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Application Steps & Tips
Step 1: Verify your eligibility. Enter your information in the online application and you will receive a confirmation email. Note: If you wish to apply to live at Academe at 198, please visit their website and apply through UC Law SF.
Step 2: Receive an “application completed” email once your application has been reviewed and approved. Wait for Housing Services to contact you with an offer for placement. If we do not contact you within 30 days of your need date, it means we do not have a suitable space for you. You should continue to seek off-campus housing. To check an application status, login to the Housing Portal and select Apply Here. Your application status is listed on the Application Term page.
Step 3: If we contact you to offer a space, you will have three (3) business days to read and sign the Housing Agreement and make your initial monthly payment. This is a legally binding agreement, so be sure to carefully read and sign it.
Tips
1) Fill out the application as much as possible, even if it’s not a required field.
2) It is required to upload your eligibility documentation.
3) Please submit only one application, regardless of where you want to live or what type of accommodation you want. If you applied with us in the past and cannot access your application, please email us to have your application reactivated. Duplicate applications may result in a longer response time.
4) Our confirmation emails may take up to 3 days (or longer during the Spring months).
5) Due to limited availability, applicants who receive an offer should be prepared to accept or decline within three days. To accept an offer, applicants must make the initial payment by credit card or electronic funds transfer (EFT). Applicants who do not have immediate access to funds may consider arranging a third party (such as a family member or friend) to make the payment on their behalf to secure the unit.
Timeline & Priority
Timeline:
UCSF Housing makes housing offers approximately 30 to 90 days in advance of the move-in date. Offers are made year-round and may be made less than 30 days in advance when immediate vacancies occur.
Assignments and Selection Process
For non-faculty units, assignments are offered in the following order:
- UCSF Students, Residents, and Clinical Fellows
- Postdocs
- Faculty
- Staff and other eligible affiliates
For non-faculty units, assignments are offered in the following order:
- UCSF Students, Residents, and Clinical Fellows
- Postdocs
- Faculty
- Staff and other eligible affiliates
Within each affiliation group:
- Families with children receive preference for 2- and 3-bedroom units.
- New UCSF affiliates receive preference over continuing affiliates through May 31 following their program start date.
Applicants may select up to three move-in months and three unit types. When demand exceeds availability, applicants within the same affiliation group who select the same unit type and move-in month are entered into a randomized selection pool.
Housing offers are based on your application preferences, so please select only unit types you are prepared to accept. If you decline an offer, you may keep your application active and update your preferences in the Housing Portal.
Short-Term Housing Unavailable:
We are unable to offer short-term housing (less than 12 months). Please see the Short-Term Lodging Guide for off-campus short-term options.
Occupancy Term Limits
All Residents are welcome to live in UCSF Housing for up to 5 years. Students currently enrolled in the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP, joint MD/PhD program) may live in UCSF Housing for up to 9 years. Term limits are cumulative in a lifetime, regardless of university affiliation or break in tenancy. After being a primary Resident in any combination of UCSF-owned properties up to the term limit, the Resident will be required to move and find alternative housing accommodations. Time living in UCSF Housing on someone else’s lease is not counted toward this occupancy term limit.
The program at Academe at 198 has no occupancy term limits. Former Residents of UCSF campus properties may apply to live at Academe at 198 without term limit restrictions. Any years spent at Academe at 198 do not count against term limits at other UCSF-owned properties.
Getting Campus Housing
Watch our new applicant info session event recording to learn tips for securing campus housing, details about our properties, how the assignments process works, and more.
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