Nearly 94 Percent of Student Applicants Receive Winter Break Housing

Of the 1,439 students who applied, 93.7 percent—1,349 students—were granted requests for housing on campus during winter break, according to Faculty of Arts and Sciences spokesperson Colin Manning.

Of those 1,349 students with approved winter break campus housing, 353 were approved to stay on campus during Winter Break I—which runs from Dec. 22 to Jan. 1—and 1,322 students for Winter Break II, which runs from Jan. 2 to Jan. 16. Those 1,322 students include some approved for both parts of the break, Manning wrote in an email.

Last year, nearly 96 percent of applications for winter break housing were approved, and 94 percent in 2011.

The approved applications fall under several categories, including students writing senior theses and volunteers with the Phillips Brooks House Association. Other permitted students include those seeking campus employment of 20 or more hours a week, pursuing—as Faculty of Arts and Sciences spokesperson Jeff Neal called them last year—“purposeful non-credit educational opportunities,” working Boston-based internships, and studying for graduate school exams.

Housing for all undergraduates opens for Wintersession programming on Jan. 17, 10 days before the start of spring semester classes.

—Staff writer Madeline R. Conway can be reached at mconway@thecrimson.com. Follow her on Twitter @MadelineRConway.