2025-26 Room Selection for First-year Residents

You will receive an email with your specific selection date and time before your selection date. After April 10, 2025, students may apply for housing and select their room in the same day.

Yes.  Once you complete your housing application, you will need to access the Roommates & Room menu in the Housing Portal to find a match with a roommate.  This will need to be completed to select a room together once room selection begins.  You can interact with other students now and lock in your roommate choice starting January 15^th.

As long as you have locked yourself in as roommates in the housing portal, whichever of you has the earliest selection date will be able to book you both in a room together. On selection day, only one person in each roommate pair needs to do the process.

Finding a good roommate match is very important!

After all, you're going to be sharing a single room for nine months. Students who aren't spending their energy on roommate conflicts can focus on classroom and overall college success.

Northwest allows incoming first-year students to buy out the 2nd bed in their room for an additional $825/semester. This is permitted in Dieterich and Millikan Halls only.

Any student who buys out their room will qualify to select their room on the first day of their applicant group.

For example, a November 1st applicant who buys out their room can select on April 1 as if they have a roommate and not wait until the next day.