House and Room Assignments

At MIT, your housing is assigned in two different steps.
1. You rank your building preference for the placement lottery, then receive your building placement from Housing & Residential Services.
2. Student room assignment chairs (RACs) receive rosters and follow in-house processes to determine individual room placements within those buildings.
Housing and Residential Services works collaboratively with Residential and Community Life, house teams, and student leaders to make this process as seamless as possible.

Ranking a Building

You have multiple opportunities to rank which building you would like to live in. Your first opportunity is when you are accepted to MIT through the first-year building preference form. Once you live on campus, you are also eligible to participate in the fall building switch lottery or change your rankings through the spring housing intent process. We try our best to place you in your first-choice residence. Building demand changes from year to year, so it is not possible to know what your personal chances are for being placed in your favorite building. Once your building placement is announced, your information is forwarded to your building’s room assignment chairs to be assigned a room.

Room Assignments

Room assignments are determined by individual house rooming action plans (more below). Once the student room assignment chairs (RACs) receive building rosters, they follow in-house processes to place students in room. RACs forward placements to Housing & Residential Services and Residential Community Life, and then placements are announced by Housing and Residential Services. 

HouseRoom Assignment Chair
Baker Housebaker-rac@mit.edu
Burton-Conner Housebc-rooming@mit.edu
East Campusec-rac@mit.edu
MacGregor Housemac-rac@mit.edu
Maseeh Hallmaseeh-rac-chair@mit.edu
McCormick Hallmccormick-rac@mit.edu
New Housenh-housing-chair@mit.edu
New Vassarnv-rac@mit.edu
Next Housenext-housing@mit.edu
Random Hallrandom-rac@mit.edu
Simmons Housesimmons-rooming@mit.edu

Moving from Room to Room within a Residence

If you wish to move to another room in the same building or living group you should contact the room assignment chair (RACs) in your residence hall. Responsibility for making room assignments and changes in room assignments within an MIT undergraduate residence hall is usually delegated to the student government of that residence in consultation with the house manager and the head of house. No assignment is final until approved by Housing & Residential Services. 

Room Assignment House Action Plans

Housing & Residential Services has worked collaboratively with Residential & Community Life, Room Assignment Chairs, and House Teams in each house to develop a process for room assignments. Summaries of these processes are available on each individual residence page under the Room Assignment tab. Comprehensive first-year room assignment house action plans are available at the bottom of the First-Year Housing page.