With next year’s housing application now open to students until noon on Feb. 14, Duke has made several changes to the process, including the announcement of QuadEx. To help students sort through all these new policies, the Chronicle has compiled the most pressing information about housing in the 2022-2023 year.
How does QuadEx affect rising sophomores?
All sophomores will be assigned to a West Campus residential quad based on the East Campus dorm they lived in this year. A list of all quad connections can be found on the Housing and Residence Life website. Students can select another sophomore of any gender to be their roommate, given that their roommate will live in the same quad as them next year.
If students couldn’t find a prospective roommate in their assigned quad, they were able to submit a QuadEx Appeal Request form. On February 10, these students were notified about the outcome of their appeal.
How does QuadEx affect rising juniors and seniors?
Rising upperclassmen are not assigned to quads, but can rank their preference for which quads they’d like to live in, including Hollows and 300 Swift, on their housing application. Students will be allocated to quads by a lottery process.
Juniors and seniors can choose any other junior or senior, regardless of gender identity, to be their roommate.
What are the rules for LLCs and SLGs?
All members of Living Learning Communities should fill out their housing application as if they’re not living with their LLCs. Students in LLCs can still live with a preferred roommate from their quad connection, even if this roommate is not in the LLC. February 1st was the deadline for LLCs to submit their membership lists to the housing assignments staff.
As for Selective Living Groups, the 2022-2023 school year will be the last year they will be allocated on-campus housing. February 14th was the deadline for SLGs to submit their membership lists.
Members of LLCs and SLGs will be notified by February 14th of their membership, and they have until February 18th to confirm their membership. After confirmation, housing staff will manually assign these students to their respective residential spaces.
What is the lottery and self-assign process?
After the housing application closes, each roommate pair or block will be assigned a lottery number randomly. All-senior blocks will receive the lowest numbers, followed by mixed junior-senior groups, then juniors, then sophomores, who will have the highest lottery numbers.
Lottery numbers are used for determining when students can select their room within their assigned quads. The lower one’s lottery number is, the earlier they can select their room. During this self-assign process, students do not have to select a room with their preferred roommate or anyone in their block.
For the fall semester, Duke will not conduct an off-campus lottery, anticipating that there will be enough room to house all seniors who choose to live on campus.
How does forming a block work?
All students can form blocks of up to eight students to live near. To create a block, one person in the block must invite all other members on their housing application, and these other members have to accept the emailed invitation.
Sophomores can only block with other sophomores, but upperclassmen can have blocks of juniors and seniors. Forming a block doesn’t guarantee that students will live in neighboring rooms, but it gives all block members the same lottery number, meaning that they can all select their rooms at the same time.
What are some important dates to keep in mind?
The self-assign process for room selection takes place the week of March 2. Students who successfully appealed their QuadEx placement will be notified of their new assignment the week of April 4. By April 8, all students must confirm their fall housing assignments. If they are unsatisfied with their arrangements, students can apply for reassignment starting on May 16.
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Anisha Reddy is a Trinity junior and a senior editor of The Chronicle's 118th volume.