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Honors Housing
Honors housing provides the opportunity to live in an academic environment that supports the social, emotional, and personal growth of Honors students. Living in Honors housing will facilitate a stronger sense of community within the program and will encourage and promote your academic success and personal development while enriching your college experience.
First-Year Honors Students
Most Honors freshmen will be assigned to live in Buckley Hall, which is the First-Year Honors Residential Community. In order to be assigned to Buckley Hall, new incoming Honors students must apply for housing at www.reslife.uconn.edu by May 16, 2011. Honors students have priority in Buckley Hall and we strongly believe that this leads to a better sense of community within the Honors Program as well as contributes to students’ academic success. This placement provides incoming Honors students with the benefits of living, studying, and socializing together and the opportunity to participate in the rich array of programs and events designed specifically for our first-year students. In addition, the Honors Programming and Events Office is now located in Buckley Hall. View a virtual tour of Buckley.
Honors students may request other Honors students as roommates. If a student meets another Honors student at Orientation whom they decide to request as a roommate, both students must complete the housing application by May 16th and submit the request to be roommates by the July 15, 2011 deadline. The Department of Residential Life will do its best to accommodate roommate requests.
Waivers of the First-Year Honors Residential Community housing requirement may be granted in very rare circumstances for students wishing to live in another living learning community. The student must present a compelling case for his/her interest in living in another living learning community. Written requests for a waiver should be submitted to Rebecca Gates, Honors Program Coordinator, by May 1, 2011.
After the first year, Honors students may choose from the wide variety of housing options offered by the Department of Residential Life that are available during room selection which include living in Honors housing. Second year Honors students may apply to live in the Sophomore Honors Community in Brock Hall. Honors students may also apply to Honors housing in Wilson Hall, suite-style residence hall in South Campus or in the renovated building of Connecticut Commons, which provide single bedroom housing in a suite-style setting. While Honors housing may be available for interested students, space is limited, and housing in an upper-class community is not guaranteed. Students must first be approved for on campus housing before being considered for any Honors housing.
Honors Sophomores, Juniors, & Seniors
The process for Honors housing for sophomores, juniors, & seniors will be handled by the Department of Residential Life via their online housing sign-up process.
Please make sure you pay attention to ALL communications from Residential Life in order to reserve your room.
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