Room Changes
Changes During The Semester
Room changes during the academic semesters are overseen by the Community Director for your area of campus. Changes are based on availability and must be approved by the Community Director for your area of campus.
- Students requesting a change due to a disability-related accommodation should follow the process outlined on our Accommodations page and will be contacted by our Assignments team after their request has been reviewed.
- Students requesting a change due to roommate concerns/conflict will need to work through a mediation process with their Community Director prior to requesting a room change.
Changes Between the Fall and Spring Semester
Continuing (Sophomore, Junior, Senior) and Transfer students may:
- Request a Room Change
- Request to “Pull In” a roommate of choice into their room, suite, or apartment.
- Students with 4 or more housing credits may enter the Off-Campus Lottery.
Students returning to campus for the spring semester may:
- Enter the Off-Campus Lottery
- Be “Pulled In” by a student living on campus for the Academic Year
- Select housing in the Spring Only Selection Process
Examples of student types include: Returning from abroad, readmit, and return from CES.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
- October 8 – November 5, 2025: Spring 2026 Housing Requests will be available via the Housing Portal. This includes the Off-Campus lottery.
- November 5, 2025: ALL STUDENTS MUST SUBMIT SPRING INTENT BY THIS DATE
- By November 14, 2025: Updates about Housing Requests and Releases
- December 1-5, 2025: Approved Room Changes Take Place
- December 10, 2025: Spring 2026 Housing Selection between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. EST
Students looking to change rooms on-campus for the Spring 2026 semester, with 2 or more housing credits, may submit a request in the Housing Portal between October 8 and November 5.
- Requests will be processed in the order they are received.
- Students will be informed about the status of their requests by November 14, 2025, via email.
- If approved to move, students MUST complete their move between December 1, 2025, and December 5, 2025.
- Students will have 72 hours after check-in to complete their move and check out of their old space.
Block Housing and Residential Engagement Communities
To request a room change to or within Block Housing and Residential Engagement Communities, the group leader for your group must complete an updated roster and submit that to the Office of Residence Life and Housing.
- Students may be allowed to move within their designated housing blocks; however, students are typically not permitted to move out of their housing block.
- Finally, students who change rooms into a housing block are assigned to that space for the remainder of the academic year.
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 between October 8 and November 5, 2025.
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.
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 2026 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.
Updates about Housing Requests and Releases, (including results for the Off-Campus Lottery) will be communicated by Nov. 12, 2025.
Most students returning from abroad should expect to live on campus for Spring 2025.
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 November 15th.
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.
Students abroad for the Fall 2025 semester will participate in our Spring Only Housing Selection process. Please read below for an overview of the process.
- The Spring Only Housing Application will open on October 8. Students may begin forming roommate groups and if interested, enter the Off-Campus Lottery (see above for more details).
- Note: Please plan on small roommate groups (max of 4 students) to align with available housing options. Students can also be “pulled” into vacancies on campus. (See above for more details)
- Students participating in Spring Only Housing Selection select their room and meal plan for the spring semester on December 10, 2025 between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. EST via the 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.
- You will receive an email via your WFU email address with specific instructions to select your Spring housing and meal plan. This email will also include your selection time. All selection times will be in Eastern time, so please plan accordingly.
To review the Fall Study Abroad Housing Agreement you signed, you received an email from Residence Life and Housing with a copy. You may also reference the agreement by clicking here.
Any student currently assigned to campus housing who is leaving Wake Forest University for any reason (e.g., continuous enrollment, withdrawal, transfer) must notify our office at housing@wfu.edu.
*Please note that we recommend using a pencil not a pen when adding these dates to your calendar. Though we’ve taken a great deal to provide accuracy for the upcoming year, dates are subject to change as needed should institutional changes impact the 25-26 academic year dates. Check back here regularly as we near key dates and deadlines and be sure to check your WFU email for the most updated information.
QUESTIONS?
See your community staff or contact the Office of Residence Life and Housing at housing@wfu.edu or 336.758.5185.