Upper-year students

Why residence?

As an upper-year student in residence, you can enjoy:

• short contracts, for the terms you need them – no 12-month leases here!
• the short walk (or shuttle ride) to campus
• all-inclusive residence fees mean you don’t pay extra for:
  • Utilities
  • Unlimited high-speed Internet
  • Maintenance
  • Safety
  • Study rooms
  • The grocery shuttle
• upper-year only communities, with programs and events designed for you.
• choosing your own roommates – your friends, your partner… mixed-gender roommate requests are not a problem.
• being one of the first people to live in our New Residence Facility at UW Place!
• being a part of the Get Ready for: Life After Graduation program in UW Place Waterloo Court exclusively for upper-year students.

Communities available for fall 2017

Contract	V1	NRB	UWP	MKV	CLV-S
Fall / winter contract
Fall / spring contract
Room style
Traditional
Suite
Accommodation
Semi-Private
Single
Single in a 3-person suite
Double
Interconnecting
Single in a 4-person suite
Meal plan
Required
Optional

Please note: fall/spring applicants are only eligible for accommodations in UW Place New Residence or Waterloo Court

How to apply

1. Decide who you want to live with. Round-up your roommate group, or you can apply on your own and we’ll match you with some new friends. Do you have a larger roommate group than will fit in one of our suites? Or you and your friends want single traditional-style rooms near each other? You can request to live on the same floor or building. We try our best to make special requests happen.
2. Decide which residence you’d like to live in.
3. Apply online. The Fall 2017 application is now open. Room offers are made on a first-come, first-served basis. Apply early to make sure you get your first choice of building and room accommodations!

Why residence?

As an upper-year student in residence, you can enjoy:

• 4-month hassle-free contracts
• Centrally located to everything
• All-inclusive residence fees mean you don’t pay extra for:
  • Utilities
  • Unlimited high-speed Internet
  • Maintenance
  • Safety
  • Study rooms
  • The grocery shuttle
• Be a part of the Get Ready for: Life After Graduation program in UW Place Waterloo Court exclusively for upper-year students.
• Be one of the first people to live in our New Residence Facility at UW Place.

Communities available for winter 2018

Contract	UWP - New Residence Building	UWP - Waterloo Court
4-month (winter term)
Room style
Traditional
Suite
Accommodation
Single
Semi-private
Single in a 3-person suite
Meal plan
Required
Optional

How to apply

1. Decide who you want to live with. Round-up your roommate group, or you can apply on your own and we’ll match you with some new friends. Do you have a larger roommate group than will fit in one of our suites? Or you and your friends want single traditional-style rooms near each other? You can request to live on the same floor or building. We try our best to make special requests happen.
2. Decide which residence you’d like to live in.
3. Apply online. The Winter 2018 application is now open. Room offers are made on a first-come, first-served basis. Apply early to make sure you get your first choice of building and room accommodations!

Absolutely, we reserve some spots for upper-year students every term. Applications to live in residence as an upper-year student are available on our website two terms in advance.

We try to maintain upper-year clusters as much as possible in our communities so that you can be surrounded by your peers. However, you will definitely have the opportunity to meet new students in all years in the various common spaces throughout residence.

We have upper-year communities in Village 1, UW Place, Mackenzie King Village and Columbia Lake Village-South.

Your application form will have you rank your choices of residence buildings according to your preferences. We cannot guarantee that you will be placed in your first choice, but we will definitely try our best to meet your requests.

Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee that you will be placed in your first choice. However, we will do our best to place you in a community that meets your requests.

Yes. You can live in residence while on co-op in the winter and spring terms, so long as you have a co-op job that is approved by the Centre for Career Action.

We do not guarantee residence for upper-year students. However, we do encourage you to apply early to have a better chance of receiving a space.

If you’re an incoming transfer student we guarantee a spot for you if you meet certain conditions.

Yes! On your application form you will be given an option to select one or more roommates. So long as you and your roommate both request each other and are on the same stream we will do our best to place you together.

Upper-year students are allowed to request a roommate that is not the same gender. As long as you both request each other and you are on the same stream, we will do our best to place you together.

No. We do not allow upper-year students to live with first-year students. We feel that it is important for first-year students to experience residence life with others who are in the same situation as they are.

There will be an upper-year application posted on our website approximately two terms prior to the term you are applying for. You can find these forms here.

This will depend on the availability that we have, which varies by term. If we have rooms available for the term you are looking for you will find an application form posted to our website. In the event that we do not have available spaces, we encourage you to use our Off-Campus Housing services.

If you need to cancel or withdraw from residence, you can do so by completing a withdrawal form. If you are withdrawing for personal reasons you will be charged a $500 withdrawal fee.

Meal plans are required for all students living in Ron Eydt Village or Village 1. Students living in suite-style residences (UWP, MKV, and CLV-South) can choose to add a meal plan by selecting this on their application or by contacting our office. Find out more information about meal plan options.

Yes. If you have unused meal plan dollars from a previous year they will roll over to the following term. You can also add a new meal plan to your Watcard as an off-campus student. For more information on the meal plan options for off-campus students, visit the Food Services website.

Yes. There is a $500 deposit required when you apply for residence. This deposit will be applied to your residence fees once they are posted to your Quest account.

Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee these requests. If you really enjoyed a previous residence community you can rank it as your first choice, but we cannot guarantee that you will be placed exactly where you want.

There are upper-year Living Learning communities available for Accounting and Finance students. All other Living Learning communities are for first-year students as they focus on material in the first-year courses. If you are looking for academic support in the residences you can find more information.

Unfortunately, we cannot take specific floor requests. You can rank the building as your first choice, but we cannot guarantee that you will get exactly what you request.

There will be Early Arrival forms and Late Arrival forms available on our website approximately one month prior to the start of the term. You must complete these forms if you will not be moving in on the designated move-in days. Please note that we cannot accept early arrival requests more than one day earlier than the move in date as we have residents living with us every term. If you have specific requests, please contact us.

You can complete an Early Arrivals form to request to move in one day before the official move-in dates. This will be before Orientation Week begins.

This depends on how early in the term you are applying and if we have vacancies in our residence. Please contact us to find a solution.