Spring-Only Housing Selection
Spring 2026 Housing Selection
Students abroad for the Fall 2025 semester will participate in our Spring Only Housing Selection process.
- Students participating in Spring Only Housing Selection will select their room and meal plan for the spring semester on December 10 via the Housing Portal.
- All selection times will be between 10:00am-4:00pm Eastern time, so please plan accordingly.
- Selection times will be available on December 5 in your Housing Portal.
- Please note that options will be limited; you are not guaranteed the option to select a roommate group or roommate of choice. It is possible that you will need to fill an empty bed in a double room with an existing roommate.
- We anticipate Martin Hall being available for selection for Spring 2026. (roommate groups of 11)
- You will receive an email via your WFU email address with specific instructions to select your Spring housing and meal plan.
- The Availability list, which will indicate all open housing spaces for selection, will be live on December 5 in the Housing Portal. This list is dynamic and updates about every 15 minutes throughout the selection process as spaces are chosen.
Frequently Asked Questions
Students studying abroad during the Fall Semester will NOT select housing during Housing Selection for the full year. Instead, students abroad for the Fall Semester will be required to select their housing for the Spring Semester online in December.
- In Mid-December, you will be required to electronically self-select your actual spring room and meal plan.
- An e-mail from the Office of Residence Life and Housing will be sent to your WFU e-mail account with log-on times and instructions on self-selecting your spring room and meal plan.
- Wake Forest University views living on campus as integral to a liberal arts education and the Wake Forest experience. In support of that view, Wake Forest University has a six-semester residency requirement; your semester abroad will count as one semester towards this requirement. You will be expected to return to on-campus housing upon your return to the University.
Wake Forest University views living on campus as integral to a liberal arts education and the Wake Forest experience. In support of that view, Wake Forest University has a six-semester residency requirement. Students with less than six semesters of housing credit should not make any plans to live off-campus unless they have been released in writing from the residency requirement by the Office of Residence Life and Housing.
As a part of the Spring Housing Process, students may choose to enter the Off-Campus Lottery. This indicates a desire to live off-campus prior to fulfilling the residency requirement. As the Office of Residence Life and Housing finalizes the number of students able to live on campus for the spring semester, they will use random selection to release the appropriate number of students.
When the Off-Campus Lottery period is active, it does not matter if you apply when it opens or right before the close date. You have the same odds of being selected.
Updates about Housing Requests and Releases, (including results for the Off-Campus Lottery) will be communicated via email by a specified date.
Most students returning from abroad should expect to live on-campus.
In the event of a vacancy in their room, the remaining resident may pull in a new roommate of choice rather than having a new roommate assigned via Housing Selection or by the Office Residence Life and Housing.
To pull in a new roommate, the current resident must complete the pull in section of the Room Change Request form found on the Housing Portal during the designated period.
Note: The request must be submitted by only one resident remaining in the space (room, apartment, suite) for the spring semester and discussed with all remaining residents in advance. If there are multiple spaces available, the same person may submit multiple requests.
If you are being pulled into a space, confirm with those residents that they have submitted the pull-in request.
In support of students with disabilities, the Office of Residence Life and Housing has a wide variety of housing and dining options on-campus that can accommodate the vast majority of disability needs. Students who need to request disability-related accommodation should visit our website to begin the request process. For the Spring term, all students should provide complete documentation for consideration by a specified date that will be communicated to students in advance.
Please note that a release from the University’s six-semester on-campus housing requirement is generally not considered a reasonable accommodation. Most housing or dining accommodations can be made among the current residential facilities on campus. Students seeking accommodation to live off-campus should explain in their request (and in providers supporting documentation) how living off-campus meets their needs in ways the University cannot on-campus.