2025-2026 Housing Reassignment FAQs

Please complete the housing survey and indicate that you wish to remain in your current housing.

WCM uses a points system to allocate housing. For students living on-campus, rising second-year students are assigned two points; rising third-year students are assigned three points; and rising fourth-year students are assigned four points. A student is assigned a maximum of four points. Students living off-campus are assigned one point. Housing is allocated to those with the highest points first. In the event points are tied, a lottery system is used. Please note that students living in MSK housing are considered to be living on campus.

In 2025 there will be three housing reassignment processes.

March—Stahl reassignment

April—All other housing reassignment, except the New Student Residence.

Early summer 2025—New Student Residence

Please click here to view the 2025 - 2026 Student Housing Reassignment Process Information Session held on February 12, 2025.

• Since the info session, it has been determined that Memorial Sloan Kettering housing is considered on-campus, and residents will be allotted the same amount of points as residents residing in WCM housing.
• Students who applied to Stahl but did not receive a placement for 2025 will be sent a waitlist application and will not need to email student-housing@med.cornell.edu in order to be considered for future vacancies.

All Leave of Absences (LOA) must be approved by WCM.  LOAs are considered an off-campus move.  This includes those attending programs at other institutions.  However, if you are attending a Cornell University program, you will be considered to be remaining on campus, even if the Cornell University program is outside of NYC.

If you applied to live in Stahl and did not receive a placement for 2025, you will receive a waitlist application via email on Monday, March 31. The waitlist application will close at 5:00 PM on Friday, April 4. The waitlist will not be processed on a first-come, first-served basis this year. After the waitlist closes, all applicant names will be randomized and chosen via lottery.

Please check the rates of each individual property:

• Olin Hall
• Lasdon House
• Stahl
• 77th Street
• Memorial Sloan Kettering - 430 Main St.
• New Student Residence

All single students are guaranteed housing. WCM provides housing to families, staff, and faculty as inventory allows. 

Junior one-bedroom apartments are no longer available at Stahl.

2025-2026 rents go into effect for all student residents on July 1, 2025.

Due to WCM’s limited housing inventory, short-term housing is not available.

Congratulations!  If you are graduating from the MD program, you must vacate WCM housing by May 31. If you are graduating from the Graduate school, you must vacate WCM housing sixty days from the day you defend your dissertation.

Family housing is located at East 77th Street, Lasdon House, and the New Student Residence. Please note that WCM does not guarantee family housing.

• Families of two are housed in studios.
• Families of three or more are housed in one-bedroom apartments.

WCM houses summer programs in Olin Hall.  As a result, Olin Hall must be vacated in the early summer.  If you live in Olin Hall, you will need to go through two reassignment processes, one in April in order to vacate Olin Hall by early summer 2025 and a second reassignment process in early summer to move into the New Student Residence in August 2025.  If you do not live in Olin Hall, you can stay in your current residence and apply for the New Student Residence in early Summer 2025.

Yes, family housing will be offered in the New Student Residence. Please note that WCM does not guarantee family housing. Families of two are housed in studios, and families of three or more are housed in one-bedroom apartments.

Please view the rates on the New Student Residence page.

August 2025.