🏠 Wake Forest University — Parent Guide

🏠 How housing selection works at Wake Forest University

Three-year residency requirement.First-, second-, and third-year undergraduates at Wake Forest are required to live in university housing, with limited exemptions for local students.

First-year placement.First-years are placed in the central : Bostwick, Davis, Babcock, Collins, Efird, Johnson, Kitchin, Poteat, or Taylor — corridor-style halls clustered around the upper Quad. Some halls retain historic single-gender designations though most are now co-ed; roommates are matched via summer survey.

Sophomore placement.Returning sophomores enter a class-priority lottery for newer suite-style halls (Magnolia, Dogwood, Luter) or remain in their first-year hall. Honors and academic communities are placed together.

Upper-class options.Juniors live in main-campus suite/apartment halls. Seniors typically choose the South Campus / Forest Manor apartments, or Lake Manor (apartment community on the southern edge of campus, with full kitchens and private bathrooms).

Greek life.Wake Forest does not have chapter houses. Instead, fraternities and sororities operate from "Greek lounges" — on-campus chapter meeting spaces — and members live in standard university housing.