Housing assignments at AUP are processed on a first-come-first-served basis. This means that when the “Indicate your Housing Preferences” form opens on your AUP Status Page on Monday, November 20th at 4PM Paris Time (10am Eastern / 7am Pacific) for incoming first-year students, and Wednesday, November 22nd at 4PM Paris Time for visiting and transfer students, students will be able to submit their preferences and the housing office will process them one by one based on time stamp. We strongly recommend going into the housing assignment process with an open mind, and with a flexible selection of preferred housing.
Please do note that the housing preference form allows you to indicate preferences, not to select a specific housing. While we would love to, ideally, place all of our students in their first choice, we receive many submissions in a very short period of time, and beds in all residences are limited. We may not be able to place you in your first or second choice – in some cases, all the preferences of a specific submission may be booked by the time we process the student’s form. Should that be the case, we will contact the student for new preferences based on updated availability.
Roommate requests in the housing preference form:
If you know someone also attending AUP starting Fall 2023 with whom you wish to share a room, you will be able to request them as a roommate in your housing preferences form on your AUP status page. Please note that this only applies to double rooms, for students to request each other to share an immediate room space – this does not apply to students wishing to be housemates (different rooms within the same apartment), or hallmates (different rooms within the same residence). Students are guaranteed to room with their requested roommate provided that they a) both request each other and b) both submit the same shared housing preferences in the exact same order on their form. If a student has requested a roommate, we will check their requested roommate’s preference form: so long as they have also requested the other student and listed the same preferences, they will be pulled into their requested roommate’s room regardless of submission order.Please note that some of our openings may be in shared rooms already housing one full-year student; as such, our ability to place two students who have requested each other in a completely open room may be limited.
If you do not already have a roommate in mind but would still like to register for shared housing, do not worry: we will be sending a roommate and housemate preferences survey in the summer, after registrations have been finalized, to match students in shared housing based on their living habits and preferences!
The Roommate SurveyPairingProcess
While we work to match roommates based on the most compatible responses to the roommate survey, please note that we do not have as much flexibility in Spring assignments due to most of our housing options already being occupied. Some of our shared rooms may already be assigned to one full-year student (or multiple in our co-living apartments), and as such possible pairings may be more limited.
Medical needs and the first-come-first-served process:
If you have medical needs that require a specific type of accommodation within our housing offering, we encourage you to submit a medical exemption request before you choose your housing preferences. Medical exemptions cannot be granted retrospectively after AUP housing is assigned.
Shared housing gender policy:
Our shared housing, whether in twin studios or single and double rooms in shared apartments, does not allow for mixed sex and gender allocations. We are working on having inclusive housing for our LGBTQA+ students, including those who identify as gender non-binary or gender-fluid, but as we are still building our roster of AUP-managed residences where we have more control, we are not yet able to accommodate these students in shared housing options. Students who identify as gender non-binary or gender-fluid will have access to single studios - we are able to prioritize their housing assignment to ensure that they are placed within those options, especially as we want to make sure that they feel safe in their housing; this is why students can indicate their gender identity in their housing preference form.
Accessible AUP Housing
Accessible accommodation is available in select AUP residences and Partner residences. Students who need accessible housing should contact the housing office directly at housing@aup.edu before submitting their preferences. We will work with them to ensure that they are placed in housing that best suits their needs.
