Here, the waiting period averages 18 months. Virtually all rooms are doubles. You'll eat in the St. Paul Student Center cafeteria, which connects to Bailey Hall. Availability of rooms there is determined by undergraduate enrollment. Applications for fall quarter should be made well in advance.
Rooms are more likely to be available in the winter and spring quarters.
Private apartments near campus are more expensive than University housing. Many of these apartments can be reached by the Roseville Circulator, a bus line that serves the suburbs north of the St. Paul Campus. Its routes converge at the Rosedale Shopping Center. Schedules are coordinated so that all buses arrive and leave within five minutes of each other. That means you can leave the St. Paul Campus and be at Rosedale within 10 or 12 minutes, transfer to another bus, and arrive at an off-campus apartment a few minutes later.