Selection process

If you’re applying to stay at the University, we need to make sure:

• You meet (or have met) University Entrance requirements.
• You’ve applied for full-time study at the University of Auckland.
  • You must be enrolled full-time at The University of Auckland to move into/live-in residence.

If you are not in one of the aforementioned priority groups, your application will still be considered for selection.

When there are more priority applicants than places available, offers will be made to those applicants on a randomised basis. We also reserve the right to offer more places than we have beds available in the expectation of some students withdrawing and cancelling their places in accommodation.

If we are not able to offer you accommodation in your preferred choice of residence, we may offer you a place in an alternative residence. You can choose to accept this guaranteed place (which we strongly advise) or remain on the waitlist for your preferred residence. You cannot accept an alternative offer and remain waitlisted.

First offers for the Halls of Residence are sent out in early October for the following year, or May for semester two applicants. Students who have been selected to receive a first offer will be notified via email, and will have until stipulated due date to accept the residential agreement online and pay the required deposit. Both must be completed in order for the accommodation offer to be confirmed. There will be no extensions given.

As we receive far more applications for accommodation than we have spaces, offers are made to applicant types based on a selection process.

If you were a school leaver resident who is reapplying for your second year into a self-catered residence, we will be taking into consideration:

• Your desire to achieve academic excellence as demonstrated by sitting all of your exams, and your desire to improve your academic standing by utilising tutorials and academic mentoring offered in the halls.
• Your financial history and behavioural record from your previous residence. Students with a history of debt or high level of incidents may not be considered for a place.

Based on previous years experience it is likely that there will be more applications than beds available. You may receive an alternative offer or placed on the waitlist to be considered for any availability that comes up right up to the start of the Academic Year. 

If you were an undergraduate or postgraduate resident who is reapplying, we take into consideration:

• Your financial history and behavioural record from your previous residence. Students with a history of debt or high level of incidents may not be considered for a place.

If you are a new student to the University of Auckland, your application will be assessed based on the answers you provide in the ‘About you’ section.

• If we are not able to offer you accommodation in your preferred choice of residence, we may offer you a place in an alternative residence. You can choose to accept this guaranteed place (which we strongly advise) or remain on the waitlist for your preferred residence.
• First offers for the self-catered residences are sent out during mid to late October. Applications made between the 1st August and 30 September are considered in the first-round offer pool. Semester two offers are sent out in mid-May. 
• Students who have been selected to receive a first offer will be notified via email, and will have until the specified due date to accept the residential agreement online, and pay the required deposit. These steps must be completed in order for the accommodation offer to be confirmed. There will be no extensions given for first offers.

• Every year we receive twice as many hall applications as there are beds available, so it’s not possible to offer everyone accommodation.
• After first offers are made in October or May, applicants who do not receive an offer of a place will be waitlisted for ongoing offers.  
• As students decline their offers or withdraw between October and the beginning of Semester One, or May and the beginning or Semester Two - offers are then made to applicants on the waitlist to fill the vacancies.
• If you are made an offer for a residence that you had not originally applied for, to ensure your place in accommodation, we strongly recommended that you accept that offer. While you may decline the offer and stay on the waitlist for your preferred residence it is unlikely that an offer will be made, as applicants who have had not received an offer will be offered first.
• To ensure the waitlists operate as efficiently as possible, applicants will be emailed occasionally to confirm whether they would like to remain on the waitlist. If we do not hear from you within an appropriate timeframe your application will become inactive and will be withdrawn. Please let us know if you are no longer coming to the University of Auckland to study so that we can make offers to students still waitlisted.