Hello Everyone,
I am writing today to provide instructions on how to submit a roommate matching survey.
If you are receiving this but you no longer need a room on campus, please skip Sections A, B and C and scroll down to Section D at the bottom of this e-mail. Please read Section D and follow the directions to let us know you are no longer planning to live on campus.
If you DO want to live on campus, read sections A and B in their entirety.
A. The Residence Hall License and Housing Key.
Each student living on campus must submit a Residence Hall License. The Residence Hall License is an agreement that outlines the policies and procedures each student living on campus must adhere to.
The Housing Key is a five-digit code that identifies you for the room and roommate assignment process.
To submit the License and get a Housing Key, click the following link and follow the instructions:
Section B - The Roommate Matching Survey
The Roommate Matching Survey can be completed starting at 12pm this Thursday, July 8th. You will have until 9am on August 1st to complete the survey, and/or change your answers after completing it.
Instructions for submitting the roommate matching survey can be downloaded by clicking the link below. Though the survey cannot be completed before Thursday, you can read the instuctions in the next couple of days so you know what to do when the time comes.
Please be advised that both the Residence Hall License and the survey must be submitted by 9am on August 1st, 2021.
If you have already read our previous email which included information about the room and roommate assignment process, you do not need to read the rest of this email.
If you have not received a previous email from us, or have not read it, please read section C below.
Section C - Room Assignment and General Housing InformationRoommate Assignments- If you already know another incoming transfer or first-year student, or you meet someone during Summer Orientation, or on social media, you can request them as a roommate by entering their Housing Key on the roommate matching survey. As long as you both request each other on your individual surveys, you will be guaranteed a room together.
- If you know someone who was a New Paltz student this past semester (Spring 2021), and who will be living on campus again in Fall 2021 that wants you as a roommate or suitemate, give them your Housing Key now. They can email us at reslife@newpaltz.edu now, giving us your name and Housing Key and letting us know that they would like to request you as a roommate or suitemate. Once they request you, we will place you in their room or suite.
- If you do not know or meet anyone specific, we will use the answers you provide in the survey to match you up with another transfer that has similar living habits.
Room assignments
You will have the opportunity to choose whether you wish to be placed in a corridor or suite room. Using that information, we will match you with someone that requested the same type of room.
Once the roommate matching process is completed, (whether you requested a specific person, or whether we matched you with someone), roommate pairs will be placed in rooms together. The specific building each pair gets placed in will be chosen at random. There are three exceptions to this:
- Transfers who apply for and are accepted into the Transfer Living Learning Community will be assigned roommates who are also part of the LLC. You can read information about the Transfer here:
Transfer Living-Learning Community
- Students who have applied for and have been approved for disability-based housing accommodations.
- Students that need to stay on campus during winter and/or spring break must live in specific buildings as there are only four buildings that stay open during the breaks. This includes athletes who will play on teams that have games and/or practices during the breaks, as well as other students that cannot go home during either or both breaks.
All transfer students will receive an email with their room and roommate assignments on August 10th. To be clear, you are guaranteed a room, but you will receive your building and room assignment on August 10th.
General Housing Information
As a part of the online Orientation Modules all new students must complete, there is a Powerpoint presentation with general housing information. Several of the pages/slides describe of the types of rooms we have available on campus and include links to diagrams depicting the room layouts. If you have not seen the Orientation Module, please click here:
D. If you no longer plan to attend SUNY New Paltz or if you want to live off-campus.If you are no longer attending SUNY New Paltz, e-mail us at reslife@newpaltz.edu and CC the Admissions Office at admissions@newpaltz.edu ASAP to let us know that you will no longer be attending.
If you plan to take classes at New Paltz but are no longer interested in living on campus, email only Residence Life at reslife@newpaltz.edu to let us know. Bear in mind that if you attend New Paltz, but choose to live off-campus, you may forfeit your ability to live on campus in the future. Students that choose to live off-campus can apply for housing in future semesters, but we cannot always guarantee that we will have space to house them.
In your cancelation email, please answer the following questions:
- What is your student ID number? (It is the number that starts with N followed by eight digits). If you do not yet have your Banner ID, include your New Paltz admission status portal student ID number, which was included in your acceptance materials.
- Are you an incoming first or transfer student?
- Do you already have a room assignment? If yes, tell us the building and room you were assigned to.
- Please tell us for which of the following reasons you are canceling:
- Commuting from home
- Renting a house/apt off campus.
- No longer attending/withdrawing from New Paltz
- Other (please specify)
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