Create Your Own Otter Dens: Interest-Based Living Experience
Otter Dens provide students with an opportunity to live in a cluster of pre-selected rooms with a group of peers who share a common interest, hobby, or passion. Students who are part of approved dens will be booked into their room by Campus Living ahead of room selection!
Applications for 2026-27 Otter Dens will open on March 2nd. Otter Den applications will be considered by completion date. Every member of an Otter Den has to apply for 2026-2027 housing in order to be considered.
Otter Den Notes
There are no dens composed of all singles. Otter Dens may contain a mix of singles, doubles, and quads.
If someone in your den has an approved housing accommodation, please have them connect with Campus Living to review the list of den locations.
The average den size is 5-12 people, but Campus Living can accommodate larger groups.
Applying for an Otter Den does not guarantee your group exclusive use of kitchens, lounges, or bathrooms on or near your Otter Den cluster.
Each members of the Otter Den will be booked into their room ahead of room selection
Otter Den building and room options have been pre-selected to accommodate different den sizes. Please review the list below to see the location and room type options in each den. You will be able to preference 3 den location options when you submit your application.
Copeland
A10s wing - 6 beds - one single, one double, one triple
B wing floor - 8 to 11 beds - a mix of bed types
Hartzfeld
Any floor in Hartzfeld
Holmes
4th floor: 426-430
4th floor: 401-403
Howard
300,301,302,313,314
Odell
213, 211, 209
227, 225, 223
Platt East
104, 105, 106, 155A
Ponderosa
5-12 beds on the first floor of Ponderosa
Copeland B10s
Copeland
Copeland
Odell
Odell
Odell
Ponderosa
Ponderosa
Platt east
Howard
Holmes
Holmes
Hartzfeld
Hartzfeld
Otter Dens for 2026-2027
Otter Den FAQs
Groups of returning residents with a shared interest who have completed the housing application and submitted the deposit for 2026-2027.
Not only will you get to live in proximity with friends and peers who have a shared interest, your Otter Den group will be booked, by Campus Living, into your rooms before room selection!
No, there is no additional cost associated with Otter Dens.
Otter Dens are intended for groups of 6 to 12 people. Have more than 12 in your group? Send Campus Living an email (living@lclark.edu) so we can connect.
We plan to review applications as they come in! We hope to get back to students within two weeks of their application submission.
Otter Dens do not guarantee your group exclusive use of kitchens/lounges/bathrooms or other hall amenities. You will need to share these resources with others who live on your floor or in your building/community.
We would love that! Campus Living would be happy to connect Otter Den members with their RA and REM for community events.
Suite Style Doubles/Triples
A suite style double or suite style triple is a designed quad room with only two or three residents sharing a private bedroom and a separate study/living room. Suite style rooms are offered in Copeland and Forest Halls.
We were able to offer suite style doubles for 2025-2026 and anticipate being able to offer them for 2026-2027. The number of suite style doubles/triples we are able to offer is dependent on the amount of continuing student housing demand and incoming class size.
We will open a suite style interest form after room selection. Roommate groups who are interested in a suite style double/triple should all fill out our suite style interest form.
We expect to be able to start offering Suite Style rooms in late May/early June.
Suite Style FAQs
The cost of a suite style double is an additional $450 per semester per resident (2 students in a quad). The cost of a suite style triple is $300 per semester per resident (3 students in a quad).
Additional beds and chairs will be removed. Moveable desks and armoires will also be removed. Built-in desks and armoires can not be removed. You will be allowed to use all remaining furniture in the room spaces.
Only all year residents are eligible for suite style rooms.
Double-Single Buyouts
A double-single buyout allows residents to pay the difference between a double room and a single room to remain as the only occupant of a double room space. For 2026-2027, we will host a double-single buyout waitlist for anyone interested in “buying out” the open bed in their double or to be shifted into a double room as a single occupant.
For 2026-2027, a double-single buyout is $676 per semester. Once you are confirmed for a double-single buyout, this charge will be placed on your student account.
Please note that confirmed double-single residents are responsible for any damages charges for the entire room space.
Any double style room on-campus. This includes Hartzfeld suites, Holmes suites, and all double rooms. Singles, triples, and quads are not eligible.
Fast Pass for Quads and Triples
Do you want to secure a triple or quad booking in Copeland or Forest for 2026-2027 with your friends ahead of room selection?The FastPass process supports returning residents who want to secure a triple or quad with their roommate group. This opt-in process will allow your roommate group to let our office know about your desire to live in a triple/quad before room selection and secure a triple/quad booking without the need to participate in room selection.
To move forward with a FastPass for 2026-2027, please complete the following steps between March 2nd and March 24th:
Include all members of your desired roommate group on the email
In the email, please include:
All roommate names
The room type (triple or quad) you are interested in
A list of at least 3 preferences for placement. If you would like to be re-booked into your current quad/triple, please include this information in the email.
After March 24th, we will move forward with booking roommate groups into triples and quads. We will place residents into triples and quads in the following order:
Roommate groups who want to be rebooked into the same triple/quad room they are residing in for 2025-2026
We will assign in chronological order the FastPass request received between March 2nd and March 24th. We will prioritize returning residents who want to live in an LLC.
We will continue to accept FastPass requests after March 24th, but your placement will happen after all other FastPass requests have been booked.
FastPass FAQ
In previous years, we have set aside more quads and triples for incoming students than returning students based on the belief that returning residents want to live in doubles or singles. After feedback from residents and RAs, we learned that more returning students than we anticipated may want to live in triples/quads with their friends, but don’t see as many triples or quads during room selection. We hope this process will support our returning residents into their desired housing while reducing stress during room selection and creating better housing experiences for all residents, new and returning.
Triples and quads in Copeland and quads in Forest are eligible for FastPass.
Living Learning Community spaces that residents aren’t apart of, Platt Quads, Holmes suites, and Hartzfeld suites are not eligible for FastPass.
The choice is up to you! As this is our first time piloting this process, we aren’t sure what demand will be like. We hope to still offer some quad/triple beds on the housing portal during room selection. Returning residents in a roommate group of four will be able to book into available quads or doubles that remain available during their room selection timeslot. However, a quad isn’t guaranteed to be available during room selection.
Unfortunately, FastPass is only available for Forest and Copeland triples and quads. Single semester residents will reside in Stewart-Odell. We do have one designed triple in Stewart that we are able to offer all year residents.
Sorry, FastPass is only available to complete roommate groups or 3 or 4 residents looking to fill an entire triple or a quad space.
No, anyone who is booked into a room via FastPass will not be eligible to view rooms during room selection. However, you will still be asked to login to the portal after room selection to confirm your meal plan.
Campus Living is located in Odell Annex on the Undergraduate Campus.
Copeland B10s
Copeland
Copeland
Odell
Odell
Odell
Ponderosa
Ponderosa
Platt east
Howard
Holmes
Holmes
Hartzfeld
Hartzfeld
