Room Selection Process

• If you entered SUNY Cortland in August 2024 as a freshman, including freshman transfers (0-25.5 credit hours) you have a freshman and sophomore year on-campus housing requirement
  • Required to live on campus for four semesters; you must participate in RSP
• If you entered SUNY Cortland in January 2025 as a transfer (including current junior and sophomore transfers) you have a one year on-campus requirement.
  • Required to live on campus for two semesters; you must participate in RSP

All housing processes will take place from the housing portal via myRedDragon. To access anything housing-related, complete the following steps or select the direct link:

1. Log in to your myRedDragon.
2. Select the “Student” tab.
3. Under Residence Life and Housing select “Housing Process and Information.”

1. Log-in to the Housing Portal
2. Select Applications.
3. Click Create Application or Continue Application
   
   1. If you have not already completed the profile confirmation. be sure this is completed before you continue.
4. Complete your application.
   1. Complete each section of the application by answering all questions then clicking continue at the bottom.
5. Submit your application.
   1. Click complete once you have finished all sections.
   2. A confirmation window will pop up, click confirm to finalize your submission.

View screenshots of how to fill out your RSP form

Students participating in RSP are no longer required to have a roommate to select prior to the occupancy restriction being lifted. The housing selection process has been divided into two different tracks to accommodate all participants. Housing tracks will lock after the March 18 roommate deadline. Students looking to change/remove their roommate matches will need to wait until the occupancy restriction has been lifted. 

• SUNY Cortland Red Track
  • All rooms and suites in this housing selection track must be filled to meet the set occupancy requirements.
    • Example: to select a suite, you must have a roommate group size that matches the suite occupancy capacity.
    • IMPORTANT: Suites, quads and apartments have limited availability. Though you may have the appropriate group size to fill a suite as outlined above, there may no longer be any available. More than half of current freshmen will be unable to select a suite, quad or apartment.
  • All roommate groups should make backup plans for your 2025-2026 housing prior to your selection time.

• SUNY Cortland White Track
  • Selection process for students without roommate requests. Students are able to request roommates until 11:59 p.m. on March 18, 2025.
    
    • Important: only students without roommates will be eligible for this housing selection track. Students with roommate requests will not be eligible to select rooms in this housing selection.
  • Rooms and suites available in this track do not have a set occupancy requirement.
    • Example: to select a bed space in a suite, you do not need a roommate group size that matches the suite occupancy capacity. 

Choosing a roommate/roommates in the housing portal:

1. Navigate to Applications from the navigation bar
2. Select the application for which you'd like to create a roommate group
3. Click Roommates to access the roommate group settings
4. Click Roommate Group to form the group
5. Click Copy to generate and copy a unique invitation URL
6. Click a profile card to view available contact methods and send invite
7. Accept or decline roommate request sent to you
8. Continue with these steps until you have the desired number in your group (up to a total of six individuals)

View screenshots of how to form your roommate group

Please Note: RSP Applications are required to be Approved by Residence Life and Housing in order to form a group. We are working on getting this auto-approved, but, at the moment, we will be approving on weekdays twice daily. Please remember that all members of your group must have completed the RSP Application and be approved in order to form a group.

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For students looking to swap a space for another within an apartment/quad/suite, email residencelifeandhousing@cortland.edu. Room switches will not be offered during the 2025-2026 selection.

Pay one of two ways:

• At Student Accounts, Brockway Hall, Jacobus Lounge, between 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
• With your Visa, MasterCard, American Express or Discover Card on myRedDragon
  • Under the Student Tab and the Residence Life and Housing section choose "Pay Room Deposit Online"
  *Student staff members, EOP students, and C.U.R.E. students will receive a room deposit waiver. Waivers will be processed by the residence life and housing staff.

If you do not require on-campus housing next year for any reason (met requirement, withdrawing, transferring, internship, student teaching, etc.) complete the Release from Housing form for Fall 2025 on the Housing Portal.