Application Process

• Click on Log into the Housing Web Portal.
• Click “Apply for Housing.”
• Click on desired application.
• Follow the steps to submit the agreement. A $50 non-refundable housing application fee is required during this process. Your application will not be processed until you have agreed to the Terms and Conditions, paid the fee, and hit the submit button. You should plan on completing this process in one sitting.

• Fall 2024/Spring 2025
• West Lake Village 2024-2025
• Academic Year 2025-2026 (August - May)
• West Lake Village 2025-2026 (August - August)

View the full Academic Calendar

Spring 2025

January 4 - May 3

Fall 2025

August 14 - December 14

Summer 2025

You must be registered for classes to live on campus during the summer. Some academic sessions overlap and will affect which housing term you should choose.

New residents (Summer B housing application available starting March 10, 2025) : First year students are typically only admitted for Summer B courses and will only see a Summer B term listed on the housing application. Transfer and upperclass students may be eligible for all summer terms and will need to email housing@fgcu.edu after submitting the summer application indicating which summer terms they plan to enroll.

Current residents (Summer housing application available starting March 10 at 9 AM): may be eligible for all summer terms and will need to carefully select the applicable summer terms on the housing application.

Academic Dates
Term	Start	End
Summer A	Monday, May 12	Saturday, June 21
Summer B	Monday, June 23	Saturday, August 2
Summer C	Monday, May 12	Saturday, July 19

Current residents: Please pay careful attention to the following chart as you make your summer term selection on the summer housing application, paying special attention the highlighted segments.

Which Summer Term Do I Choose?
If You're Taking Classes During These Terms...	Then Select This Term for Housing
Summer A Only	Summer A Only
Summer B Only	Summer B Only
Summer C Only	Summer C Only
Summer A and B	Summer A and B
Summer A and C	Summer C Only
Summer B and C	Summer A and B

A roommate group is a feature in the Housing Portal that allows you to create a group of roommates before selecting a room. By creating your group in advance, you can keep track of who is in your group and ensure that everyone is together on the day the room, suite, or apartment is selected.

Before you can create or join a roommate group, you must have a completed housing application.

Once you have a completed housing application, log into the Housing Portal and select "Continue" on your housing application. If you already have a group, it will show that group. If you don't, you'll only see the "Create Group" button. 

You can only invite people to a group if you're the leader. If you are a member of a group, you will need to ask the leader to do the inviting.

You can search for roommates by "Details" (UIN) or "Profiles" (Roommate Profile questionnaire responses).

Once you invite them and select "Finish," they will receive an email notifying them of their pending invitation. In addition, every other member of the group will get an email notifying them that someone else was invited.

Desired roommates MUST have completed the same application as the leader. An Academic Year applicant cannot form a roommate group with a West Lake Village applicant. Additionally, current residents cannot form roommate groups with new housing applicants (those not currently living on campus during returning room selection).

To respond to an invitation, you will log into the Housing Portal and select "Continue" on your housing application. At the bottom of the Roommate Group Manager page, you will see your group, its members, and each member's status. To the left of your name, you will see two buttons: Accept and Reject. Note that whichever option you choose, the other members of the group will receive an email notifying them of your choice.

While we encourage you to make a decision on every invitation, you may choose not to reply. If you do not reply, other members of the group will see that you have not responded when they check the group status. In addition, if you do not reply, you will not be considered a member of the group, so if the group selects a room before you accept, you will not be assigned with them. We encourage you to make a decision so potential group members know if you wish to be included or not.

If You Are the Group Leader
Log into the Housing Portal and select "Continue" on your housing application. At the bottom of the roommate group page, you will see a red "Leave" button next to your name. The group members will receive an email informing them that you left the group. If you leave the group, the entire group will be disbanded and the rest of your group will need to start over if they wish to be in a group together.

If You Are a Group Member
Log into the Housing Portal and select "Continue" on your housing application. At the bottom of the roommate group page, you will see a red "Leave" button next to your name. If you leave the group, the rest of the group will receive an email notifying them that you left the group.

When you log in to select a room, you will only see room options that are large enough to accommodate your entire group.

Once you have selected a room/suite/apartment, you will be asked to identify which roommate lives in which particular room. After placing each roommate in a room, select "Assign Beds" and you will be assigned. You and each of your roommates will receive an email notifying you that you have been assigned.

If you see a message that says no rooms are available, there may be no rooms left that can accommodate your entire roommate group. For example, you may have 4 people in your group, but there may only be suites available with three or fewer open spaces. In this instance you would need to consult with your roommate group on how to split your group up. To do this, you can go back to the roommate group page and remove the roommates you do not wish to assign at this time. Then, when you move forward, you can select a room for only you and some of the group. The rest of the group can assign themselves together elsewhere during their selection timeslot. They will need to form a new group with a new leader in order to select a room together.

We do not recommend removing someone from the group unless you tell them you're going to do it in advance.

No. You will need to recreate your Roommate Group each year you choose to live on campus.

Our system can only assign people as directed by you. If you and your roommates were not assigned together, then the student who selected the space for your group removed one or more of your roommates before selecting a room. The system will not mistakenly separate students. 

If Room Selection is still open, you may be able to live with them. However, you will not be assigned with them automatically. If you know where your friend is living, you can try to select a bed space in their room, suite, or apartment. 

Under typical circumstances, non-first year applicants (those with 30 or more credit hours) would have had the opportunity to participate in room selection in May. However, this year, we had an overwhelming demand from our current residents to return to on-campus housing for the next academic year, so all eligible spaces are currently assigned. Non-first year applicants are only eligible for the same room types and communities as our returning students. Therefore, we have initiated a waiting list.

We administer a waiting list because many students have a change in circumstance from the time they were assigned and the start of the academic term. Therefore, many of those on the waiting list will get assigned. Applicants' position on the waiting list is determined by the housing application complete date (agreement signed and application fee paid).

If space becomes available, we will contact the applicant via Eagle e-mail to offer a room, so it is imperative that applicants check Eagle e-mail daily. Please note -- we will not be able to fulfill roommate requests, as we anticipate only having single spaces to offer to students at any given time. Due to the nature of this process, rooms may not be available for weeks or months. We will work diligently to get through the waiting list until the end of the first week of Fall classes.

As applicants check Eagle e-mail daily, they may receive one of the following e-mail messages:

• Room offer – A room offer email will indicate that we have a vacancy and provide the building, room number, room type (NLV 4-bedroom single, NLV 2-bedroom double, or Osprey 3-bedroom single) and cost where the vacancy exists. It will not provide specific information about roommates. Roommate details are only provided to students after securing a room (this is true in all of our room selection/assignment processes). Applicants will have 48 hours to reply to the email to accept or decline the offer. If accepted, we will assign the room and send a confirmation email. If the offer is declined, the applicant will come off the waiting list and may not rejoin the waiting list or be placed at the end of the waiting list. If there is no response to the email, the applicant will come off the waiting list.
• Action required to stay on the waiting list – Periodically, we will require that students log into the Housing Web Portal to indicate they want to remain on the waiting list. The applicant must complete this task within 48 hours or will come off the waiting list.
• Waiting list update – Starting MAY 2025 DATE TBD, we will send out waiting list numbers and bi-weekly updates about our progress on the waiting list. These updates are typically sent out close to 5 PM so we can accomplish as much administrative processing of cancellations and offers before providing an update. Numerous factors impact the waiting list offers, including gender, ADA accommodation, etc.

It is critical to check Eagle e-mail daily. We highly recommend connecting Eagle e-mail to a mail application that provides notifications when emails are received (ITS provides instructions for how to set this up online at https://fgcu.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360039871951-Accessing-your-FGCU-email-on-a-mobile-device).

If the applicant is no longer interested in on-campus housing and does not want to be on the waiting list or does not plan to attend FGCU, they must complete the on-line cancellation form by logging into the Housing Web Portal and clicking on the Cancellation Request Form button. Notifying another office at FGCU of changed plans does not constitute a request for cancellation of the Housing Agreement. Students may cancel the Housing Agreement prior to assignment without an approved reason and without financial penalty.

Some applicants will not be able to get on-campus housing, so we recommend that all applicants consider alternative housing arrangements by researching off-campus housing options. There are off-campus housing options available close to the FGCU campus. There are many apartments, houses, and townhouses that cater to students, some of which are within walking distance of our campus. Here are a few resources you can use to find off-campus housing options:

• offcampushousing.fgcu.edu
• Apartments.com, Zillow, Trulia, and other online listing sites that offer apartments, houses and townhouses for rent.

We appreciate your patience and understanding as we work through this process. If you have any questions, please contact us by phone at 239-590-1700 or by email at housing@fgcu.edu (please include the name on your application and UIN). Thank you for your interest in living on-campus at Florida Gulf Coast University. 

The room selection process for 2025-2026 will occur MAY 2025 DATE TBD (or until all rooms are assigned).

Additional information, including room selection date and time, will be sent to student Eagle e-mail addresses by 5 pm on MAY 2025 DATE TBD. 

Room Selection Eligibility
For applicants to be eligible for room selection, they must have completed the following:

• Completed the housing application (includes signed Terms & Conditions, co-signature if the applicant was under the age of 18 at the time of application, and paid $50 non-refundable application fee).
• If new to FGCU, paid the $200 admissions deposit.
• If you are a new undergraduate student, you must register for an orientation session (https://www.fgcu.edu/firstyearexperience/orientation/).

Community/Room Type Eligibility
Undergraduate students that are First Time in College (FTIC), Transfer students/Dual Enrolled students with under 30 credit hours are eligible for the following:

• South Village – Everglades, Biscayne, Palmetto, Eagle, Osprey (Floors 1-3)
  • 2-bedroom single (Everglades, Biscayne, Palmetto)
  • 3-bedroom single (Palmetto)
  • 2-bedroom single w/kitchenette (Eagle, Osprey)
  • 3-bedroom single w/kitchenette (Eagle, Osprey)
• North Lake Village – Building A, B, E, F
  • 2-bedroom double

Room selection guides are available on the “Application Process” page of our website for each community. These guides show community layouts, apartment numbers, amenities, etc.

Due to high demand for on-campus housing, some applicants may not be able to select their first choice of room type or location during the room selection period. We strongly encourage applicants to have several building and room type options in mind before starting the room selection process.

Timeline

• MAY 2025 DATE TBD | All eligible applicants will receive an email, at the end of the day, with a specific date and time for room selection. Applicants start time is determined primarily by the housing application complete date.
• MAY 2025 DATE TBD | Honors LLC applicants can choose rooms on Palmetto 5^th floor only
• MAY 2025 DATE TBD (or until all available rooms are assigned) | General room selection
  • Groups of approximately 200 eligible applicants will have access to start selecting rooms at 3 and 4 PM each business day

Roommates
Based on availability, you may have the ability to assign rooms for yourself and desired roommates, by forming a roommate group. More information about this process will be posted soon.

If you do not have preferred roommates, you will proceed with room selection for yourself and choose any available room.

***It is imperative that you have more than one plan for room selection with roommates because there may not be enough vacancies in an apartment to satisfy your preferred number of roommates (i.e. – 3 applicants want to live together, but only 2-bedroom singles remain vacant or 2 spaces in a 3-bedroom single remain vacant. In this scenario, you will need to split the roommate group and only 2 of the preferred roommates can be placed together at that time).***

You must be a current resident without a past due balance (any balance from a previous term or more than 1 late spring housing installment) to participate in this process. If you checkout before February 21 (end of returning room selection), your 2025-2026 housing application will be cancelled as this process is only available to current residents. 

Returning Room Selection is a two-step process.  

• STEP ONE:  Re-apply in the Housing Web Portal | February 3 (starting at 9 AM) – February 9 (ending at 11:59 PM). We will not accept applications after 11:59 PM on February 9. 
  • West Lake Village 2025-2026 (11.5 months) – covers West Lake Village from August 2025– August 2026.
  • Academic Year 2025-2026 – covers North Lake Village and Osprey Hall in South Village from August 2025 – May 2026.
• You can only choose one of the available applications.
• STEP TWO: Select Your Room | WLV starting February 10 and Academic Year (NLV/Osprey) starting February 18.
  • WLV | February 10 [Same room renewal - “Squatting”]
  • Residents that want to remain in the same exact bed space can select their room.
  • WLV | February 11 [Same room renewal roommate selection and assignment - “Squatter pull-in”]
  • Residents that renewed the same exact room may pull-in desired roommates to available vacancies in the same apartment.
  • WLV | February 12 – February 13 [General Room Selection]
  • WLV applicants select available room during designated timeslot.
  • WLV | February 14 [Academic Year Application creation]
  • If there are no more vacancies at your room selection time, we will create an Academic Year (NLV/Osprey) application on your behalf so you can still participate in the Academic Year room selection process.
  • Academic Year (NLV/Osprey) | February 18 – February 21
  • Academic Year applicants select available room during designated timeslot.
  • If there are no vacancies at your room selection time, we will send you instructions on joining the waiting list.
• Each resident will receive a specific timeslot where they can select an available room. Timeslots are determined by each student's original housing application complete date without breaks. Timeslots will be sent via Eagle email at 9 AM February 10 for WLV and 9 AM February 17 for NLV/Osprey.

*** Pull-in roommates must have a completed application and meet community eligibility (i.e. - NEW applicants are not eligible for pull-in)***

Applicants, with a confirmed room assignment, will have until March 23 at 11:59 PM (Eastern) to submit a Housing Cancellation Request via the Housing Web Portal that will be approved without a cancellation fee or an approved reason. Thereafter, applicants, with a confirmed room assignment, are bound by the Terms & Conditions of the Housing Agreement, which includes the cancellation policy and associated fees.

SoVi Room Selection Guide NLV Room Selection GuideWLV Room Selection Guide

You will have the option to create a roommate profile and create a roommate group during the Returning Room Selection process.

• Roommate profile – a 12-question profile will be accessible on the housing web portal after completing your application. It asks questions regarding study habits, sleeping, guests, etc. This can be used later in the process to try to find potentially compatible roommates.
• Roommate groups – you will have the opportunity to form roommate groups that provide the ability to select rooms for yourself and other confirmed members of your roommate group during room selection. These roommates must be current residents who are participating in the Returning Room Selection process (completed a 2025-2026 housing application). Applicants can create/delete a roommate group, invite other applicants (by University ID number or roommate profile matching), and accept/decline an invitation.

New applicants to housing (those not currently residing on campus, regardless of classification) are not eligible for your roommate group. Part of our historical process allowed current residents to select new applicants as roommates; this prevented current residents from securing housing. In a continued effort to prioritize our current residents, we will not allow new applicants to be selected as roommates in the room selection phase of the process.

Information about rental rates can be found through the following links:

Upperclass & Transfer Housing Options

We have received record interest from residents wanting to return to on-campus housing and do not have enough rooms to accommodate everyone during the room selection phase of this process. Residents unable to secure a room during this phase will have the option to join the waiting list until 11:59 PM on March 23. Waiting list numbers will be provided the week of March 24.

If space becomes available, we will contact applicants via Eagle e-mail, so make sure to check Eagle e-mail daily. Rooms may not be available for weeks or months, so applicants must be patient. We will process the waiting list based on the earliest consecutive housing application complete date, not in the order residents join the waiting list. 

We will not be able to accommodate roommate requests, as we usually only have single spaces to offer to students at any given time. Our priority is to provide housing to as many students as possible and may not be able to satisfy all preferences for community, room type, and roommates.

As residents check Eagle e-mail daily, they may receive one of the following e-mail messages: 

• Room offer – A room offer email will indicate that we have a vacancy and provide the building, room number, room type and cost where the vacancy exists. It will not provide specific information about roommates. Roommate details are only provided to students after securing a room (this is true in all of our room selection/assignment processes). Applicnts will have 48 hours to reply to the email to accept or decline the offer. If they accept, we will assign the room and send a confirmation email. If the applicant declines the offer, they will come off the waiting list; applicants may not rejoin the waiting list or be placed at the end of the waiting list. If they do not reply to the email, they will come off the waiting list. 
• Action required to stay on the waiting list – Periodically, we will require that residents log into the Housing Web Portal to indicate they want to remain on the waiting list. They must complete this task within 48 hours or they will come off the waiting list.
• Waiting list update – Every other Friday.  These updates are typically sent out close to 5 PM so we can accomplish as much administrative processing of cancellations and offers before providing an update. Numerous factors impact the waiting list offers, including gender, ADA accommodation, etc.

It is critical that you check your Eagle e-mail daily. If you have a smartphone, we highly recommend connecting your Eagle e-mail to a mail application that provides notifications when emails are received (ITS provides instructions for how to set this up online at https://fgcu.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360039871951-Accessing-your-FGCU-email-on-a-mobile-device). 

If residents are no longer interested in on-campus housing and do not want to be on the waiting list or do not plan to attend FGCU, please complete the on-line cancellation form by logging into the Housing Web Portal and clicking on the Cancellation Request Form link on the application summary page. Notifying another office at FGCU of your plans does not constitute a request for cancellation of your Housing Agreement. Students may cancel the Housing Agreement prior to assignment without an approved reason and without financial penalty. 

Some applicants will not be able to get on-campus housing, so we recommend that all applicants consider alternative housing arrangements by researching off-campus housing options. There are off-campus housing options available close to the FGCU campus. There are many apartments, houses, and townhouses that cater to students, some of which are within walking distance of our campus. Here are a few resources you can use to find off-campus housing options:

• Off campus marketplace – FGCU has partnered with College Pads to provide a marketplace of off campus options (offcampushousing.fgcu.edu). We do not own, operate, or endorse any of the properties listed.
• Apartments.com, Zillow, Trulia, and other online listing sites that offer apartments, houses and townhouses for rent.

Honors students have the option to select a room in the Honors Building prior to general room selection. Honors College participants will receive specific correspondence about this process.

• All Honors building rooms that have not been assigned before the room selection phase of Returning Room Selection will be available to non-honors program students.

• Identify sub-lessee
  • It is the responsibility of the current resident to find an FGCU student to sublease their room. Previous residents have had success in telling friends, groups, and classmates about their intent to sublease.
  • Post to social media roommate or class year groups - You may list your name on these pages to advertise that you would like to sublease.
• Schedule an appointment with WLV Housing Specialist (Mary Eggleston | 239-590-7675 | meggleston@fgcu.edu) to complete the sublease agreement and pay sublease fee.
  • The current resident and sub-lessee must be available for the same appointment date/time.
• Complete proper checkout.

• Application fee for sub-lessee - $50 (check or money order due at time of signing)
• Sublease fee for current WLV resident (posted to Bill & Payment Center)
  • Before April 15 - $100
  • After April 15 - $150
• Summer rental fees (payments due May 1 and June 1) - Rental rates are listed above (https://www.fgcu.edu/studentlife/housing/thefgculife/westlakevillage#Costs)

 Current WLV resident checkout

• 24 hours after your last final exam or on Saturday May 3 by 8 PM; whichever is earlier (graduating students may checkout through Monday, May 5 by 12 PM).

Sub-lessee check-in

• If sub-lessee currently lives in North Lake Village or South Village for Spring, they will stay in their current assignment until transfer day on Saturday, May 10 (If you are unable to transfer on this day, you must checkout 24 hours after last final exam or 8 PM, Saturday May 3, whichever is earlier).
  • WLV key pick-up begins at 9 AM at the WLV Community Center.
  • Checkout of current room completed no later than 5 PM in current community center/building front desk.
  • If the WLV room is ready sooner, Residence Life staff will contact the sub-lessee to arrange a check-in time.
• If sub-lessee is new to campus housing for Summer, check-in will begin at 9 AM on Saturday, May 10^th in the WLV Community Center.

Summer resident with

• Same Fall WLV assignment – Remain in current space/no transition
• Different Fall WLV assignment – Transfer to new room on Saturday, August 2 – Tuesday, August 5 (Based on room availability/readiness – Residence Life may provide an alternate date and time in August).
• Fall NLV/SoVi assignment – Transfer to new room on Saturday, August 2 starting at 9 AM.
• No Fall assignment – Checkout Saturday, August 2 by 8 PM (Including graduating students)