<p>Your first housing choice is assigned to you. In the future, you must enter a lottery. </p>
<p>Basically, you fill out the application along with anyone who wants to room with you. There are various combinations of rooms, so you can opt for a single, double, triple, quad, etc. Here are the housing options and rates: [Stevens</a> Housing Options | Stevens Institute of Technology](<a href=“http://www.stevens.edu/sit/housing/housing-options]Stevens”>http://www.stevens.edu/sit/housing/housing-options)</p>
<p>One thing they have done in the past, that I didn’t care for, was that they let you continue in your room that you have, once you have it. So if you got a good lottery number initially, and chose a nicer room assignment, not only could you keep it going forward, but you can actually ‘pull in’ roommates of your choice. So even if all of your roommates are leaving, you can retain your housing. I just don’t think it is a fair way of administering what should be an all-lottery system. It takes a lot of the preferred units out of the pool of available choices.</p>
<p>As you will see from the above link, there is a combination of dorm type housing and apartment type housing. All dorms are on campus. Upperclassmen sometimes prefer the dorm because you can get a single on campus, which is very convenient. The downside is that you are forced to take a pricey meal plan if you live in a dorm.</p>
<p>Some apartments are on campus but most are off campus in Stevens leased housing. That means that Stevens students are in the same building as normal tenants (although they are usually configured so that the students rooms are in one area). Read through various apartment ratings sites and you will get a picture of how this works.</p>
<p>These units are scattered throughout Hoboken, but there is a shuttle bus that operates on a reliable schedule <a href=“http://www.stevens.edu/sit/sites/default/files/stevens-shuttle.pdf[/url]”>http://www.stevens.edu/sit/sites/default/files/stevens-shuttle.pdf</a></p>
<p>Here is a good visual to show you the shuttle route. [Stevens</a> Institute of Technology](<a href=“http://stevens.transloc.com/]Stevens”>http://stevens.transloc.com/)
Stevens leased housing is scattered throughout this route, so you see you may have to walk a few blocks if you opt to live off campus in Stevens housing.</p>