After over 50 student requests for detailed room dimensions in the past year, Princeton’s Housing and Real Estate Services (HRES) has unveiled significant updates to its housing website. The redesigned website now features updated floor plans with clear annotations of each room’s individual square footage, instead of the previous square footage of each dorm overall.
The website itself has also been updated; now, floor plans have their own dedicated page instead of being hosted within the MyHousing page.
The floor plans were modified between mid-October and mid-February, covering all residential college dorms and upperclass housing, starting with Mathey College and finishing with the upperclass dorm 1901-Laughlin Hall. These new floor plans identify the function of each room, such as “Bedroom,” in addition to the square footage within each room.
Additionally, the floor plans are directly linked to the Housing and Real Estate Services (HRES) website, a change designed to assist current and incoming students ahead of the July 1, 2025, launch of a new housing software platform.
In an email to The Daily Princetonian, University spokesperson Jennifer Morrill wrote that the Housing Office is “hopeful that the revised floor plans will have a positive impact ... for incoming students as they consider what they will bring with them to campus.”
In interviews with the ‘Prince,’ student feedback was overwhelmingly positive, with many expecting these changes to significantly improve their room draw experiences.
However, this doesn’t mean that students don’t have any more suggestions.
Philip Mwendwa ’27, an international student, expressed gratitude for the increased information, but added that he wished they could have “included the information in meters for … the international folk.”
Celestine Kim ’27 and Sonny Lowe ’27 noted they would appreciate having the lists of available rooms updated after every draw group. Currently, the lists of available rooms are updated periodically throughout the day.
Another idea came from Luis Oropeza ’28, who suggested displaying “pictures of the room.” Dowon Seo ’27, on the other hand, wishes there were “different floors on the same PDF.”
This year, residential college draws begin on Tuesday, April 2. The last residential college draw will be Yeh College on April 10.
Upperclass room draws will begin after the residential college draws on Wednesday, April 10. As class sizes expand, the number of rooms remaining after the draw has decreased: in Spring 2023, there were 82 upperclass rooms left, while last year, there were only 17.
Although a limited number of juniors and seniors will draw into their residential colleges, the current number of upperclassmen is 2,998 (1,498 in the Class of 2025 and 1,500 in the Class of 2026). Next year, the total will be 2,866 students, with 1,366 in the Class of 2027, so it is likely that there will be more upperclass rooms available by the end of the draw.
Caleb Bello is a head Newsletter editor and contributing News writer for the ‘Prince.’ He is from Portland, Oregon.
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