University Housing has a team dedicated to the exemption request process. The team meets weekly and will review exemption requests on a first come, first serve basis. Once the team has reviewed the exemption request a decision letter will be generated and sent to the student requesting the exemption. Please be advised that University Housing will contact you once the request for exemption has been received and again when a decision has been made. We expect this turn-around time to be one week and will update students should it take any longer. Please understand we may be dealing with a large volume of exemption requests and we will process them as quickly as possible.

Also – please watch your UWM email, or check your messages in your Housing Portal. In the event your request does not have enough information or evidence, you will be contacted to ask for additional materials. Make sure you are opening all email from UWM.