Cronkhite Center Housing Applications are due Wednesday, April 30th.  All applications received after this time will be placed directly on the waitlist. 

For 2008–2009 housing at Cronkhite, please apply on-line or mail a completed PDF application to the Housing Office at 84 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138.

Summer Housing

For information about summer housing at the Cronkhite Center, please see the Summer Housing page.

Housing Eligibility

All full-time degree-seeking Harvard graduate students from the following schools are eligible to apply for a room in the Cronkhite Center:

• Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
• Graduate School of Design
• Graduate School of Education
• Kennedy School of Government

Returning Cronkhite residents have priority over new applicants and will be allowed to select their room for the following year prior to the lottery process.  

Housing assignments are completed through a random lottery process. All applicants are assigned a number once their application has been marked complete. Numbers are selected at random until all Cronkhite rooms have been filled. A waitlist will be established for any applications not chosen in the lottery, followed by those applicants whose applications were received after the due date.  For the 2007–2008 academic year, over fifteen people were selected from the waitlist for a space in Cronkhite. (Please note: Being placed on the waiting list does not ensure that you will be assigned a room.)

The majority of rooms available at the Cronkhite Center are singles. There are a limited number of two-bedroom suites with semi-private baths, and premium rooms (larger rooms or private baths). 

—Single Room ($7573 per academic year*)
—Suite Room ($8354 per academic year*)
—Premium Room (depends on specific room)

The Cronkhite Meal Plan is mandatory for all residents. The cost is $4317* per academic year. It includes two meals per day, Monday through Friday.  www.dining.harvard.edu/

Also mandatory is a $50 student activity fee.

*All prices are in USD and are for the entire academic year.

Application Process

• Applications for housing at the Cronkhite Center are available on-line, at the top of this page.  The application requires a $75 application fee payable on-line and a photo for the Cronkhite Face Map submitted on-line or sent to housing@radcliffe.edu to be considered complete.
• All Cronkhite applications are due at 3 p.m. EST on April 30, 2008. Applications received after this point will immediately be placed on the waitlist.
• Room notifications and contracts will be sent via e-mail after May 30, 2008.  Be sure to use an e-mail address that you check often in your application.
• All signed contracts and room deposits (checks and money orders only payable to the Radcliffe Institute) must be returned to the Housing Office by July 4, 2008.  Contracts not received at this time will be considered “void” and the room will be given to a member of the waitlist. The online application and PDF version are available on the right menu.

Other Important Information

Cronkhite Community Standards Regarding Noise

Cronkhite brings together students from four different Harvard graduate schools. All of our students are faced with difficult academic demands, involving deadlines at different times throughout the year. This makes it essential to keep noise levels in the building low, even on Friday and Saturday nights.  Students who do not wish to live in this type of environment may want to search for alternative housing options.

Current Residents

Click here to visit the current resident Cronkhite website. PIN and password are required.  

Click here to visit the current resident handbook. 

Housing Office, 84 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Photo by Florian Zinoecker