Room Selection for Current Students

Students should review room and meal plan rates with parents or others helping to pay. Students applying to live in Blazer Hall especially need to review this information with family members as the cost is higher than previous rates. If receiving financial aid restrictive with regards to room and board, check with staff in the Office of Financial Aid.

Room Rates

Single: $4,700 per semester
Single with bathroom: $5,000 per semester

Double: $4,200 per semester
Double with bathroom: $4,550 per semester

Triple: $3,850 per semester
Triple with bathroom: $4,200 per semester 

Quad: $3,500 per semester

Semi-suite: $5,100 per semester
Suite: $5250 per semester 

Meal Plan Information and Rates

The All Access Meal Plan costs $3,900 per semester and includes 100 flex dollars for the semester and 5 meal exchanges per week at The Blazer. The All Access meal plan allows students unlimited entrance to the Coblentz Dining Hall throughout the day while open. Students can stop by for a snack, a meal or just to visit friends whenever and as often as they like.

The 10 Meal Plan costs $3,500 per semester and includes 200 flex dollars for the semester and 3 meal exchanges per week at The Blazer.

The Commuter meal plan costs $1,100 per semester and includes 50 block (meals per semester), $400 in flex dollars for the semester, and unlimited meal exchanges. Only residents in the leased duplexes off campus may waive a meal plan or select a Commuter Meal Plan, and must indicate this on their specialized application.

Any current residential student requesting an exception to the residency requirement, must complete an Exemption Application. This includes seniors (those with 87 credits or more by May, 16, 2025) not wanting to live on campus. The application is available here.  

Students are not considered exempt from the residency requirement, until they receive an approval notification from Residence Life. The only valid exceptions to the residency requirement that students must meet in order to be considered exempt are the following: 

• The student is 23 years of age or older at the start of the academic year.
• The student is 22 years of age or younger and living with an immediate family member (defined as a parent/legal guardian, grandparent, or sibling) no more than a 30-mile commute from Hood College according to online map directions. A parent/legal guardian is defined as the person(s) who is named and whose financial information appears on the student’s completed FAFSA.
• The student is currently married, in a civil union or a domestic partner relationship (civil union and domestic partnership must have been in existence at least six months prior to date of request).
• The student is a military veteran.
• The student has dependent children living with them.
• The student is considered a rising senior with 87 credits (or more by May, 16, 2025). 

All current students attending Hood College for the 2025-2026 academic year, must either fill out a housing contract, or be approved for exemption. Students who do not fill out a housing contract, and are not approved for exemption will be administratively placed in housing and charged. 

View the Hood College residency requirement. If you are a rising sophomore and junior (with 86 credits or less as of May, 16, 2025) and currently live in college housing, the residency requirement makes it necessary for you to live on campus next year, and you will need to participate in the room selection process.

Electronically sign a housing and food service contract between Monday, April 21, 2025 and Sunday, April 27, 2025 by 11:59pm. (Failure to submit a contract does not release the student from the residency requirement or from the requirement to participate in the room selection process, and it may mean receiving a higher and less desirable lottery number.)  

If eligible, you may apply for specialized housing (see below for details). Otherwise, you will be assigned from the residence hall room selection lottery process in either Coblentz, Meyran, Smith, or Shriner Hall at the beginning of May (see below for details). Those planning to not return to Hood College next fall must complete a Leave of Absence or Withdraw form with the Office of the Registrar before Friday, April 18, 2025 to not be required to have a fall room assignment as a result of the room selection process.

Rising Seniors (those with 87 credits or more by May, 16, 2024) are not required to live in Hood College housing next academic year are able to decide between the following two options:

• Between April 21, 2025 and April 27, 2025, commit to living in Hood College housing by electronically signing a housing and dining contract. Students submitting this legally-binding contract will be eligible to participate in the housing selection process in either Coblentz, Meyran, Smith, Blazer, Memorial, or Shriner Hall. 
• Choose to secure their own lease/housing off-campus and commute to class. If a student chooses to commute, please communicate as soon as possible with the Office of Financial Aid. Having a commuter status may result in an adjustment to the financial aid package.
  • Seniors (those with 87 credits or more by May, 16, 2025) choosing to live off campus must also complete a housing exemption form and be approved through the exemption process. 

Only undergraduate students currently enrolled in Hood College courses or currently in an approved study abroad/away program, who will continue as undergraduate students at Hood College in fall 2025, are eligible to participate in the room selection process. Students new to the 2025-2026 academic year will participate in the process after all returning students are placed.

Previous Hood College students on leave or otherwise making plans to return during the 2025-2026 academic year are eligible to participate in this process only if they meet all of the following requirements:

• Are readmitted to the College by April 14th
• Email residencelife@hood.edu in order to be able to complete their housing contract
• Have no holds on their student account
• Are fully registered for a full-time load of fall 2025 classes no later than April 21st

Students not meeting these requirements will be eligible for housing assignments in July, based on availability, once they meet the requirements.

Academic Standing Classification

Course credit hours previous to the spring semester which are applied towards degree completion are added to the spring semester's course schedule credit hours to determine academic standing classification as follows:

• Freshman: fewer than 25 credits earned
• Sophomore: 25-55 credits earned
• Junior: 56-86 credits earned
• Senior: 87 or more credits earned

Courses planned after the spring semester prior to the fall semester (over the summer) are not eligible to determine academic standing classification in the room selection planning process.

Student Account Holds

Each student needs to ensure there is no hold on their Student Account by Friday, April 18, 2025. Students with with holds on their account will be placed on a waitlist until the holds are resolved. 

To participate, all students must be enrolled in courses for the Fall 2025 semester. Any student unenrolled students will not be eligible to participate in the housing selection process.

All 2025-2026 residents must complete their housing and food service contract within Self Service between Monday, April 21, 2025 and Sunday, April 27, 2025. This contract is a legally-binding agreement between the student and the College.

Beginning April 21, 2025, access the Housing and Food Service Contract link after logging into Self Service. This form contains many prompts and questions which will enable staff to match roommates later, in the event of a need for a change in room (such as a chosen roommate not returning to the College). Students in single rooms and other specialized processes must also answer these roommate preference questions. 

All continuing students must select their own roommates. Roommates should discuss living options. Sometimes it is not the best idea to be roommates with a good friend or to continue with a current roommate if there are anticipated communication problems. Note that Residence Life will match you with a random roommate if there is a vacancy in your room at the end of the housing selection process. 

• CURRENT STUDENTS PRIORITY DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 14, 2025
• INCOMING STUDENTS PRIORITY DEADLINE: JUNE 6, 2025

If a student seeks accommodations related to more than one disability, more than one professional may need to be involved in providing documentation.  Students who are unsure about the type(s) of documentation needed should consult with the Office of Accessibility Services.

While housing accommodations can be requested at any time, the Office of Accessibility Services cannot guarantee the request can be met due to room availability, especially if the request is made after the start of a semester. If a requested housing accommodation cannot be met at the time of the request, the student will be requested to meet with the Office of Accessibility Services and Residence Life to determine if an alternative reasonable accommodation may be provided.

Hood College does not discriminate in the provision of housing to students with disabilities. The College will provide comparable, convenient, and accessible housing to students with disabilities at the same cost as to others, and the College will make reasonable modifications to its housing policies, procedures, and practices when the modifications are necessary to avoid discrimination, unless the College can demonstrate that making the modifications would fundamentally alter the nature of the housing services provided by the College.

Click here for additional information and to access the Accommodations electronic form for current or accepted students.

Rising junior and senior (those with 56 credits or more by May, 16, 2025) students only may submit an application to be waitlisted for a single room beginning at 12 am. on Monday, April 27 (link will be available at that time) , which can be accessed by clicking here. This means you must have at least 56 credits by May, 16, 2025. The highest credit hours of applicants and the spaces available will determine which students are reassigned to a single room in late July.  Meaning, even if you apply to be waitlisted for a single, you will still need to participate in the housing selection process and plan to have a roommate. 

Applicants will be notified by 5 p.m. Friday, August 1, 2025 whether they are assigned to a single room.

This form is NOT for any student with an approved housing accommodation of a single room unless they wish to forgo their housing accommodation assignment; likewise, it is not for the 3-person single semi-suites in the Blazer hall as students can choose these rooms during the selection process.

Students in the honors program are eligible to apply for honors program housing residency in the new residence hall. Click here for the application, due April 1. If approved, you may indicate preferred roommates/suite-mates or be administratively assigned. Applicants will be notified by 5 p.m. Friday, April 11, 2025 whether they are assigned.

Honors program housing is in Blazer hall, and it requires residents to have 1 roommate, and potentially 3 suite-mates. 

Click here for details about Blazer hall, including pictures, floor plan layouts, and information.

The residence hall Room Selection Lottery for Blazer, Coblentz, Memorial, Meyran, Smith, Shriner Halls will take place at the end of April. 

Any student required to have a housing assignment, who fails to participate in the required housing process and select an assignment, risks the chances of not receiving a housing assignment for the upcoming academic year. 

All-Female Floors

The fourth floor of Coblentz Hall and the first floors of Meyran and Shriner Hall are designated all-female floors. Smith Hall first and third floor are also all Female.

Smith Hall second floor and Meyran ground floor are all male floors. 

All-Gender Floors

All other floors besides the all-female  and all-male floors are designated all-gender. This means one room on the floor may be designated male residents and the next room may be designated female residents. It also means students of different genders may choose to live together in a room on these floors (see All-Gender Rooms below).

All-Gender Rooms

Upperclass students in the room selection process of varying genders may choose to live together in a room on all-gender floors. Should any student depart their housing assignment, the remaining roommate(s) would have 72 hours to find a replacement roommate to fill the vacancy; if a replacement is not found, the space would be designated as single-gender for administrative assignment; this would result in the apartment roommate or triple/quad roommate of the departing student moving to another housing assignment to allow for the space to be available as a single-gender for the duration of the academic year.

Elevator Access

The elevator in Meyran Hall will remain offline for student use next academic year. Students requiring elevator access must select Coblentz, Blazer Hall, Shriner or Smith Hall and should request a housing accommodation. The Shriner Hall elevator stops at the third floor (does not go to the fourth floor).

Air-Conditioning

Every building has access to air-conditioning either through centralized air-conditioning in the building, or a window unit. 

Animal Allergy-Reduced Floors

Meyran third floor, and Shriner second floor are considered animal allergy-reduced floors. This means if students are approved to have an emotional support animal, effort will be made to have assignments on other floors so residents on these floors are not impacted as much.

During the housing selection process, The Office of Residence Life will not change any assignments. Students May reassign themselves during the selection process. If a student desires to change their housing assignment after the housing selection process has concluded, they may apply for a room change during the designated time during the fall semester. To learn more about the room change process, click here.