How to apply for housing

When you fill out your housing application, you’ll answer a few questions to help match you with potential roommates. You can also write a short bio to share your interests, hobbies, and what you’re looking for in a roommate—it’s a great way to help others get to know you.

Once roommate matching opens, you’ll be able to search for and request roommates in a few different ways:

• Browse your top matches based on how you answered the questionnaire
• Search by specific questions—like if you care about sleeping habits or room cleanliness
• Find people in your major who have similar answers
• Search by name if you already know someone and want to live with them (you’ll need their NAU UserID)

You can check out people’s profiles to see their bios and what college they’re in. If you want to room with someone, just send a request—and make sure they accept it before room selection starts, so you can choose a room together.

Optional: You don’t have to pick a roommate. If you don’t, no worries—someone else will either select the open spot in your room or be placed there by the system.

If you want to live with friends (or people you’ve found through the roommate search), you can create a roommate group through the housing app. As soon as you invite someone, a group is automatically created.

Things to know about groups:

• Groups can have 2 to 4 people total, and you can only be in one group at a time.
• The person who sends the invite becomes the group leader.
• Anyone who accepts the invite becomes a group member.

When you’re reviewing roommate invites, you might see a couple of things:

• Pending incoming requests = people who invited you to their group (you’ll need to accept or decline).
• Pending outgoing requests = people you or someone in your group invited (waiting on their response).

Changed your mind or want to join a different group? You’ll need to leave your current group first. You can’t join or be invited to a new one until you do.

If you’re the group leader, you’ll need to assign someone else as the leader before you leave the group.

Joining a roommate group means you’re asking to live together, but it’s not guaranteed. It all depends on what’s available when it’s time to pick your room.

Here’s how it works and some things to keep in mind:

• Any group member can choose rooms for the group during selection.
• Whoever has the earliest room selection time should do it (more options = better chance to stick together).
• The person selecting should place themselves first, then assign group members to fill the space (like two people in a two-person apartment).
• You can’t add roommates later if you already picked a room without them.
• Talk with your group ahead of time about backup options, just in case your top choice isn’t available when your time slot opens.