Housing and Dining Exemptions
The following exemptions allow students to qualify for Off-Campus status even without six semesters of residence. Students must fill out the Exemption Form.
Exemption Deadlines and Application Process
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Types of Exemptions
- Automatic Exemption for Age
- Students who are 23 years or older by January 2 of the next year.
- Documentation:
- Copy of Birth Certificate
- No documentation is required if birth date can be verified in Odyssey HMS.
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Please Note This is a NEW Policy Starting 2012-13!!!
Excerpt from Housing and Dining Contract--
"Students who are 23 or older by January 2 of academic year 2012-2013 are not automatically eligible for on-campus housing. If students who are age 23 or older by January 2 of academic year 2012-2013 wish to dine or live on campus they should contact the Office of Residential Education Services to see what options may be available."
- Commuter
- Students who live with their parents and commute from their parents' home within a fifty (50) mile radius of Oberlin and have a minimum of six (6) months established residency.
- Documentation:
- Mapquest of mileage from Oberlin College to permanent address and
- Postmarked letter from parent stating students will be living and dining at home for the academic year and
- Utility bills from permanent address for six months prior to date of request.
- Marriage
- Students married as husband and wife by legal commitments.
- Documentation:
- Copy of Marriage Certificate by August 15 of current year.
- Domestic Partnership
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Students in a same-gender/sex domestic partnership, i.e., that
- Share the necessities of life, live together and have an emotional commitment to each other of an indefinite length and would legally marry if there were no state prohibitions on same-gender/sex marriage;
- Are not married, are eighteen years or older, and are not related by blood closer than would bar marriage in the State of Ohio; and
- Are each other's sole domestic partner and are responsible for each other's common welfare.
Students are required to meet with the Assistant Director of Housing Administration prior to application for an exemption for domestic partnership.
- Documentation:
- Completed Domestic Partnership Affidavit packet.
- Responsibility for Underage Dependent Children
- Students who are the primary care-giver for an underage, dependent child defined as:
- the student's child or stepchild;
- having the same principal residence as the student;
- under the age of 18 or permanently and totally disabled; and
- unable to provide more than one-half of his/her own support.
- Documentation:
- Most recent year's complete income tax form listing children who were claimed as dependents by the student.
- Part-time Student Status
- Students enrolled for 5 credit hours or less.
- No documentation is required as information can be verified in Banner. Exemption will not be granted until after the Add/Drop period at which time eligibility will be verified. Part-time status also need to be approved by the Dean of Studies Office for Arts & Sciences Students and by the Conservatory Associate Dean's Office for Conservatory Students. More details on how to be approved for part-time status and contact information can be found by following the links provided.
- Accommodation
- Students with a documented medical, disability, or psychological condition that requires an exemption from housing and/or dining requirements.
- Documentation:
- Letter of accommodation granted by the Office of Disability Services or
- Letter of accommodation appeal granted by the Dean of Students.