Submitting your application is the first step in your residence journey. Make sure you complete the following steps to ensure your application is complete and that you are ready for self-selection.
Step 1
Make sure that you have successfully submitted your residence application and paid the deposit.
Step 2
Submit a Residence Health or Non-Health Accommodation form (if necessary).
Step 3
Did you create a roommate group? Make sure that everyone in the group has responded to their invitation by June 2 at 4:00pm ET.
Step 4
Find out if you have been accepted into a Living Learning Community (LLC) if you applied to one.
Step 5
Take part in self-selection, where you will choose the building, floor, and room for the upcoming year.
Step 1: Make sure that you have successfully submitted your application and paid the deposit
Once you have completed your residence application, you will receive an automated email confirmation from reshouse@queensu.ca, along with a copy of your response in a separate email. If you do not receive these emails within 20 minutes of submitting your application, contact reshouse@queensu.ca to ensure your application was received. Make sure to check your spam or junk email folder first.
It can take up to 5 business days for the deposit charge of $805 to show on SOLUS. When you have paid your deposit, your will typically update within 5 business days to show a notice in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen confirming that your application is complete, and your deposit is paid. You will also receive an automated email confirmation. This is a separate communication from the ones you received when completing your application.
We will contact you on June 10 to confirm whether you have a residence space. If we cannot provide you with one, your deposit will be refunded.
How to pay your feesStep 2: Submit a Residence Health or Non-Health Accommodation form (if necessary)
As a first step, review our Intake Guide so you know what to do and what to expect. Access and submit forms via the .
Deadline for applying for accommodations: June 2, 2025, at 4:00 pm ET.
You will receive an automatic confirmation email upon successful submission of a Residence Accommodation Form (health or non-health). If you submit a request for a health/creed/spirituality/gender expression identity request before the June 2, 4:00pm ET deadline, we will contact you via email before June 27.
New or amended requests received after this date will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, but room availability may be limited, and late accommodation requests may not be able to be resolved prior to self-selection and/or move-in.
Accommodations Intake GuideStep 3: Did you create a roommate group? Make sure that everyone in the group has responded to their invitation by June 2 at 4:00pm ET
Between March 5 and June 2 at 4:00pm ET, if you invite someone into a roommate group, they will receive an email notification. All members of a roommate group will need to accept their invitation by the deadline and have successfully submitted their own application to residence by the deadline. Once the deadline has passed it is not possible to form new roommate groups or resolve incomplete groups.
Your roommate group will be cancelled, and you will be treated as individual applicants if one or more members of your roommate group:
- Has not submitted their application, has not accepted the roommate invitation, and/or has not paid their deposit by the deadline and/or
- Is not eligible for residence and/or
- Has not been guaranteed residence
Step 4: Find out if you have been accepted into a Living Learning Community (LLC)
If you have applied to a Living and Learning Community, we will contact you in late June/early July with the status of your application.
If you are successful, we will send a reminder about where the LLC will be located along with the opportunity to opt out, if you wish, by a specified deadline. To opt out, you must do so via the form on the . If you requested to be in a Unique Community, you will also have the option to opt-out.
Living Learning and Unique CommunitiesStep 5: Get ready for Self-Selection
Before self-selection, we will run a lottery to determine when you'll access the system to choose your residence space. You’ll receive your self-selection date and time via email during the week of July 7.
Self-selection webinar: July 9, 2025, at 6:00 pm ET.
Self-selection begins the week of July 14. Students with approved accommodations, those in Living and Learning Communities, Unique Communities applicants, or those requesting a Loft Double will select this week. Most students will self-select from July 23–25. If you haven’t selected a room by the time your self-selection period closes, the Residence Admissions team will assign you a space from the remaining inventory.
We strongly encourage you to plan ahead and have a list of your preferred buildings and room types (in order), ready to go, when you log in on your self-selection day and time. You can see residence floor plans and photos online on our building pages.
Self-Selection