space within summer housing, an application for summer housing does not guarantee an assignment for the summer nor does an application guarantee a specific room type. 

Summer Residence & Room Placement

For Summer 2025, Sobrato Hall will serve as the summer residence building for students living on-campus. 

Summer housing placement is shaped by operational requirements necessary to manage the brief transition periods and support timely room turnovers between the Spring, Summer, and Fall quarters. To streamline these transitions, student assignments will generally follow these priorities:

• Current residents will likely remain in their Spring assignment if it is located within the designated summer housing area.
• Students with a booking start date in June will likely be grouped based on their check-out date.
• Students with a booking start date in July or August will likely be grouped by check-in date.

Roommate requests will be accommodated when feasible, but they are considered secondary to operational placement priorities.

Occupancy Dates

OCCUPANCY DATES - FOR APPLICATIONS SUBMITTED BY April 30, 2025. 

Current On-Campus Students: Current on-campus residents will be assigned to Sobrato Hall for Summer 2025 Housing and will transition from their academic year residential space beginning on Monday, June 16, 2025, at 9:00AM.

Current Off-Campus Students: Summer school residents who do not currently reside on-campus will move into Sobrato Hall on Monday, June 16, 2025 beginning at 9:00AM.

Summer residents are only eligible to reside within campus housing during the summer term(s) for which they are enrolled in for summer session courses, internships, or only during the time of their on-campus work commitment. Therefore, summer session residents will also move into Sobrato Hall at later dates during the summer months. These specific occupancy dates will be communicated accordingly to applicable summer session students.

Please note: In order to apply for on-campus summer housing, residents must stay a minimum of 4 consecutive weeks. Students staying less than 4 weeks will not be eligible for on-campus summer housing.

Summer Housing is NOT available after Thursday, September 4, 2025, as Sobrato Hall must undergo preparations for the 2025-2026 academic year. Unfortunately, no exceptions are made to allow students to remain within Sobrato Hall beyond Thursday, September 4, 2025.

Summer 2026 Weekly Rates

Summer housing residents are billed utilizing a weekly rate. The week begins on Monday and ends on Sunday. 

To bridge housing between summer and the subsequent academic year, residents must have submitted a housing application for the upcoming academic year and must remain in the same assigned space. At least 50% of the household must be eligible and approved to bridge the summer in order for the apartment to remain occupied. If a student cancels their subsequent academic-year housing contract, their Summer Bridge approval will be cancelled as well.

To bridge housing between summer and the subsequent academic year, residents must have submitted a housing application for the upcoming academic year and must remain in the same assigned space. If a student cancels their subsequent academic-year housing contract, their Summer Bridge approval will be cancelled as well.

Rising sophomores who apply by the preferred deadline will participate in a room selection process:

• Returners: Students remaining in the same RLC will select housing within their current RLC.

• Non-Returners: Students changing RLCs will participate in the general room selection process.

Rising juniors and seniors who apply by the preferred deadline will participate in a general room selection process. There is no returner or non-returner distinction for this group.

Rising juniors and seniors applying to live in a Neighborhood Unit will select their preferred Neighborhood Unit based on household size and the size of their roommate group.

Students who have an approved housing accommodation with the Office of Accessible Education will be contacted to set up an appointment with a Housing Assignments staff member, in order to select their room. You will not need to go through the Room Selection Process, even if you receive a room selection date and time. Please contact housing@scu.edu or call (408) 554-4900 with any questions.

Please keep in mind that your approved housing accommodation only pertains to you and does not extend to roommates. If you would rather go through the Room Selection Process with your group, this is possible, but you would forfeit your approved housing accommodation. 

Please note, housing accommodations may become void if the selected housing preferences on your housing application contradict the nature of the approved housing accommodation(s) and/or if you apply for housing as part of a group. A group is defined as a student requesting to live with one or more room/suite mates.

I have a housing accommodation through the Office of Accessible Education. How does this affect my application and selection process?

• If you go through the application and room selection process as an individual, you will be notified by the Housing Office of next steps. 
• If you opt to go through the application and room selection process with a group, you waive your housing accommodation. As a reminder, your approved accommodation applies only to you.

When are the application dates?

• 2026-2027 Freshmen Early Decision application opens Monday, January 5, 2026 at 9:00AM, and is due Wednesday, March 25, 2026 at 5:00PM
• 2026-2027 Freshmen General application opens Wednesday, January 21, 2026 at 9:00AM, and is due Wednesday, May 20, 2026 at 5:00PM
• 2026-2027 Sophomore application opens Wednesday, January 21, 2026 at 9:00AM, and is due Wednesday, February 11, 2026 at 5:00PM
• 2026-2027 NU New application opens Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 9:00AM, and is due January 14, 2026 at 5:00PM
• 2026-2027 University Villas Junior/Senior application opens Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 9:00AM, and is due Wednesday, February 11, 2026 at 5:00PM 
• We will accept applications after the submission deadlines, but late applicants will not go through the room selection process. Late applicants will be waitlisted and placed once space is available. The late housing application for sophomores, juniors, and seniors will re-open on March 26, 2025 at 9:00AM.

How will Room Selection be organized?

• For sophomores:
• Those returning to their current (2025-2026) RLC will have priority to return. Returners will participate in the Returner Room Selection process for their respective RLC. Residents looking to return to their RLC will be organized based on a random lottery number. Returners going through as Individuals will receive their own lottery number. Returners in a group will have their lottery numbers averaged out.
• Students who would like to move out of their current RLC, will go through the Open Room Selection process, where they will see all spaces available. Please keep in mind that spaces available will depend on the spaces not reserved by returners. Historically, Loyola/Sobrato, Cura/Finn, and Alpha/Graham have had a very large percentage of returning students, and we anticipate having only a handful of spaces available for new sophomore residents. Individuals will receive their own lottery number. Groups will have their lottery numbers averaged out.
• For juniors and seniors who applied to live in University Villas, all students will participate in the Open Room Selection process. Lottery numbers will be assigned randomly, which will decide in what order each student will select a space. Individuals will receive their own lottery number. Groups will have their lottery numbers averaged out.
• Groups of 3-6 will have priority to select from 4-bedroom apartments in University Villas. NOTE: 4-bedroom apartments in University Villas will be six person units. 4 and 5 person units will not be available.
• Individual students or students in groups of 2 will have priority to select from 2-bedroom apartments in University Villas and may select from vacant spots that have not been filled in larger 4 bedroom units.  

Can my group be considered a returner group and have priority to return to our RLC?

Yes, if every member of your group currently resides in that RLC then the group is considered a returning group and will have priority to select. Please keep in mind that if 1 member of the group is not from that RLC, the entire group is then considered a non-returner group. (Ex: all 4 group members live in Cura RLC and want to return to Cura RLC, this group is a returner group BUT if 1 of those 4 members is from Cyphi while the other 3 are from Cura, the group is considered non-returners)

What is a group leader?

The group leader must make the group profile in the application before other members can join. The group leader can assign group members during room selection. Regardless of group affiliation, individuals within the group may assign themselves during room selection.

What if my group leader cancels their application before room selection?

If a group leader cancels their application, email housing@scu.edu to have the group leader changed and copy all other members of the group by the application deadline. No group change requests will be approved after the deadline.

I applied for a room change to a different community. Does this impact my application for 2026-2027? 

Priority will be given to those returning to the same community, prior to students who have selected the non-returner route. If your room change is complete by the 2026-2027 application deadline for your respective class, then you would be considered a returner to the new community. 

Which communities will have triple rooms available to Sophomores, Juniors & Seniors? (Please note there is limited availability for triple rooms.)

Please refer to the respective web page for either Sophomores or Juniors & Seniors to learn more about room types available.

Am I required to have a dining plan?

All residents are required to have a dining plan. Neighborhood Unit residents will be assigned the Apartment Resident Dining plan. 

Are single gender floors available?

We offer an all female wing on the first floor of Campisi and Sanfilippo, as well an all male wing on also on the first floor of Campisi and Sanfilippo which houses the Magis RLC. Single gender floors will also be available on the first floor of Swig/CyPhi.

Is there a gender inclusive housing option?

For the 2026-2027 academic year, we will be offering a gender inclusive housing option in McLaughlin-Walsh and Nobili (Unity RLC). Students who indicated an interest to live in the new Gender Inclusive Housing Community (GIHC) on their housing application will receive additional information on how to select their space for the 2026-2027 academic year.

How do I make changes to my application?

• You can make changes to your application prior to submitting your application. No changes can be made after the published deadlines.
• If you have submitted your application, you may request changes by emailing housing@scu.edu until your respective class's application deadline. Any requests made after that deadline will be denied. 

I applied after the published deadline, what do I do now?

• Since you submitted your application after the deadline, you will be placed on a waitlist and assigned manually, depending on available space. Keep in mind you will not be part of a group and will not receive a room selection date and time, and will not be placed with your requested group.
• If you joined a group prior to the submission deadline but submitted your application after the deadline, your group leader WILL NOT be able to place you in a space during their room selection appointment. Email housing@scu.edu to be removed from the room selection group to avoid any issues for your group during room selection.

First- and second- year students are required to live on campus and will be assigned to a space prior to the beginning of the Fall Quarter (as long as they have been accepted and matriculated). Students who do not apply for housing prior to the preferred application deadline for their application period will have the opportunity to apply via the rolling application and will be placed based on available space. 

Housing for Juniors, Seniors, and Graduate & Law students is limited and is likely to become fully occupied. We recommend applying within the preferred application periods to secure housing on campus. Should space not be immediately available, students will be placed on a waitlist and be assigned based on their application date and time once space becomes available.