Future Resident Application

Becoming a Resident is Easy!

Follow these five easy steps: 

Step 1:  Be accepted to CSU Channel Islands and submit your intent to enroll.

Once you are admitted, you will receive an Intent to Enroll form.  Filing your intent opens many opportunities to access campus services including your housing application, so early filing is strongly encouraged. 

Step 2:  Submit your On-Campus Housing Application.

• Log-on to your Dolphin VIP page and follow the link to the housing application.
• Print out the confirmation page and send a copy of it with your $50 housing application fee to the University Cash Services office.

Step 3:  Return your signed Housing License Agreement Signature Page.

Once we've received your online housing application and fee, you will automatically receive an email regarding your housing license agreement and instructions on the next steps.

Step 4:  Make all scheduled payments.

Timely submission of all housing payments is necessary regardless of whether the funding comes via financial aid or private funds.  Whether you anticipate receiving financial aid or not, you'll want to be sure you submit your first housing payment before June 8 to ensure housing in the fall.

Step 5:  Move in!

The fine print:

• Students receiving full or partial financial aid awards who wish to defer housing payments are advised to contact Rachel Tafoya at (805) 437-3233 or rachel.tafoya@csuci.edu after receipt of a CI Financial Aid Award Letter to discuss these arrangements and assure housing accommodations.
• Please send initial payments no earlier than 72 hours after HRE’s receipt of your signed license agreement.  It takes 72 hours to process the signed license agreement and post housing charges to a student’s myCI account.   Payments which arrive prior to the receipt of a signed license agreement and posting of room and board charges are subject to return or delay in posting to your myCI account.