Room Selection

Room Selection gives you the opportunity to select a room for the 2023-24 academic year. Room types/options are based on availability. For a step-by-step guide of the Room Selection process, we recommend viewing our General Room Selection Overview video.

You will be notified via email and provided an assigned time slot that will be used to select your room within the Campus Housing portal of myUK. Your Room Selection time slot is determined by your UK Admissions Track and the Housing and Dining Application completion date. For a step-by-step guide of the Room Selection process, we recommend viewing our General Room Selection Overview video.

Yes, you will participate in Room Selection if you have a completed housing application. In order for you to have a housing assignment, you must select your room through the Room Selection process.

Based on when you were admitted to the university and when you completed your housing application, you will be sent an email notifying you of the day and time you will participate in Room Selection. We strongly encourage you to select your space as soon as your Room Selection window opens, so that you may have optimal choices when selecting your room.

• For those who have accepted an LLP offer, you can expect to participate in Room Selection in early March.
• For those not participating in an LLP, you can expect to participate in Room Selection in early June.
• If you are a student returning to UK Campus Housing, you can select your room as soon as you submit your housing application.

If you do not have a confirmed roommate, others without a roommate will be able to see you in your room space. They can also view the profile information you submitted as part of your application, if you have chosen to display this information. This is how other students can tell if you might have some common interests and would make a good roommate match. We recommend viewing our Room Selection: Solo (Finding a Roommate) video. 

All LLP students, with the exception of Community of Scholars, are required to live with students in their same LLP.  Click here to view some frequently asked questions pertaining to LLPs.

Community of Scholars students are the only LLP students allowed to room with students outside that LLP; however, we ask that you notify UK Campus Housing by emailing ukhousing@uky.edu or calling 859-257-1866 to officially process this request. 

Yes. You are not required to be in a roommate group to participate in Room Selection. When your assigned time slot opens, you can still select a space without first selecting a roommate. Only rooms available to you and those students in your specific LLP will be visible. If you are looking at a specific space, you can hover over an occupant’s name with your mouse to view more information about that student to determine if they would be a good match as a roommate. To view some commonly asked questions pertaining to LLPs, please click here. We also recommend watching our Room Selection: Solo (Finding a Roommate video.

Yes. First, make sure you have applied to the Living Learning Program by May 19 and officially accepted your LLP offer by May 26. With the exception of the Community of Scholars LLP, students participating in a Living Learning Program are expected to live with other students in that same LLP. You will need to log into myUK and return to the Roommate Requests section of the Housing portal to use the Roommate Matching feature. This feature allows you to search for students who are also members of your LLP. Each student’s chosen LLP can be seen when you view their information. More information about the Living Learning Program at UK can be found here. 

Yes. If you no longer intend to participate in an LLP, you will need to officially decline your LLP offer within the Housing portal of myUK before May 26. Once the offer has been declined, you can consider yourself released from the LLP and may now select a different room, residence hall or roommate(s) by using the Room Swap function. All changes must be submitted prior to the closing of the Room Selection window at 11:59 p.m. on July 16. 

This could mean a couple things. 

1. You need to create and verify your roommate group within the Roommate Requests section of the housing application in myUK. We recommend viewing our General Room Selection Overview video and Room Selection: Preferred Roommates video for step-by-step instructions. 
2. You have selected roommates outside of your LLP. REMINDER: Students participating in an LLP are expected to live with another student in the same LLP, unless you are joining the Community of Scholars LLP.  To check that your roommates are members of the same LLP as you, log into myUK and visit the Roommates Requests section of your housing application. Once there, you will be able to view each student’s chosen LLP. If you discover that any of the students within your created roommate group do not belong to your same LLP,  you will need to use the Roommate Matching feature within the Housing portal to search for students who are also members of your LLP. Each student’s chosen LLP can be seen when you view their information.
3. If you have confirmed that both of the above items have been correctly completed and are still experiencing difficulty, please reach out to UK Campus Housing for assistance by emailing ukhousing@uky.edu or calling 859-257-1866. 

No. Community of Scholars students are the only LLP students allowed to room with students outside that LLP; however, we ask that you notify UK Campus Housing by emailing ukhousing@uky.edu or calling 859-257-1866 to officially process this request. 

To view a list of commonly asked questions about LLPs, please click here. 

If you are having trouble locating a certain room type within our system, it may be because those room types have all been filled and are no longer available to select. Some room types, like the 2-Bedroom Suite, are popular and therefore, reserved more quickly. You are welcome to check back within the Campus Housing portal of myUK as often as you like to see if other students change their minds and release your preferred room type. There can be no guarantees that this will occur, but it does happen occasionally as students solidify their plans for the fall semester.

The Room Swap function within the Campus Housing portal of myUK allows you to view available rooms to move yourself into a new space. This function is ideal for students who have already chosen their room or bed space and would like to change residence halls or choose new roommates. You can swap rooms as many times as you like up until your Room Selection window closes. For more details on the Room Swap function, we recommend viewing our Room Selection: Room Swap video.

When viewing students whose names appear within a bed space, you can hover your mouse over each student's name to find out more information about them. If they have chosen not to make their information public, the term “hidden” will appear when you hover your mouse over their name.

If you have any questions throughout the application process, including Room Selection and Room Swap, please call us at (859) 257-1866 or email us at ukhousing@uky.edu.