Sophomore Housing
Sophomores continue their on-campus experience, building upon the relationships they built during their first year on campus. Most sophomores live in traditional residence halls. Some sophomores may be able to live in apartment-style housing. Please see Junior and Senior Housing for apartment-style buildings.
Process
Rising sophomores are required to live on campus for their sophomore year. All eligible rising sophomores complete a housing application via the Housing Portal, at the time they are notified to do so by Residential Life.
Accessing the Housing Portal
- Log into SIS.
- Click on “About Me,” then click on “Housing.”
- Once you have reached the Home Page, click on “Application” on the top left of the screen.
Types of Housing
Special Interest, Theme, and Fraternity/Sorority Housing
Students wishing to reside in a special interest, theme, or identity-based house also apply through the housing portal. Housing applications for students who are interested in living in theme, special interest, or fraternity/sorority housing are available to all students, even those with a waitlist number.
Two-Year Residency Requirement
Students are required to live on campus for the equivalent of four semesters in University-sponsored housing. Transfer students coming in as the equivalent of a sophomore student are not guaranteed to live on-campus for their full first year at Tufts but may be offered space as available. In the case of a student who studies abroad through a Tufts-approved program during their sophomore year, that semester counts as a semester on-campus for the four-semester residence requirement. A student who would start their fall semester as a second-semester sophomore may continue to be guaranteed housing for the entire academic year, however, as they would be a junior in their second/spring semester of that academic year, they would participate in the housing selection process with the other Juniors who received lottery numbers. Rising Sophomore students are required to remain on campus to comply with the residency requirement. Sophomore students whose fourth semester of their housing residency requirement is in the Fall of 2024, and who took leave from the University, will be offered the option to apply to campus housing for the full academic year or live off-campus. Students who took leave from the University for a full year will be considered to be their appropriately associated class year per their re-entry to the University.
