On behalf of the Office of Residence Life, congratulations on being accepted and welcome to SUNY New Paltz.
You are about to begin one of the most exciting times in your life and we’re thrilled you have decided to make New Paltz a part of your journey.
Life in the residence halls is exciting, fun, and challenging. You will learn about different cultures, interests, and values while your roommates and community members learn about you.
Living on campus will enhance your university experience by providing you many opportunities to develop lasting and memorable relationships with your roommate(s), neighbors, student staff members, and others on campus. It is our goal to provide you with learning experiences that will benefit your overall growth and development as a productive citizen in society.
We encourage you to take the time to learn new things, experience new ideas and develop new friendships while living in our community.
Please see the information below:
For general housing information, you can click on the links under Resources, within the Residence Life website, but below are some links we want to highlight:
First Year Students
Pay your Advance Room Deposit on the Admission Status Portal.
- EOP students - The deposit is waived for EOP students.
Submit a Residence Hall License between July 1st and August 1st.
- All students living on campus must submit a Residence Hall License between July 1st and August 1st. Instructions for submitting the license will be available here starting on July 1st and will also be emailed to all students.
Submit a Roommate Matching Survey.
- First-year students who attend Summer Orientations 1-5 will submit a Roommate Matching Survey during their orientation. A Residence Life staff member will meet with each orientation group to provide instructions and administer the survey.
- First-year students who register for Orientation 6 will receive an email with instructions for submitting a Roommate Matching Survey on July 15 and must submit it by July 25th.
Commuter Students: Please see the info below if wish to live at home and commute to classes
- First-Year students who live within 25 miles of the campus and wish to commute must submit a First-Year Student Commuter Application by July 1st.
- Please visit the Commuter Student page for more information and the application.
ROOMMATE MATCHING SURVEY - First-year students will submit a Roommate Matching Survey during summer orientation. The survey asks questions about living habits.
If you know one or two people you want to live with, meet them during Summer Orientation or on social media, you can request them as roommates on the survey. See the Roommate Request section below.
If you do not know anyone specific, and do not meet anyone later, we will use the answers you provide in the survey to match you with one or two other first-year students that have similar living habits.
ROOMMATE REQUESTS - If you already know another incoming first-year student or two, or a transfer student, or you meet people during Summer Orientation, or on social media, exchange Housing Keys with that person PRIOR to your Orientation as you can request them as roommates by entering their name and Housing Key on the roommate matching survey. As long as you all request each other on your individual surveys, you will be guaranteed a room together.
If you know a current New Paltz student, who lives on campus right now, who plans to live on campus again in Fall 2025, and wants you as a roommate, you must submit your Residence Hall License and give them your Housing Key by April 1st. They can use your Housing Key to bring you into whatever room they are choose during Returning Student Fall Room Selection, which takes place in April.
Once the roommate matching process is completed, (whether you requested a specific person or two, or whether we matched you), roommate groups will be placed in rooms together in a corridor style hall, or in Lenape Hall.
The room and building each group gets placed in will be chosen at random. There are three exceptions to this:
- Students who join one of our Living-Learning Communities. Living-Learning Communities are building-specific so participants will be assigned to the building which houses their chosen Community. Living-Learning Community participants will be assigned roommates who are also part of the same Community.
- Students who are approved for accommodations which require placement in specific buildings, or type of room. To request a Disability-Based Accessible Housing Application, please email the Disability Resource Center at drc@newpaltz.edu.
- Students who need to stay on campus during winter and/or spring break. Students who require housing during winter and/or spring break must live in a 10-month hall. 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 first-year students will receive an email with their room and roommate assignments by August 6th.
Transfer Students
Pay your Advance Room Deposit on the Admission Status Portal.
- EOP Students - The deposit is waived for EOP students.
Please note: Housing on campus is limited. The first 75 transfers who pay the Advance Room Deposit will be guaranteed housing for fall 2025. All other students will be placed on a waitlist for housing.
Your Admissions Status Portal will indicate whether you can pay the Advance Room Deposit, or whether you must email us to request to be placed on the waitlist.
Housing Waitlist: Students who must request to be placed on the waitlist can email us at reslife@newpaltz.edu. Waitlisted students will be granted housing and receive instructions on how to secure a room if/when space becomes available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Transfer students who are guaranteed housing:
ROOMMATE MATCHING SURVEY - Transfer students who have been guaranteed housing will submit a Roommate Matching Survey between July 1 - July 24. The survey asks questions about living habits.
If you know one or two people you want to live with, meet them during Summer Orientation or on social media, you can request them as roommates on the survey. See the Roommate Request section below.
If you do not know anyone specific, and do not meet anyone later, we will use the answers you provide in the survey to match you with one or two other first-year students that have similar living habits.
ROOMMATE REQUESTS - If you already know another incoming first-year student or two, or a transfer student, or you meet people during Summer Orientation, or on social media, exchange Housing Keys with that person PRIOR to your Orientation as you can request them as roommates by entering their name and Housing Key on the roommate matching survey. As long as you all request each other on your individual surveys, you will be guaranteed a room together.
If you know a current New Paltz student, who lives on campus right now, who plans to live on campus again in Fall 2025, and wants you as a roommate, you must submit your Residence Hall License and give them your Housing Key by April 1st. They can use your Housing Key to bring you into whatever room they are choose during Returning Student Fall Room Selection, which takes place in April.
Transfer students who are guaranteed housing:
Once the roommate matching process is completed, (whether you requested a specific person or two, or whether we matched you), roommate groups will be placed in rooms together.
The room and building each group gets placed in will be chosen at random. There are three exceptions to this:
- Students who join one of our Living-Learning Communities. Living-Learning Communities are building-specific so participants will be assigned to the building which houses their chosen Community. Living-Learning Community participants will be assigned roommates who are also part of the same Community.
- Students who are approved for accommodations which require placement in specific buildings, or type of room. To request a Disability-Based Accessible Housing Application, please email the Disability Resource Center at drc@newpaltz.edu.
- Students who need to stay on campus during winter and/or spring break. Students who require housing during winter and/or spring break must live in a 10-month hall. 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 transfers students who are guaranteed housing by August 1st will receive an email with their room and roommate assignments by August 6th.
Students who are still waitlisted on or after August 1st will be notified if space becomes available.
