Housing Accommodations

The StAAR Center supports students with disabilities in on-campus housing settings. We work with students and our colleagues in Residential Life and Facilities to ensure that approved housing accommodations are implemented appropriately. 

Students interested in requesting new housing accommodations should visit our Get Started with Accommodations webpage. Please note the housing accommodation deadlines as set by the StAAR Center and Residential Life. Approved accommodations may be limited and/or subject to the waitlist after the indicated dates.

For more information about housing at Tufts, including information about the housing application and lottery process, specific on-campus buildings, or living off campus, please visit the Residential Life website.

All rising sophomores, including students with approved housing accommodations, must follow the housing application and lottery process through Residential Life. 

Students with approved housing accommodations will be contacted by a Residential Life team member to discuss spaces that meet their accommodations. Based on this conversation, students have two options:

1. Choose one of the options that meet your accommodations, as discussed with Residential Life. After your choice has been communicated to Residential Life, you can inform your friends where you’ve been placed, and encourage them to select space nearby during the lottery.
2. Choose to forgo using your accommodations, and instead participate in the lottery with a group (i.e. to select a suite), or by yourself. 

Students interested in requesting new housing accommodations should visit our Get Started with Accommodations webpage. Please note the housing accommodation deadlines as set by the StAAR Center and Residential Life. Approved accommodations may be limited and/or subject to the waitlist after the indicated dates.

Tufts policies state that juniors and seniors are not guaranteed on-campus housing. 

All rising juniors and seniors who would like to live on campus during the next academic year, including students with approved housing accommodations, must follow the  housing application and lottery process through Residential Life. Students who receive a lottery number through this process will be given the option to live on campus for the next academic year. 

If a student does receive a lottery number and then chooses to live on campus, their current approved housing accommodations will carry over, unless they have heard otherwise from a StAAR team member. In most cases, housing accommodations can be automatically met by any space selected in the lottery. If a student's specific accommodations can’t be automatically met, they will hear from a Residential Life team member about how to select a space.

Students interested in requesting new housing accommodations should visit our Get Started with Accommodations webpage. Please note the housing accommodation deadlines as set by the StAAR Center and Residential Life. Approved accommodations may be limited and/or subject to the waitlist after the indicated dates.

Pachyderm Place

Pachyderm Place leases are not overseen by Residential Life or the StAAR Center. Therefore, accommodations approved by the StAAR Center for on-campus housing do not apply to Pachyderm Place. All questions or concerns regarding Pachyderm Place must be submitted directly to Capstone Management Partners.