No. Students who return to live with university housing will receive a waiver of the $100 application fee as a thank you for returning. 

You will receive an email confirmation after you successfully complete your University Housing Contract. If you do not receive the email confirmation, you do not have a completed contract.
Log back in to make sure you checked the box at the very end of the process, which serves as your electronic signature. The checked box also indicates that you have read and agree to the terms and conditions of the University Housing Contract.
To make changes to your personal information, preferences or housing assignment, you may log back into the Housing Sign-Up site to review and/or change your selection until April 15.

If my preferred roommate currently lives in University Housing:

Search for your preferred roommate in the online Housing Contract using their University ID Number (UIN) or NetId.
Assign your preferred roommate to the adjacent space in the room you select. Or pick an open room where you can assign yourself and your roommate can assign themselves to the adjacent space.
Both residents must sign and complete the contract for the space to be confirmed. NOTE: Once you and your roommate has been assigned a space, You cannot be assigned a second time. Each contract holder will be responsible for their own room changes after initial placement.

If my preferred roommate is already on campus as a continuing student but is not currently living in University Housing:
Make sure your preferred roommate has logged in and started the housing contract for the school year you intend to live with University Housing.
Search for your preferred roommate in the online Housing Contract using their University ID Number (UIN) or NetId.
Assign your preferred roommate to the adjacent space in the room you select. Or pick an open room where you can assign yourself and your roommate can assign themselves to the adjacent space.
Near the end of October, your roommate can complete their housing contract and confirm the assignment you created for them. Both residents must sign and complete the contract for the space to be confirmed. NOTE: Once you and your roommate have been assigned a space, you cannot be assigned a second time. Each contract holder will be responsible for their own room change after the initial placement.

If my preferred roommate is not currently living on-campus and will be entering as a first-year or transfer for the upcoming academic year:
Select an open double room (will display as 2/2 available).
As soon as you have selected your room, please send an email to housing@illinois.edu and provide your full name UIN, and the hall/room you selected for next academic year as well as the full name and date of birth or UIN of your preferred roommate.
We will create a tentative assignment in your room for your friend in the space adjacent to you (if available).
Within 48 hours after accepting their admission to the University of Illinois, your preferred roommate should log in to the online Housing Contract and complete their contract to confirm the tentative assignment we created for them. If they do not do so within 48 hours, the space will be released for others to choose.

Residents who currently have single rooms must log on to the Housing
Sign-Up site and sign their contract to select their same single room during Same Room Phase.
Residents who do not currently live in a single may select any available single room during the Any Hall/Any Room Phase. Note that single rooms will be displayed as 1/1, which means there is one open space in a single room.
Undergraduate single rooms are located in:
Barton – Lundgren
Nugent
Wassaja,
Bousfield
Taft-Van Doren
Illinois Street Residence Halls
Busey-Evans
Florida Avenue Residence Halls
Lincoln Avenue Residence Halls
Pennsylvania Avenue Residence Halls

Residents who currently live in Daniels or Sherman must log on to the Apply Page during the Same Hall/Same Room Phase and sign their contract to keep their same room, or their room will be available for someone else to select.
Current Sherman and Daniels residents who do not want to stay in their same room can select other spaces in those buildings during the Special Priority Phase prior to residents of undergraduate halls.
Current undergraduate hall residents will be able to select a space in Daniels or Sherman during the Any Hall/Any Room Phase. Students who currently live off-campus can select a space in our residence halls, including Daniels or Sherman, a week after the Any Hall/Any Room Phase opens.

Bousfield Hall offers coed suites (four singles with a shared living room and semi-private bathroom) where a mix of men and women can live in the same suite.
Sherman Hall offers limited coed corner single rooms (three singles grouped together with a semi-private bathroom). These options permit both men and women to select the same suite. You can see the specific room numbers of these coed options when you log in to the Housing Portal and are selecting a room.

Allen Hall has a gender-inclusive wing (Allen 1 North) that offers gender-inclusive rooms. Students of any gender may share a room. This wing also has a gender-inclusive bathroom in which students of any gender may use the same bathroom at the same time.
Wassaja Hall offers two clusters of rooms that are gender inclusive. In these designated clusters, students of any gender may share the same room.
Pennsylvania Avenue Residence Hall (PAR) and Townsend Hall (ISR) offer a select number of rooms that are gender inclusive. In these designated rooms, students of any gender may share the same room.

All of Pennsylvania Avenue Residence Halls (PAR), Illinois Street Residence Halls (ISR), Hopkins Hall, Snyder Hall, Scott Hall, Weston Hall are coed by door. In these halls, male rooms may be located next to female rooms. In PAR and ISR each floor has multiple individual-use bathrooms. In Hopkins, Snyder, Scott and Weston, each floor has two female bathrooms and two male bathrooms.
See the Gender-Inclusive Options page for additional details. To explore other options that accommodate your gender identity or gender expression, please contact our Housing Information Office at 217-333-7111 or housing@illinois.edu. We are happy to help you find the living arrangement that works for you.

RA candidates will be notified of their applicant status by the end of January.
Candidates who are not offered an RA position or who are chosen as alternates are subject to the same contract terms as any student. Therefore, if an RA alternate signs a contract during Housing Sign-Up or later, they have 30 days to cancel.

If the RA candidate is hired 30 days after the contract is signed, the student must contact our Housing Information Office at housing@illinois.edu to cancel their contract without a settlement charge.
All RA candidates who wish to return to the residence halls regardless of employment need to complete Housing Sign-Up. This is the only time that you will be able to guarantee housing for next academic year.

Once you select a room and complete a contract, you have 30 days to cancel the contract with no fee. If you decide to cancel after the 30-day period, there will be a cancellation fee of up to 75% of your entire contract amount.

If you sign a contract online during Housing Sign-Up and decide later that you want to cancel your assignment, log on and click the "Cancel Contract" button. If you cancel the contract after 30 days of signing, you are still responsible for a settlement charge.

Wait until you have made your decision about where to live before you sign a housing contract.
Our contract is a legally binding agreement, which means that we cannot release you to live off-campus. Please take time to consider your options before you make a commitment to live with us.

If you sign both a contract and a lease, you will most likely be financially responsible for both legally-binding agreements. Please do not put yourself in this type of financial situation. Do not expect us to release you from financial responsibility. Obligating yourself to a contract is a very serious matter that should be done with great thought and planning.

No. The contract you are signing is a binding, legal agreement, so we do not release students to make other housing arrangements. You will be financially responsible for the terms of your University Housing Contract for the next academic year.

If you currently require special housing/ADA accommodations and would like to continue with the same accommodations for the next school year, we encourage you to select your same room during the Same Room Phase of Housing Sign-Up. If you want to select a new room, you must inform us of your needs within the Housing Sign-Up application (the assignment considerations link within the Personal Contact & Details Section of the contract.).

Check out our accommodations and assignment considerations page for more information.

Students who currently live in living-learning communities, non-visitation rooms, Scholars Community, Transfer Community and the Snyder substance-free hall may reassign to their same room, floor and/or hall during their  regular Housing Sign-Up access times.

Students not currently in one of these spaces may move to a special living option during the Any Hall/Room Phase. Additional requirements must be met for the Honors LLC and the Transfer Community.

The substance-free community option is available in all of Snyder Hall, a coed traditional residence hall located in the Ikenberry South Area. This substance-free community promotes and respects the personal choice to abstain from alcohol consumption in the hall or to participate in low-risk, responsible alcohol consumption outside of the hall. Within the hall, the substance-free living community prohibits the presence of alcohol for all residents and their guests, regardless of age and the associated results of intoxication. smoking and drugs are prohibited in every residence hall.

The substance-free community is an optional living area and requires a commitment from the student to abide by the substance-free lifestyle. All residents of the community are expected to abide by the substance-free lifestyle. If you wish to choose a substance-free room, select a room in Snyder Hall.