# Housing Requests

**Source**: https://collegehousing.fas.harvard.edu/housing-requests/
**Parent**: https://collegehousing.fas.harvard.edu/

## Submit requests to cancel, transfer, return to housing, and more in the Residential Portal.

## On This Page:

[Cancel or Return to Housing](#cancel-or-return)\
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[Transfer Houses](#the-IHT-application)\
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[Rising Sophomore Lottery](#rising-sophomore-lottery)\
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[First-Year Housing Application](#fy-housing-app)\
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[Undergraduate Veteran or Family Housing](#vet-family-housing)

[BACK TO OUR HOMEPAGE](https://collegehousing.fas.harvard.edu/)

[**Cancel or Return to Housing**](https://collegehousing.fas.harvard.edu/cancel-return-housing/)

**Students can submit this request year-round.\**\
If a student wishes to study abroad, take a leave of absence, or move off-campus, students should complete a Housing Cancellation form. \
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When students are ready to return, they should submit a Returning Student Application.

[**Transfer Houses**](https://collegehousing.fas.harvard.edu/transfer-houses/)

**Applications open for fall and spring early each term.\**\
After living in their assigned House for two terms, students can apply to transfer to another house via an Inter-House Transfer application.

[**The Rising Sophomore Housing Lottery**](https://collegehousing.fas.harvard.edu/rising-sophomore-lottery/)

**Rising Sophomores must register each spring.**

After students complete their first term at Harvard College, they take part in the Rising Sophomore Lottery.

[**First-Year Housing Questionnaire**](https://collegehousing.fas.harvard.edu/first-year-housing/)

**Applications open the first week of May.**\
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First-year students are required to live on campus. They fill out a First-Year Housing Questionnaire the summer before moving in.

[**Undergraduate Veteran or Family Housing**](https://collegehousing.fas.harvard.edu/veteran-family-housing/)

**Eligible undergraduates can make this request year-round.**\
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Undergraduates of Harvard College who are veterans (of any country), married, or have custody of children can request apartment-style housing.

No incoming first-year undergraduate students can request this housing type.