Residential Life

Housing Lottery Guidebook

General Lottery

Sunday, April 22 at 9 a.m.
Annex A & B

The General Lottery provides students an opportunity to select all other housing options not chosen in the Blocking and Substance Free lotteries or otherwise pre-assigned. You do NOT need to sign up for the General Lottery. Below is an outline of when numbers will be called.

• Rising Senior Class ('13) - number calling begins promptly at 9am
• Rising Junior Class ('14) - number calling begins promptly at 2:30pm
• Rising Sophomore Class ('15) - number calling begins promptly at 6:30pm

** This schedule is tentative. There may be delays, so we will let you know, via email a few days before Sunday, how you can keep track of the lottery.

The rooms available will be frequently updated on floor plans posted in the Annex at the housing lottery. The Lottery will be broadcast live on the Hamilton College station with updated floor plans throughout the day. Also, floor plans will be available on the tables when you select a room. Please become familiar with these prior to the lottery (via the Housing Guide Online).

**NOTE** In order to stay on schedule at the Lottery, you will have a time limit of 3 minutes to select your room.

If you (or your housing proxy) show up late, you WILL be able to select a room at the time you arrive. However, if you (or your housing proxy) fail to show up, you will be placed on the housing waitlist.

General Housing Lottery Instructions:

1. Bring your Hamilton ID card
2. When your lottery number is called, show your Hamilton ID card at the check-in table. You will then be escorted to another table where you will be given a sticker with your name on it and a Housing Assignment Card. If you are being pulled with someone else's number, you must be present when the pull occurs.
3. Proceed to Annex with escort to select your room.
4. When you have decided on a room, your escort will tell you to place your sticker on the roster that corresponds to the particular room you want. The lottery representative will write your room number on the Housing Assignment Card. Once you place your sticker, that room is yours!

**NOTE** Rising Juniors and Seniors, please be sure to indicate what meal plan you would like on the Housing Assignment Card.