To receive a housing assignment at Stanford University, upper-class undergraduate students (sophomores, juniors, and seniors) should submit an application online through Axess each year. For an overview of the undergraduate draw process, a copy of our “Undergraduate Draw 101” presentation is available for download. The brochure, “Apply for Undergraduate Housing 2010-11,” which includes details of the process, important deadlines, and a worksheet for ranking building and room-type preferences, is also available.

Other Students

• Incoming freshmen and transfer students: You will apply for housing as part of the Approaching Stanford application process after you receive the guidebook mailed to you in May.
• Co-terminal students: Please check your guarantee status; you will need to apply for Graduate Housing if you have already applied for undergraduate housing for 4 years.

Couples without Children and Students with Children

• If you need couples housing or family housing you will need to apply in person through the Housing Assignment Office

The online application is located on Axess—Stanford’s online student information system. To have the greatest chance of getting your preferred residence, please read all the instructions on our website (e.g. Assignment Process and Residence Chart). When you’re ready and know all your options, please go to Application Process for instructions.

Student Housing makes the initial, first-round assignments through a process based on randomly generated Draw numbers. In subsequent rounds the numbers are assigned sequentially based on the date you apply. Beginning in May there are three rounds of assignments.

• Round 1: The Draw
• Round 2: Waitlists
• Round 3: Walk-ins

Round 1 is for students who applied by the May deadline. After the first round, Autumn assignments are announced. For Winter- or Spring Quarter housing, students who applied by the May deadline will still receive a first-round number. For a complete explanation, please read the Assignment Process pages.