To choose your housing, you will follow this simple process:听
Housing assignments at AUP are processed on a first-come-first-served basis. This means that when the 鈥淚ndicate your Housing Preferences鈥 form opens on your AUP Status Page on Tuesday, May 9th at 4PM Paris Time (10am Eastern / 7am Pacific) for incoming first-year students, and Thursday, May 25th 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. This can be a competitive process: in previous years, the housing office has received over 200 submissions in the first 5 minutes of the form opening. This is why 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 鈥 in some cases, all the preferences of a specific submission may be booked by the time we process the student鈥檚 form. Should that be the case, we will contact the student for new preferences based on updated availability.
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. 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鈥檚 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鈥檚 room regardless of submission order.
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!
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.
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 accommodation is available in select AUP residences and Partner residences. Students who need accessible housing should contact the housing office directly at housingaup.edu before submitting their preferences. We will work with them to ensure that they are placed in housing that best suits their needs.
Yes, you are able to choose different housing options within the same location for your first or second choice. 听
Yes. Due to the high number of submissions our office receives upon opening the registration form, we might not be able to process some of the last submissions in the first round due to some housing options being filled. If that is the case for you, we will email you to invite you to submit new preferences based on remaining availabilities.
If you are confident that you know a fellow incoming student with whom your living preferences and habits are compatible, you can definitely request them as a roommate in your housing preference form. We do urge you to be careful and to thoroughly discuss your living preferences before requesting anyone as a roommate: great friends do not always make great roommates. In considering roommate requests with other incoming students, make sure to discuss the following topics: budget and the preferences you both wish to select in your forms, study and sleeping habits, tidiness and weekly chores, personal values, and social habits.
Unfortunately, we are not able to switch housing assignments once they have been issued to students. Please do note that, if you have received your third or fourth preference, this means that your top ranked preferences were filled by the time we processed your submission. This means that they were already assigned to other students, and that we would not be able to switch you to them after assignments have been issued.
Unfortunately, we are not able to hold waitlists in our housing assignment process. We do issue cancellations of housing assignments should students fail to confirm their registration through the first payment. As such, should you wish to try your luck again through the assignment round, you would simply not complete your first payment, and resubmit preferences based on the updated availabilities following our first payment deadline. Do note that, should you seek that alternative, there is no guarantee that you will be assigned to your desired housing option 鈥 it is also possible that your initial housing assignment is no longer available when your reassignment form is processed.