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Assignment Results

If you have applied in the pre-assignment round for students with disabilities, you will receive an email with your assignment.

If you have applied for housing, you can find your housing assignment on Axess on the day the results are announced. If you are assigned during the Rolling Assignments, you will also receive the assignment results by email.

It is your responsibility to check Axess to find out your housing assignment. The announcement dates can be found on the R&DE Calendar . If you have problems viewing your assignment, contact Housing Assignments by submitting a ServiceNow ticket.

2023-24: Spring Quarter

2023-24: summer quarter, 2024-25: autumn quarter, 2024-25: winter quarter, 2024-25: spring quarter, if you were not assigned.

To be considered for additional vacancies, join the next round of assignments on Axess.

If You Were Assigned

If you are happy with your assignment, you do not need to do anything to keep your housing. You signed your Residence Agreement when you applied for housing. You may view a copy of the agreement at the  Residence Agreement  page.

If you did not receive an assignment to a residence high on your list of preferences, there are some limited opportunities for reassignment during the academic year. There are no reassignments for summer quarter.

Specific Apartment Assignment

You are not immediately assigned to a specific room or apartment. Specific apartment assignments are made shortly before classes begin, after students have been assigned to a specific type of housing.

Special consideration for assignment to renovated or larger apartments is not offered. If you have a disability or documented medical condition that should be considered when making your room/apartment assignment, contact the  Office of Accessible Education  at (650) 723-1066 to make your needs known. Please do not send medical information to Housing Assignments or to your Housing Service Center.

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Pre-Assignment

Students apply for university theme houses through the Pre-Assignment process. Some of Stanford's on-campus residences offer special academic, cultural, social, or leadership programs, while other residences are co-ops. Co-ops offer a space where  the cooking and cleaning for residents is performed by the students who live in the house.

Application Timeline

• Monday, April 1:  Pre-Assignment applications for University Theme Houses open (1:00 p.m. PST)
• Wednesday, April 10:  Pre-Assignment applications close (1:00 p.m. PST)
• Wednesday, May 15:  University Theme House pre-assignment placements announced

More About Pre-Assignment

One of the core tenets of the housing assignments process is to support these unique residential programs through the University Theme House Pre-Assignment process.

Students who want to live in a residence with a University Theme House can come together with other students to create a community committed to exploring a topic, lifestyle, or culture.

To learn more about Pre-Assignment, please explore the following links. 

Application Process

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Frequently Asked Questions

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Working papers

“ Payments, Credit and Asset Prices ” (with Martin Schneider ), April 2017

“ Banks’ Risk Exposures ” (with Juliane Begenau and Martin Schneider ), under revision for Econometrica

“ Segmented Housing Search ” (with Martin Schneider and Johannes Stroebel ), April 2017, under revision for the American Economic Review .

“ Trend and Cycle in Bond Premia ” (with Juliana Salomao and Martin Schneider ), March 2015

“ Decomposing the Yield Curve ” (with John Cochrane), March 2008

“ Inflation and the Price of Real Assets ” (with Martin Schneider), March 2012

“Monetary Policy Tick-by-Tick” (with Michael Fleming)

“ No Arbitrage Taylor Rules ” (with Andrew Ang)

Published papers

“ Housing and Macroeconomics ” (with Martin Schneider ), our chapter for the new Handbook of Macroeconomics edited by John Taylor and Harald Uhlig, July 2016

  “ The Housing Market(s) of San Diego ” (with Tim Landvoigt and Martin Schneider ), American Economic Review, April 2015, 105(4), 1371-1407. The pdf posted here is the NBER working paper version which is much easier to read, because we can refer to the colors in the Figures.

“ Housing assignment with restrictions: theory and evidence from Stanford campus .” (with Martin Schneider and Tim Landvoigt), AEA P&P, Volume 104(5), pp. 67-72.

  “ Remapping the Flow of Funds ” (with Juliane Begenau and Martin Schneider), in “ Risk Topography: Systemic Risk and Macro Modeling ” 2014, Markus K. Brunnermeier and Arvind Krishnamurthy editors, pp. 57-64, University of Chicago Press.

  “ Interest Rate Risk in Credit Markets ” (with Martin Schneider), American Economic Review P&P, Volume 100, Issue 2, 2010, pp. 579-584.

“ Momentum traders in the housing market: survey evidence and a search mode l ” (with Martin Schneider), American Economic Review P&P, Volume 99, Issue 2, 2009, pp. 406-411.

“ Futures Prices as Risk-Adjusted Forecasts of Monetary Policy ” (with Eric Swanson), Journal of Monetary Economics 2008, 55, May issue, pp. 677-691. New York Times 7/11/04 .

“ Inflation Illusion, Credit, and Asset Pricing ” (with Martin Schneider), 2008, in Asset Pricing and Monetary Policy, John Y. Campbell (ed.), Chicago IL, Chicago University Press, pp. 147-181. Article in the Region: Masters of Illusion .

“ Asset Prices and Asset Quantities ” (with Martin Schneider) Journal of the European Economic Association 2007, 5, p. 380-389.

“ Equilibrium Yield Curves ” (with Martin Schneider), zip file with MATLAB programs , in Daron Acemoglu, Kenneth Rogoff, and Michael Woodford, NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2006, published in 2007, Cambridge MA: MIT Press p. 389-442.

“ Housing, Consumption, and Asset Pricing ” (with Martin Schneider and Selale Tuzel), Journal of Financial Economics 83, March 2007 (Lead Article), pp. 531-569, Economist 4/20/06 .

“ Modeling Bond Yields in Finance and Macroeconomics ” (with Francis X. Diebold and Glenn Rudebusch), American Economic Review P&P, Volume 95, Issue 2, 2005, pp. 415-520, Appendix .

“ What does the yield curve tell us about GDP growth? ” (with Andrew Ang and Min Wei), Journal of Econometrics 2006, 131, pp. 359-403. Economist 6/2/05. Businessweek 01/09/06. Out of sample forecasts, Dec 2005.

“ Bond risk premia ” (with John Cochrane), Appendix and zip file with MATLAB programs , American Economic Review 2005, Volume 94, Issue 1, pp. 138-160. The NBER working paper draft shows that our factor predicts GDP growth 2-3 years from now (Figure 4) and is positively related to the unemployment rate (Figure 3).

“ Bond Yields and the Federal Reserve ”, Journal of Political Economy, Volume 113, Issue 2, April 2005, pp. 311-344.   Additional results in the earlier 2001 working paper version: “ An Econometric Model of the Yield Curve with Macroeconomic Jump Effects ”, NBER Working paper no 8246: theoretical results for deterministic jump times and state-dependent jump size distributions, linear-quadratic jump-diffusion model; empirical results with macro news releases that change the conditional distribution of a future Fed move.

“ Corporate earnings and the equity premium ” (with Francis Longstaff), 2004, Journal of Financial Economics Volume 74 (Lead Article), Issue 3, pp. 401-421.

“ A No-Arbitrage Vector Regression of Term Structure Dynamics with Macroeconomic and Latent Variables ” (with Andrew Ang), Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 50, Issue 4, May 2003, pp. 745-787.

The Fed and Interest Rates: A High-Frequency Identification ” (with John Cochrane), American Economic Review P&P, May 2002, Volume 92, Issue 2, pp. 90-95. zip-file with MATLAB programs .

Comment on Giannaioli, Ma and Shleifer “Expectations and Investment” , NBER Macro Annual 2015.

“Should the Monetary Policy Rule Be Different in a Financial Crisis?” , Forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.

Program Report for the NBER Asset Pricing Program , NBER Reporter 2010, Number 2, July 2010.

Estimating Rational Expectations Models ”, prepared for the New Palgrave, May 2007.

“ Affine Term Structure Models ” in the Handbook of Financial Econometrics, Elsevier, zip-file with MATLAB programs .

“ The Role of Policy Rules in Inflation Targeting, Commentary ”, Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis, 2004, Volume 86, Issue 4, pp. 113-15.

The 6-D Bias and the Equity Premium Puzzle: Comment ” in B.S. Bernanke and K. Rogoff, NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2011, Volume 16, Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2020, pp. 317-329.

“ Note on exponential-affine stock prices ” answers questions raised at the NBER asset pricing meeting 2002 in Chicago about the functional form result in Mamaysky (2001).

CEPR Focus Session Overview Slides

Comment slides

Discussion of “The Mortgage Credit Channel of Monetary Policy” by Dan Greenwald, MFM Conference 2017.

Discussion of Glaeser and Nathanson “An Extrapolative Model of House Price Dynamics” , NBER Summer Institute 2015.

Discussion of Haddad and Sraer “The Banking View of Bond Risk Premia”, NBER Summer Institute 2015.

Discussion of Justiniano, Primiceri and Tambalotti “Credit Supply and the Housing Boom” ECB & Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta December 2014

Discussion of Campbell, Pflueger and Viceira “Monetary Policy Drivers of Bond and Equity Risks” , NBER AP Meeting, Summer Institute 2014

Discussion of Malmendier and Nagel, “Learning from Inflation Experiences” , Spring EFG Meeting 2012

Discussion of Krishnamurthy and Vissing-Jorgensen, Hamilton and Wu, d’Amico and King at the San Francisco Fed Conference, February 2011

Discussion of Brunnermeier and Yannikov June 2010, “A Macroeconomic Model with a Financial Sector”, Monetary Economics Conference, Bank of Portugal.

Discussion of Jermann and Quadrini , April 2010, Macroeconomic Effects of Financial Shocks, Conference at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

EFG 2010 Spring Meeting Discussion Slides of Favilukis, Ludvigson and van Nieuwerburgh “The Macroeconomic Effects of Housing Wealth, Housing Finance, and Limited Risk-Sharing in General Equilibrium”

AFA 2010 Atlanta Discussion Slides of Lustig, Koijen, and van Nieuwerburgh “The Cross Section and Times Series of Stock and Bond Returns”, graphs taken from the NBER working paper version of Cochrane and Piazzesi 2005 .

EFG 2009 Spring Meeting Discussion Slides of Glenn Rudebusch and Eric Swanson “The Bon Premium in a DSGE Model with Long Run Real and Nominal Risks”

EFG 2009 Meeting at the Summer Institute Discussion Slides of James Kahn “What Drives House Prices?” Fall Schedule 2010

Stanford Reading group on Financial Markets

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ResEd reopens application period for ‘anti-war’ co-op Columbae

Residential Education (ResEd) reopened pre-assign applications for Columbae on Thursday, reversing the University’s’ announcement on Tuesday that the social justice themed co-op would lose its theme next year, following a lack of interest in pre-assignment. 

A petition to save Columbae was circulated broadly, with a focus on outreach to current students and alumni. According to Jason Hu ’26, an incoming residential assistant (RA) at Columbae, the petition received around 1,800 signatures. 

Stanford will accept pre-assignment applications to Columbae until midnight on Sunday.

Hu said ResEd would contact people who signed a form circulated to current students. Respondents expressed interest in living in Columbae next fall. 

Vardaan Shah, an incoming RA at another co-op, Terra, wrote that other co-op residents and supporters will table at White Plaza  to protest the University’s lack of support to Columbae and other co-ops. “We’re hoping the university will see that interest is clearly present for Columbae and reinstate its co-op status and theme,” Shah wrote. 

But the group’s goals extend beyond Columbae. They hope the University will recognize that changes in housing policies and the pre-assignment process paint an incomplete picture of student interest in co-ops, Shah wrote.

“We’ve received no mass communication from admin acknowledging there is some kind of resistance to their choice,” Shah wrote. He criticized that the burden to save Columbae — and administrative effort to establish interest in the co-op — fell on students. “We’re still the ones handling all the administrative details of this. No communication is still the norm.”

According to Shah and some supporters who gathered at an emergency meeting to support Columbae, the University’s approach to housing is divorced from student’s desire for community. While ResEd hoped to emulate the residential college model at peer universities on the East Coast, this was incompatible with the Stanford campus, Shah wrote.

“What they miss is that Stanford is not situated in the same way as those places,” Shah wrote.

For instance, several East Coast universities are located near cities like Boston or New York, Shah wrote.  “Those places have cities near them, where students can find community and places to enjoy themselves, and [they] can go back to the campus to sleep and engage in intellectual life.”

As an expensive suburb, Palo Alto is not accessible to students, and co-ops like Columbae provide an important space to seek smaller, unconventional communities — as a result, Shah and others hope that the University will acknowledge the importance of co-ops. 

The Daily has reached out to the University for comment.

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Graduate Brenda Valdes found her inner leader at UTSA

MAY 21, 2024 — It’s a common bit of advice: Get outside of your comfort zone.

Brenda Valdes ’24 , who crossed the Commencement stage to receive her Bachelor of Art in Psychology on Friday, took this advice to heart as a Roadrunner. In doing so, she found her calling as a researcher and her potential as a leader.

The Honors College graduate also found a pathway to continue her graduate studies as a McNair Scholar. Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the McNair Scholars Program is a nationally recognized initiative that offers undergraduates a pathway to a doctoral degree. This fall, Valdes will begin her doctoral studies at Stanford University.

“At first, I thought it was just an extra thing to put in my (graduate school) application. In reality, McNair became a community and a support network,” Valdes recalled.

“I met other students at UTSA and through conversations we realized all of us were nontraditional students: older, parents, transfers, living off campus.”

At an early age, Valdes found herself in a unique housing set up: living on the grounds of a school, without the comforts of a traditional home.

“When I was four years old, my dad (a school custodian) got a new job in a nearby town. At the time, he was in his 20s, didn’t have a car and it was hard for him to commute to work. His supervisor allowed him to live on-site. We were going to live inside an elementary school,” Valdes recalled. “I realized that the place my parents called home did not have running water, bedrooms, a kitchen, or anything that a regular house usually has. The shelter that we lived in was two abandoned classrooms that were located toward the back of the institution. This is when as a young five-year-old, I became aware of the situation. We were experiencing hidden homelessness.”

That experience instilled in Valdes a desire to create places where she could feel at home, regardless of the situation. At UTSA, she did that as one of the founders of the Non-Traditional Students Organization (NTSO).

“I am a nontraditional student. I started school when I was 32. I met other students at UTSA and through conversations we realized all of us were nontraditional students: older, parents, transfers, living off campus,” Valdes said. “We decided to create an organization for nontraditional students . As of today, we are almost 100 students.”

UTSA Today  spoke with Valdes to learn more about her, what lies ahead and how her life has come full circle.

The following story has been edited for length and clarity.

Tell us about the person who was most influential in your educational journey.

BV : As a mother of three, the most influential are my children, who encourage me to keep going. However, throughout my life, the person who was the most influential in my education is my father, a school janitor. He saw himself as of lower importance in the school system, but he always valued education so much. He taught me that school was first and that if I was going to do something, I had to put all of my heart into it.

How did your activities at UTSA impact your decision to pursue a doctoral degree?

BV : I started with the UTSA-IES Pathways Program , a one-year training program funded by the U.S. Department of Education that prepares undergraduates from historically underserved populations for their doctoral studies in educational research under the leadership of Dr. Guadalupe Carmona . I went to the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Conference in Chicago in 2023. I saw the work done in educational research, and I promised myself, “One day I will present here.”

After the AERA conference, I traveled to California, to the amazing Stanford University. What a beautiful campus, I thought. This is when I decided that I wanted to continue after my BA and that I wanted to pursue a doctoral degree.

At the same time, my advisor Fernando Riosmena and I were working on a research project in New Jersey classrooms. We were looking at the effects of working in teams while doing a math assignment. Last year we decided to submit our findings to the 2024 AERA. Months later we were informed that our paper was accepted to the conference. I presented with the full team in April, a year after I promised myself that one day I would present.

I think the opportunities I had at UTSA allowed me to see the leader, the professional and the researcher that was always inside me. Education helped me find what my element was. I found my calling and passion and I will always be thankful for that. Birds all the way up!

What advice do you have for your fellow Roadrunners?

BV : Don’t limit yourself. Get outside of your comfort zone, because that’s how you will grow. Dare yourself to reach your highest potential.

As a Mexican Immigrant whose English is not her first language, I overcame my insecurities by presenting a lot in front of many people. I also thought many times that I wouldn’t be able to work on a research project because that meant that I was going to be out of town for days and I wouldn’t be able to find someone to take care of my children. If I kept limiting myself to this narrative, I wouldn’t have had all these opportunities that enriched my college experience so much. I became a competitive Ph.D. applicant, and I am preparing myself right now to move to Palo Alto, California, after being accepted into one of the most prestigious schools in the world.

Tell us more about this next stage in your academic journey.

BV : I decided to continue my education at the Stanford Graduate School of Education in the Developmental and Psychological Sciences program, fully funded with living expenses included. We will live on campus, in a community for student parents. They even have an elementary in this same community. My kids, just like me, will experience what it is like to live inside an institution. However, their circumstances will be very different than mine.

— Tricia Lynn Silva

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