For the 2025-2026 Housing Cycle, the following Class Definitions will apply:
- Students are assigned by default to the draw associated with their academic year. Students may request a draw reclassification if their academic year does not align with their original matriculation class.
- All students who were originally members of class 2025 and who entered in the fall of 2021 will participate in the senior draw.
- All students who were originally members of class 2026 and who entered in the fall of 2022 will be classified as seniors.
- All students who were originally members of class 2027 and who entered in the fall of 2023 will be classified as juniors.
- All students who were originally members of class 2028 and who have completed at least one term at Yale, will proceed through the draw as sophomores unless otherwise designated.
- Students contracting housing are doing so with the expectation that they will reside on campus for a full academic year. Students relinquishing housing after contracting it must do so in accordance with Yale Undergraduate Regulations, and should expect to pay the room relinquishment fee.
- Deciding to live off campus this academic year does not prohibit you from seeking future on-campus housing.
Note that students will only be eligible to house with students in their same draw classification. Mixed year housing is not allowed, with the exception of students who, due to taking one or more semesters off, have had a change in their class year per the class definitions outlined above. These students may request a reclassification to participate in housing with their matriculation year, so that they can group with classmates of their original matriculation class.