Frequently Asked Questions
We request two pictures of each contracted girl. You will be able to send these electronically to a specified email. We typically request one "headshot" and one casual picture.
We strongly urge you to carefully read the checklist and return ALL required documents with the contract. If you don't have your final photos that you want in your file, we ask that you send ones that you already have now and you can always send replacement photos later.
No! You must be an enrolled college student to live at Hardin House. We do not specify which college. We have residents attending UT Austin, ACC, and other universities across the country. We will simply ask for proof of enrollment/acceptance.
Contract packets will be available on our website in late January of each year for the upcoming school year! In order to access the contract packet you will need a username and password, which is emailed to all people in our applicant database before the contract launches. If you don't have an application with us yet, it is not too late! Just mail in your application with the $200 fee and we will give you a username and password to access the contract packet once contracts release.
Contract packets are posted online around the last week in January for the upcoming school year. As long as you have an application on file with us for the impending school year, you will be able to access the contract packet using the username and password that we have provided to you. Some of you may be accepted to UT before the end of January, but you will not be able to obtain your contract before that time. You do not have a space with us until we receive your contract and it is executed. We would never ask you to return your binding contract until you are sure that you will be in Austin and living at Hardin House, but we will accept your packet and hold you a spot if that is what your family has decided to do. Please know that once accepted you are liable for the full contract amount unless we can replace your contract. Even if we can replace your contract you would still be losing money according to the contract.
Every year is different, but for the last five years we have filled as early as March and as late as May. We do suggest that if your #1 choice is UT and Hardin House, you should return your contract as soon as you hear that you have been admitted. We cannot guarantee that spots will always be available at Hardin House, so we suggest that you e-mail or call us as often as you like to check on our availability. Shortly after our contract launches you can check our website to see how many spots are still available! Just log on with your username and password to see how many contracts we have received. We will update the website on a regular basis, but remember that the numbers shown may not reflect the exact total contracts received, as this number will be constantly changing.