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Your Username & Initial Password was provided in your CMU Acceptance Letter Your MAVzone username is normally the first letter of your first name followed by the first seven letters of your last name.
To look up your username, go to the Campus Directory and use the search function.
Your username is the text in front of the @ in your email address.
Trouble? Call the IT Help Desk, 970.248.2111.
When you apply for housing, you MUST submit:
1 – Residence Life Application 2 – Residence Life & Dining Contract (signed by a parent/guardian if you are under 18) 3 – Residence Life Deposit
If any of these items are missing or incomplete, you will not be added into Roommate Selection or any Room Selection Lotteries.
Your friends might be able to add you as a roommate, but your status will read
Student Ineligible
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ECIDE WHERE YOU WANT TO LIVE
Plan for at least a 1 st , 2 nd and 3 rd choice. For example… 1 st choice: Tolman Single - If there aren’t any left…
Do I go for a Tolman Double or a Pinon Single?
2 nd choice: Pinon Single 3 rd
What if they are all taken as well?
choice: Tolman Double
C HOOSE YOUR ROOMMATES AND / OR SUITEMATES !
Review the Roommate Selection Guide Set up your “Roommate Group” (if you have one) starting February 20th Make sure everyone in your group has mutually requested each other so that you have a “fully matched” group before the earliest lottery time.
Make sure you all agree on a plan!
Which building, who goes in which room type within the suite, etc.
ROOMMATE SETUP BASICS To set up your roommate group, go to the Room Selection menu and click Roommate Selection Please see the Roommate Selection Guide for more information on setting up your roommate group
ROOMMATE SETUP BASICS When you click on “Room Selection” . . .
If you haven’t signed a Housing & Dining Contract you will be asked to accept the contract before continuing in the process.
Make sure you read and understand the contract.
Your online agreement to the contract is legally binding.
ROOMMATE SETUP BASICS Search for your roommates here.
If your roommate does not currently live on campus or has not applied for housing, you will not be able to add them yet.
As soon as you add a roommate, that student will receive an email notification on their MSC email account.
You can see which roommates are unmatched in your roommate group ROOMMATE SETUP BASICS Remember: You must have a fully matched group before you can choose a room!
CHOOSING A ROOM When your lottery is activated it will be RED on your Overview page.
Once your lottery is active you can view all available rooms before Your Start Time.
Go to the menu on the left Hover over “Room Selection” Click “Select a Room/Suite” to VIEW or SELECT a room.
You won’t be able to select a room until Your Start Time begins.
CHOOSING A ROOM
CHOOSING A ROOM Depending on your lottery (and how many rooms are left), you may have an opportunity to filter by Specific Hall.
To see all rooms across campus, just leave this filter as (any) and click “Find Available Rooms”
CHOOSING A ROOM List of Available Rooms
Select Room:
Click Select Room to place just yourself or to place you and one roommate (if it is a double with two open beds).
Select Suite:
Look at the Suite # then at the Rooms within that Suite. You can see how many doubles and/or singles are open within a suite to make sure it works for your group.
Floor Plan: Click Floor Plan to view the layout of the rooms on that floor.
Floor plans are also available on the Housing website, www.coloradomesa.edu/reslife, just click on Residence Halls or Apartments then on the link to the individual building.
CHOOSING A ROOM Now that you have selected your suite, simply place each mutually requested roommate into the rooms of the suite.
Make sure you place your friends in the spaces you agreed on!
Once you hit Submit Room Selection, this will be your permanent assignment for the upcoming academic year (as well as the permanent assignment of any roommates you place).
Remember, there are no room changes until the Room Change Lottery.
CHOOSING A ROOM FINAL CONFIRMATION Here is the screen you will see once your room selection is complete.
You and your roommates will receive an email confirmation on your MSC accounts.
All information will be immediately displayed on your MyHousing Overview. If you do not see this screen or your info on MyHousing Overview, please contact the Housing Office right away.
CHOOSING A ROOM Your new assignment will show up on your MyHousing Overview immediately.
o If you have a total of four people in your roommate group, you will only be shown suites & apartments (if eligible) where there are at least four available spaces o Males will be shown male rooms o Females will be shown female rooms o Non-freshmen will be shown apartments If you feel you should be eligible for a room type that you do not see displayed, please call or email Residence Life and we will determine your eligibility.
970.248.1536, [email protected]
o If you do not have someone in mind that you would like as a roommate, focus on choosing the best available room.
o Once you pick your room, you will immediately have roommate and/or suitemate contact information available on your MyHousing Overview.
o Get in touch with your roommates o Email, Call, Facebook, etc - whatever is best for you!
o If you want a different roommate, you have two options: o Participate in the Room Change Lottery o Call our office and any of our staff will be happy to look through available roommates with you. We’ll read you their hobbies, living preferences, etc, and you can decide if you want to switch.
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Remember: A match on paper is not always a perfect match and often students are happier with a roommate not exactly like themselves. More info on next slide . . .
You might wonder how compatibility matching will work since you are picking the room and learning about your roommate after.
CMU and other schools have found that traditional roommate matching works in some cases, but very often a match that looks good on paper does not make a perfect roommate pair. There are several variables:
Often students fill out lifestyle preferences based on how they want their roommate to be – not their true lifestyle (ie – a messy student may want a very neat roommate ) Sometimes the student is not the one filling out the application and the person acting on their behalf does not know the student as well as they think!
Lastly, as intuitive as we try to make our questions, there is always margin for error in interpreting the answers.
The most successful housing assignments are made by empowering the student - allowing the student to see all available rooms and choose the best room for them!
Questions?
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