Apply for Housing >> Single Student

Please review the “How to Apply” section and the section related to your application status with the University of Florida below.

How to Apply

After you complete an application for admission to UF and receive your 8-digit UFID#, you are eligible to apply for campus housing. To complete the housing application, follow these steps:

Step 1 - Create your GatorLink username and password if you haven’t done so already. GatorLink is the official University of Florida authentication to access admission status, the housing portal, and much more once students are admitted. For problems creating or remembering your GatorLink username and password, please contact the UF Computing Helpdesk at 352-392-HELP (4357).
Step 2 - Have a credit card ready to pay the $25 non-refundable housing application fee. If you do not have access to a credit card please contact our office.
Step 3 - Once you have your GatorLink username and password, login to our Housing Portal.
Step 4 - Select the “Application” tab.
Step 5 - Select “Apply for Residence Hall Housing”.
Step 6 - Follow all other onscreen prompts. DO NOT press your web browser’s BACK button while completing the application as this will cause you to have to wait 1 business day before attempting your application. Preferences for hall, room type, and roommate are not completed at this time.

First-time Freshmen

After you complete an application for admission to UF, our office will send you information about applying for housing online within 1-2 weeks. If you wish to live on campus, complete the steps provided above to establish your Housing Application Date.

A completed housing application is not an indication of admission status, nor does applying for campus housing guarantee an offer of residence hall space if admitted. If you are admitted to UF, and based on your Housing Application Date, the Department of Housing & Residence Education will send information to complete a Residence Hall Contract if space is available. If offered a housing contract, you must complete the Residence Hall Contract by your due date.

Incoming students that are graduating with their high school diploma during the same year that they are applying for housing will be treated as a First-time Freshman by the Department of Housing and Residence Education even if their UF application is being reviewed as a Transfer student.

Transfer Students

After you complete an application for admission to UF and receive your 8-digit UFID#, you may apply for campus housing. Completing the application, including payment of the $25 non-refundable application fee, establishes your Housing Application Date. After you are formally admitted to UF, Housing & Residence Education will send information to complete an online Residence Hall Contract if space is available. Note: limited fall housing is available for transfer students.

Continuing Residents

Current campus residents will be emailed instructions in late Fall Semester about how to request campus housing for another Fall/Spring. The deadline to submit a request to return (know as a “lottery entry”) for the following Fall/Spring will be in January. If the number of requests by campus residents exceeds the number of spaces allotted, a "lottery" will be held approximately 1 week after the “lottery entry” deadline. This lottery drawing determines who will be offered a Residence Hall Contract for the following Fall/Spring. Historically 90-100% of the students that submit a “lottery entry” by the deadline are offered a Residence Hall Contract for the following Fall/Spring.

Continuing residents are not required to complete the steps above under “How to Apply” in order to request to return to campus housing. They should instead follow the instructions that they receive in late Fall Semester.

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