For New Residential Students

DON'T FORGET to complete your medical paperwork by July 31st Required Medical Forms | Hood College.

New students will be assigned roommates and emailed their room assignments no later than July 31st. New first-year and transfer students will be assigned to Coblentz Hall, Smith Hall, Meyran Hall, and Shriner Hall. 

Email questions to residencelife@hood.edu.
 

Important Dates:

July 7

• Housing and Food Service Contract due
  • Access this electronic form within Self Service using your Hood College email username and password (provided to you within a week after paying your enrollment deposit).
  • This form contains questions about you so you can best be assigned to a room and with a roommate (or roommates as we have a few 3 and 4-person rooms)
  • Staff would love to match you with a roommate. However, if you have a preferred roommate, type their name on your form.
    • If you have already submitted your form and you later find a preferred roommate, you may edit your form prior to the July 8 deadline.
• Housing Accommodations Request Form due (if applicable)
  • A housing accommodations request form is required only for students requesting reasonable housing accommodations due to any of the following reasons: disabilities (medical, psychological, temporary, disability factors, non‐medical physical), gender, religious, or cultural.

July 31 (no later than)

• Your housing assignment and roommate assignment will be emailed to your Hood College email account. Download the Outlook application on your mobile device and be sure to make it a habit of checking your new email account to not miss important messages.
• Talk with your roommate and decide what items will be shared (mini-fridge, microwave, etc.). Click here for a detailed suggested list of items to bring (and not bring). Additionally, pack light for an easy move in and move out.

July 31

• Medical Forms are due (to FMH Tollhouse)
  • Maryland law requires all residential students to have the meningococcal vaccine or sign a waiver declining the vaccination.
  • To be able to move in, students must have this submitted their form.

August 18 (Move-In Day)

• Details regarding move-in will be sent to your hood email by July 31.

August 18 - 20

• New student orientation will begin after you move in. You will receive more information about orientation.