Non-Guaranteed First Year Students

Online applications for 2024-2025 residence open February 1, 2024. 
Applications deadline is June 10, 2024
For other important dates and deadlines, please click here.

You must first accept your offer of admission before you can apply for residence and wait for your application status on Carleton360 to display “Applicant Acceptance”. There may be a delay of 3 or 4 days between the time you accept the offer of admission and are able to apply for residence.

Step 1:  The link to the application portal will be available on February 1, 2024.  You will require MC1 credentials to log into the portal.

Step 2:  Once you have logged in, click on “Housing Application”.

Step 3: Select Academic Year 2024-2025.

Step 4: Pay a $35 non-refundable application fee.  The $35 application fee can be paid by credit card (Visa, Mastercard or American Express, any Visa/Debit* cards) or by Interac. Please note that only customers of RBC Royal Bank, TD Bank, First Nations may use the Interac option.

Step 5: Be sure to complete and save your application by June 10, 2024 in order to be placed in the room lottery.

Note: All email correspondence will go to your Carleton email account. Please check your Carleton email account on a regular basis.

If you have not yet set up your Carleton account, please click here for instructions.

Based on available space, students will be forwarded an Offer of Residence Accommodation or a waitlist assignment number after the Room Lottery on June TBD, 2024. Any applications received after the deadline of June 10, 2024 will be added to the end of the waitlist. Space will be offered in waitlist order, as it becomes available through cancellations.

It is important that you set up and check your Carleton email account, which we will use to communicate with you. You are also welcome to contact our office to check your status. More information about the waitlist can be found here.

Room Assignment Process

While the majority of first year students are accommodated in double traditional rooms, you may indicate your preference for a traditional single, suite double or suite single room within the application.

Rooms will be assigned based on your special accommodation requirements, and preference to live on a special interest floor, however, it is not guaranteed.

Roommate/Suitemate Matching

Roommate matching for suites and traditional double rooms is based on the answers provided within the application form. Please answer these questions as accurately as possible so that we can find the best possible match of roommate/suitemate for you.

Some factors that we take into consideration when matching roommates/suitemates are:

• Age
• Faculty
• Request for all gender/single gender floors
• Smoking (although all residences are smoke free)
• Answers regarding personal lifestyle

If there is someone with whom you would like to share a room, you may also indicate this within the application.

Room Changes

We will begin accepting room change requests on September 30, 2024. Room changes are offered on a first come, first serve basis according to student type and availability. While every attempt is made to accommodate room change requests, a new room assignment is not always readily available. Residents will be contacted if and when there is a new room assignment to consider. More information regarding room changes can be found here.