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FIRST YEAR ELIGIBILITY AND PRIORITY HOUSING

Learn about the requirements to live in residence and whether you may qualify for priority housing consideration. Housing offers are based on eligibility, priority criteria, and application completion dates. We encourage students to apply as early as possible, as residence spaces are limited.

Guaranteed Housing

Guaranteed Housing

First Year Guarantee for Fall and Spring term (September to April)鈥�

Students entering 51猎奇入口directly from high school are eligible for guaranteed housing for Fall and Spring (September to April) To be eligible for SFU鈥檚 First Year Guarantee you must:鈥�

  • Apply for 51猎奇入口on campus student housing by May 1
  • Accept your 51猎奇入口admission offer by May 1
  • You confirm that you are鈥痚ligible to live in residence. See below
  • Be entering 51猎奇入口directly from high school without completing post-secondary studies after graduation

If you apply after May 1, you can still apply for residence, but your application will be considered through the regular application process

Eligibility

Eligibility requirement

To move into on campus student housing at 51猎奇入口or to be eligible to continue living in SFU鈥檚 residence community the following term, you must meet all 3 conditions / requirements below. Note that these conditions and requirements apply to ALL 51猎奇入口and FIC students.

  1. You must be an 51猎奇入口or FIC student
  2. You cannot have any overdue fees to 51猎奇入口or FIC including tuition and residence fees
  3. You must meet one (1) of the following three (3) criteria. You are an:
    • 51猎奇入口undergraduate student 
      1. Maintain full-time enrolment registered in at least 9 credit hours or equivalent for Fall and Spring terms (see Summer Housing exceptions or part-time enrollment exceptions in the鈥�Residence Handbook) or
      2. Be enrolled in an 51猎奇入口registered co-op work term or the Back on Track Program
    • FIC student
      1. Maintain full-time enrolment for each term that you are living in residence

Priority Housing

Some 51猎奇入口students who apply to residence qualify for Priority Housing Offer.

You must be eligible to receive an offer:

  • admitted to SFU
  • have no financial holds on your student account
  • have a completed application for housing

And Meet one of the following:

  1. Indigenous students: students admitted to 51猎奇入口who are First Nations, (Status or Non-Status), Metis or Inuit
  2. Current or former BC Youth in Care
  3. 51猎奇入口Undergraduate Scholars Entrance Scholarship Recipients (USES,UGGLA) and Student Athletes on a Full-ride Scholarship
  4. 51猎奇入口WUSC Student Refugee Program
  5. New students with a disability or ongoing medical condition that significantly affects your housing needs (Students complete an Accessibility Accommodation request in their application process and will then be asked to provide additional information demonstrating eligibility to be reviewed by the Centre for Accessible Learning)
  6. FALL INTAKE: Current residents (Fall/Spring) that are under 19 years of age by July 1 for the upcoming Fall term and have applied by February 1

Note: Priority Offers are based on available inventory when the application is completed (i.e. not the same as priority placement).

You must meet the following requirements:

  • You are eligible to live in residence
  • Your application to 51猎奇入口Housing is completed before May 1 (this generally means that you have completed your housing application prior to receiving your 51猎奇入口admission offer)
  • You have accepted your 51猎奇入口offer of admission by May 1
  • You are entering 51猎奇入口directly from high school (i.e. you have not completed any post-secondary coursework since graduating)

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