How does USC’s application page distinguish housing-preference counts and a requested community’s corresponding building?

Record date 2026-10-18 — Content editorial review date, not a new publisher retrieval.

This page includes 2026–2027 terms and a Spring 2027 term, but its timeline also labels a spring application as Spring 2026 and gives a different spring move-in day from the term list. Those date inconsistencies are unresolved. This guide does not adopt an application-opening date, deadline, move-in date or currently open window. This guide covers the stated preference counts and undergraduate community request steps, not a complete application or an eligibility decision. The linked building descriptions, supplemental forms and actual inventory were not opened. No building availability, community acceptance, individual ranking, assignment or later change approval was verified.

The page asks for five housing preferences, or four for graduate housing, in interest order. It says a requested undergraduate Living Learning Community’s building should be first and notes that some communities require a supplemental application.

In List Housing Preferences, USC’s application page asks applicants to list five housing preferences in order of interest, with four preferences for graduate housing. It says preferences can be updated until assignments are made. In the undergraduate Living Learning Community section, applicants requesting a community are told to place its corresponding building first; if needed, they can return to List Housing Preferences to change that ranking. A separate undergraduate section says some communities, including gender-inclusive housing, require a supplemental application. Listing a building or indicating a community is therefore a request step, not confirmation of a place or completion of every additional requirement.