Student hopes to get room changed (9)
I believe the answer is:
sophomore
'student' is the definition.
(sophomore is a kind of student)
'hopes to get room changed' is the wordplay.
'to get' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'changed' indicates an anagram.
'hopes' put after 'room' is 'roomhopes'.
'roomhopes' anagrammed gives 'SOPHOMORE'.
(Other definitions for sophomore that I've seen before include "Second year US student" , "US second-year student" .)