Undergraduate Housing
2009 SUMMER HOUSING INFORMATION AND PROCEDURES
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Click Here for the Summer 2009 Application and Departmental Confirmation Form
Click Here for the Summer 2009 Room Draw Proxy Designation Form
Click Here for the Summer 2009 Terms and Conditions Supplement
Click Here for the Summer 2009 Housing Department Payment Confirmation Form
* Please check this site regularly for any updates to this information
The most up-to-date information on available summer rooms will be posted at Summer Draw on Thursday, April 30th, 2009 in Room 319, Scully Hall.
WORK ALERT:
The following projects will be taking place through the summer and could result in increased noise and/ or dust. Please check back as additional information may become available.
- Blair/ Buyers
- Window screen improvements
- Final U-store construction
- Bloomberg
- Replacement of exterior doors
- Bathroom and hallway floor repairs
- Replacement of thermostats
- Final Butler College construction
- Edwards
- Exterior stone work
- Replacement of exterior doors
- Joline
- Replacement of exterior doors
The type and schedule of work on each of these projects may change as the summer progresses. No construction projects should begin before 7:00 am daily. Other projects may be added if needed. Please take this into account when choosing your room.
DESIGNATED SPACES AND KITCHENS
Approximately 350 spaces will be available for the full 11 week summer contract. All efforts will be made to house all summer housing applicants, although all applicants may not be able to draw into summer housing if the occupancy limit is reached. If this occurs, we will start a waitlist.
This year the following buildings will be used to accommodate students during the summer housing period: Blair, Buyers, Edwards, Joline, and 4th floor of Bloomberg.
If you are living in Blair, Edwards, Joline or the 4th floor of Bloomberg for the summer, there are full use kitchens available. Summer hours of operation for Dining Services can be found at http://www.princeton.edu/facilities/dining_services/hours/.
APPLICATION CRITERIA
The following criteria will be used in determining summer housing eligibility. Applications are processed in priority order as listed below. Only students meeting one or more of these criteria are eligible.
- Married Princeton University student(s). A copy of your marriage certificate is required.
- Princeton University students conducting senior thesis research, completing junior papers, or other independent work. Status must be verified by their independent work advisor and by their Advising Dean on the enclosed Departmental Confirmation form. (Any Class of ’09 student must make full payment at the Treasurer’s Office and provide a receipt showing payment in full in advance of signing a summer room contract.)
- Princeton University students working full time for the University (minimum 35 hours per week). Status must be verified on the enclosed Departmental Confirmation form by the faculty member or administrator for whom the student is working. (Any Class of ’09 student must make full payment at the Treasurer’s Office and provide a receipt showing payment in full in advance of signing a summer room contract.)
- Non-Princeton students working full time for the University (minimum 35 hours per week). Status must be verified on the enclosed Departmental Confirmation form by the faculty member or administrator for whom the student is working. All non-Princeton University students must make full payment at the Treasurer’s Office and provide a receipt showing payment in full in advance of signing a summer room contract. If paying by personal check, the check must be made out in U.S. dollars, made payable to " Princeton University ", and in the full amount of the housing contract.
- Students who are performing a service for the University, either at the University, or in the surrounding community. Participants must be verified on the Departmental Confirmation form by the administrator responsible for the organization. Federal Work Study participants doing community service summer projects must have their status verified by the University’s Federal Work Study Coordinator on the enclosed Departmental Confirmation form.
- Princeton University students who are part of a recognized student organization or team. Summer on-campus residence is dependent upon regular involvement in tasks that relate to the mission of that group.
INCOMING FRESHMEN AND STUDENTS RETURNING FROM A LEAVE OF ABSENCE ARE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR SUMMER HOUSING. Only students who are in good standing with the University are eligible for summer housing. Students taking a voluntary withdrawal or leave of absence, as well as students who have been required to withdraw are NOT eligible for summer housing. Please note that preparation for MCAT tests IS NOT a qualifying criterion for summer housing.
All confirmation letters (criteria 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6) must be completed before a contract can be signed.
APPLICATION DEADLINE
Applications are due by 4:30 p.m. on Friday, April 17, 2009. Late applications will be wait listed and given consideration, if space is available, after the selection and assignment process. There is no guarantee of housing for late applicants (see "Wait List" section below).
ROOM DRAW
Room draw for summer housing will take place on Thursday, April 30th, 2009 beginning at 9:30 a.m. in Room 319, Scully Hall. Draw times will be posted online on Friday, April 24th, after 5:00 p.m. The room selection rules will permit up to 4 students wishing to live together in the same suite the opportunity to do so by allowing them to draw with the person who holds the earliest time. Students must be present at draw or make proxy arrangements with the Undergraduate Housing Office prior to April 30th, 2009. Anyone missing a draw time, who still wishes to draw a room, must come in by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, May 1st, 2009 to choose a room, if any are available, and sign a contract.
Married applicants will be assigned first. Students with a full summer contract (11 weeks), who have drawn into Blair, Buyers, Edwards, Joline, or 4th floor of Bloomberg for the 2009-2010 academic year, will have the option to be assigned to that suite/room if the room is in the summer pool. These contracts must be signed by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, May 1st, 2009. Other students eligible for summer housing will be given draw times based on the following point system and then by the length of the contract within the category.
6 points: Princeton University students who are required to be on campus for the summer to conducting senior thesis research, completing junior papers, or other independent work.
5 points: Princeton University students voluntarily staying on campus for the summer to conducting senior thesis research, completing junior papers, or other independent work.
4 points: Princeton University students working full time for the University (minimum 35 hours per week).
3 points: Non-Princeton students working full time for the University (minimum 35 hours per week).
2 points: Students performing a service for the University, either at the University, or in the surrounding community.
1 point: Princeton University students who are part of a recognized student organization or team.
If space is not available for draw, some students with lower priority will be assigned to a space available after the draw occurs. Students given an assignment will be notified by e-mail and will have 3 working days after the date of notice to sign the contract. Failure to sign the contract in this time limit will void the contract offer for summer housing.
It is very important that should you find alternate accommodations for the summer that you contact the Housing Office via email addressed to emmamm@princeton.edu to let us know that you will not need summer housing. This allows us to update our records and provide housing to others who still require it.
AIR CONDITIONING
As you may expect, Princeton summers are very hot and humid. While fans are permitted, window air conditioning units are NOT permitted in any dormitories. The 4th floor of Bloomberg is expected to be air conditioned.
WAIT LIST
A wait list for students who apply for housing after the application deadline of April 17th, 2009, will be maintained for any space that becomes available through cancellations. Space will be assigned based on the "date of return" stamped on your application. There is no guarantee of summer housing for wait listed students. Therefore, off campus accommodations should be considered.
Only students fitting the criteria descriptions listed on page one are eligible.
CONTRACTS AND CANCELLATIONS
The length of a full 11 week summer contract will be from Monday, June 8 through Friday, August 21 on a space available basis. Full term summer contract students will move into their 2009-2010 academic rooms on Tuesday, September 1, 2009. Full contract students will stay in their summer rooms until the move around time on September 1st. The cost is $1,936.00 for a full term contract. If there is available space for partial contracts, the cost per week is $176.00, with a required four consecutive week minimum stay. No contracts are granted for less than four weeks. Due to dormitory preparations for Fall 2009, no contract may begin after July 26, 2009. A student may sign only one summer contract. It is not possible, for instance, to have one contract which ends in early July and another which begins in late July.
Only students who are in good standing with the University are eligible for summer housing. Students taking a voluntary withdrawal or leave of absence, as well as students who have been required to withdraw are NOT eligible for summer housing.
Any student canceling a signed contract will be charged a $300.00 cancellation fee. An additional charge of $200.00 will be assessed should a student cancel his/her contract prior to the start of their summer contract, but after the interim housing period has begun and if they remained on campus during that time. To cancel a contract a student must complete a cancellation form in the Undergraduate Housing Office. If you have picked up a room key, you must return it and remove your belongings from your room within 48 hours. Refunds will be processed only after the above actions are taken. Any student whose enrollment is terminated by the University must return their key and remove all belongings from their room within 48 hours. If keys are not returned, lock changes will be processed at the student’s expense.
INTERIM HOUSING
Students are expected to leave campus between non-senior room check out, Saturday, May 23, 2009 at 12 noon and the beginning of summer move-in on Monday, June 8, 2009. If for some reason a student is unable to do so, she/he is eligible for Interim Housing if they have signed a summer contract beginning on June 8, 2009, and have indicated that they require Interim Housing. Interim Housing will be from May 23 to June 8 for summer housing contract holders. To qualify for Interim Housing, you MUST check the appropriate space on the Summer Housing Application. ALL summer housing contract holders will move into the same interim housing dorms even if working reunions with another group. There will be no exceptions. Interim Housing assignments will be posted on line Friday, May 15, 2009 after 5:00 pm. Interim housing move around will occur on Sunday, May 24, 2009 from 1:00 pm. – 4:00 pm. Students should plan on staying in their current room on the evening of Saturday May 23rd, but you MUST move from your academic year room on Sunday May 24th. All summer students will remain in their interim rooms until June 8, which is the summer housing move-in date. There is no charge for Interim Housing. More information about Interim Housing will be available in the May Check-Out Brochure, available on the housing website. IF A SUMMER HOUSING CONTRACT IS CANCELLED, INTERIM HOUSING WILL BE CANCELLED AS WELL.
PLEASE NOTE: Although every effort is made to avoid this situation when possible, due to the availability of rooms there is a clear possibility that a summer housing student may be required to move twice: once from their academic year room into Interim Housing, and a second time from their Interim Housing room assignment to their Summer Housing room assignment.
If you indicate that you do not need interim housing, and your summer contract begins on June 8, this means you will completely move out of your academic year room by May 23 (including removal of all belongings). You will not be able to store your belongings in your summer room or elsewhere on campus.
KEYS
For students with summer housing contracts beginning on June 8, 2009, keys will be available at the Undergraduate Housing Office from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. Keys will NOT be available before this time as University workers must have unobstructed access to the dormitories prior to 9:00 a.m. on Monday, June 8, 2009. Students with a summer contract ending on Friday, August 21 who are not Princeton students must return their summer keys no later than 8:00pm on that same day. Current Princeton students will stay in their summer rooms until September 1st and then move to their fall rooms.
Summer Housing office hours after that will be between 8:30 am and 4:30 pm Mon - Fri. Students arriving on a Sunday, or after hours on business days (Mon - Fri) can be let in by calling Public Safety at 8-1000. Public Safety will verify the student’s authorization to move in from a roster supplied by Housing on a weekly basis, and will send an officer to let them in. Public Safety will not allow entry into a room earlier than the student's authorized contract date.
Contracts must be signed in person, not by proxy. No keys will be given out if the contract is not signed; no exceptions to this policy will be made. Keys that are not picked up and/or contracts that are not signed within 6 business days of the start of that contract period will result in the room being forfeited to a waitlisted summer housing applicant; in addition, the contract holder will be subject to the $300.00 cancellation fee.
Students with a contract ending prior to Friday, August 21, 2009 must return their keys, remove all of their belongings and leave campus effective the date the contract ends. Failure to do so will result in additional charges for housing, packing, storage, and/or keys. Non-return of keys within 24 hours after the end of your contract will result in a mandatory lock change and $50.00 non-returned key fee.
The Undergraduate Housing office is open Monday through Friday, from 8:30am until 4:30pm for those summer housing students returning their keys in person. Students returning their keys in person will receive a receipt for the returned key. For those students departing after these times, or during weekend hours, the Housing Office has a large grey metal key return box located in the courtyard behind the MacMillan Building . This box has a dispenser containing pencils and small brown key envelopes; neatly print your full name, room and dorm on the outside of the envelope, seal the key inside the envelope and deposit it in the box. No receipt is given for keys deposited in this box; instead, the student's key card is destroyed once the key is retrieved from the box to ensure that they are not billed for a non-returned key.
ROOM CHANGES
Room changes are not permitted during the summer housing contract period.
The Housing Office reserves the right to require students to move into vacancies that occur through the summer. For example, if a quad loses two people, the remaining two may be moved to another room so that the original room may be closed and cleaned in preparation for fall term students.
SUMMER MAINTENANCE
Please be aware before you sign your housing agreement that you may experience periods of inconvenience or noise resulting from construction or refurbishing. Summer provides the only opportunity to make repairs or improve mechanical systems in campus housing. Please consider this information before signing a contract. Refunds are not given on the basis of inconvenience resulting from construction or refurbishing.
FURNITURE POLICY
No furniture may be removed from any dormitory room during summer housing.
SUMMER TELEPHONE SERVICE
Summer residents living in dormitory rooms are provided with local and campus service. Those students remaining for summer session and who have signed up for telephone service will have long distance service using their PAC. Class of ’09 graduates and non-Princeton students residing in summer housing can place calls using a calling card, or by calling collect (AT&T: 800 CALL ATT). For more information, please refer to the OIT Telecommunications website.
PARKING
Parking will be available for summer residents who draw successfully at room draw. Current students with a valid parking permit are covered through the end of August, but individuals who do not currently have a parking permit can obtain one by contacting the Tiger Card/ Parking Office in New South Building . Additional information can be obtained from the Tiger Card/ Parking Office by calling 609-258-5436.
DORMITORY ENTRY DOORS
As in previous summers, dormitory entry doors will be locked at all times beginning at 9:00 p.m. on Monday, June 8, 2009. Contact the Tiger Card Office in New South Building, in person or by calling 8-5436, if you are a Princeton student and need a replacement Tiger Card. Non-Princeton students will be issued a temporary loaner card by the Undergraduate Housing office at the time they arrive to check in during normal operating hours.
PLEASE NOTE the following changes to the prox card system beginning this summer:
- All student Tiger Cards will be deactivated at the close of business on the second day after commencement.
- Students living in summer housing will continue to have their Tiger Card activated for the period of time indicated on their summer housing contract. Summer students approved for Interim Housing will have access to interim dorms during the interim period if they have been approved.
- Tiger Cards will only be activated for the summer dormitories – Blair, Buyers, Edwards, Joline, and Bloomberg. All Tiger Cards will be reactivated for the undergraduate dormitories the day of the summer housing move around.
END OF CONTRACT MOVE-OUTS BEFORE FRIDAY, August 21, 2009
When your contract ends, you must remove all of your belongings from your summer housing dormitory, return your key and depart. This also applies to students who will be living in a summer use dormitory for the academic year and have a contract ending before August 21, 2009. SUMMER HOUSING IS NOT AN ALTERNATIVE STORAGE AREA. Do not move furniture into your room for the summer unless you are capable of removing it when your contract ends. You may not leave any belongings in your summer room after your contract ends! Belongings left behind after your contract ends may be disposed of, and the student is liable for the cost of disposal.
END OF SUMMER MOVE-OUT
All students in housing through the end of the summer contract must schedule their moves between 9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 1, 2009. This is a strict deadline and no exceptions are possible. If you cannot move out of your summer room on this date you must make arrangements to do so before the end of the contract.
Only summer housing contract holders, who are current Princeton students with contracts that end on Friday, August 21, 2009, will be allowed to move in to their fall academic year rooms on September 1st. It is your responsibility to be on campus and move out of summer housing on this date. Non Princeton students must vacate and return their keys by 5 pm on August 21st.
ONLY CURRENT PRINCETON STUDENTS WITH CONTRACTS ENDING August 21, 2009 MAY HAVE ACCESS TO ACADEMIC YEAR ROOMS ON September 1, 2009.
PLEASE NOTE: YOU CANNOT HAVE ACCESS TO YOUR ACADEMIC YEAR ROOM PRIOR TO SEPTEMBER 1.
Current Princeton students whose contract ends on August 21, 2009 will stay in their summer rooms and move to their fall rooms on Tuesday, September 1st. Students who have not removed their belongings from their summer housing space by 8:00 p.m. on September 1st, will be assessed a labor charge for the time University staff expends to remove and store your belongings. In addition, you may be referred to the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students for disciplinary action.