🏠 Vassar College — Parent Guide

🏠 How housing selection works at Vassar College

guarantees on-campus housing for all four years and requires all students to live on campus. The college has a distinctive house-based where each a self-governing community with its own (an RA-equivalent system).

First-Year Students:Incoming students are assigned to one of Vassar's nine by the Office of , using a housing questionnaire to match preferences. Houses are co-ed and socially mixed across class years — first-years, sophomores, juniors, and seniors typically live side by side in the same building, which is a deliberate choice to foster mentorship and cross-class relationships. The nine corridor-style houses are Strong, Noyes, Raymond, Davison, Jewett, Lathrop, and Cushing Houses, plus Josselyn and Ferry Houses.

Upperclass Housing Options:

• Kenyon Hall— a larger corridor building; popular and centrally located
• Main Building— the historic 1865 Main Hall; central to campus life, with a range of room styles from standard rooms to larger suites
• Town Houses— apartment-style units for upperclass students; kitchen access; highly competitive in the lottery
• Terrace Apartments— similar to Town Houses; modern apartment style; popular with seniors
• Co-Op— student-run cooperative community with shared cooking and governance responsibilities; separate application process
• Ferry House— smaller a kitchen; favored for its community atmosphere

Room Draw:Upperclass students select rooms through a lottery each spring. Priority is based on class year, with seniors selecting first. Students may form groups of up to four when entering the draw together.

Vassar's 1,000-acre campus in Poughkeepsie, NY means all residence halls are on campus and within walking distance of facilities. For current lottery timelines and , visit the website.