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First-Year Student Application

2026-2027 Incoming First Year Housing Application

Are you Bronco Bound? We are happy you arrived at your destination!

Now that you've had a chance to Discover On-Campus Living at SCU, it's time to begin your application! Don't wait and make sure to complete your housing application via your personalized housing portal today. This application is newly admitted students to apply for Housing for the upcoming academic year. 

  • Application Opens: Wednesday, January 21, 2026
  • Preferred Application Period Closes: Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Students who submit their application after Wednesday, May 6, students will apply via the rolling application process and will be manually placed based on available space. 

As a reminder, there is a residency requirement for all first-year students. Information on the Residency Requirement status review process will be send to your scu email address once the form becomes available in your Housing Portal. 

First-year students reside within one of the eight Residential Learning Communities. Prior to beginning your application, please explore each of the RLCs so you are well informed when listing your RLC preferences. Below you'll find a chart of the various room types within each residence hall/RLC. 

First-Year Student Living Options Chart
Standard Double Rooms Suite Doubles & Singles Mini-Suite Doubles, Mini-Suite Triples Suite Triples
(room + bath)
Extended Triples
Campisi Hall - Magis RLC Casa Italiana - da Vinci RLC (only suite doubles; no suite singles, Design Singles) Graham Hall (Alpha RLC) Swig Hall - Cyphi RLC Dunne Hall - Modern Perspectives RLC 
Dunne Hall - Modern Perspectives RLC Sobrato Hall - Loyola RLC (suite doubles & suite singles) Finn Hall (Cura RLC)  McLaughlin-Walsh Hall - Unity RLC  
McLaughlin-Walsh Hall - Unity RLC        
Sanfilippo Hall - Magis RLC        
Swig Hall - CyPhi RLC        

RLC preferences are extracted from applications and a placement into one of your preferences is made. Additional factors that influence RLC preference placements include:

Honors Program: University Honors Program students will be placed in one of the following RLCs:  Alpha & Graham Hall, da Vinci & Casa Italiana, Modern Perspectives @ Dunne Hall, or Unity @ McLaughlin-Walsh.  

You'll learn your RLC placement in July, when you attend your Orientation, and specific room assignment in early August. Move-in information will also be available in early August.   

  1. Before beginning your application, you'll want a solid understanding of each of SCU's 8 Residential Learning Communities and how you will rank each in order of your most preferred RLCs in rank order.  
  2. You will need access to the Internet; we have found Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox are the optimal browsers to use when completing your housing application. 
  3. A $500 pre-payment deposit; deposits can ONLY be paid using a debit or credit card. Waivers for the pre-payment deposit are not available. 
  4. If you need to you can begin your application, save it, and come back to it at a later date. However, don't forget to submit it! 
  5. Make sure to submit your application once you are sure about the answers you have provided, as changes cannot be made once you submit your application.
  6. Looking to connect with a roommate? Both roommates can send an email to housing@scu.edu requesting each other as roommates.

The Incoming First Year Housing Application is available on your Housing Portal via MySCU

For more information on how to set up your Housing Portal and complete the Incoming First Year Application, please reference the Step-by-Step Guide here: Step-by-Step: IFY Portal & Application

Housing Portal