How does the college roommate selection process work? 9 Articles

by Shilo Dawn Goodson

One of the most important things about starting college is having a roommate you don't hate. If you start off with a bad one, it just makes the college experience almost unbearable. That's why many schools try to make it...read more

by Olivia Puffer

This past April and May, many of the seniors in the high school where I work as a guidance counselor were talking about their future rommates as they received notices from their various schools of who they would be; some w...read more

by Carol Natoli

It is so hard to live with a stranger, but remember, you don't have to be his/her best friend! Students go off to their new life and think that they have to love their roommate. Think of this as a business proposition. Y...read more

by Marie Gerber

As an incoming college freshman, adjusting to living with a new roommate can be one of the most difficult and terrifying aspects of the college experience. Most college freshman have never been forced to share a space as c...read more

by Nicholas Stitt

Random number generator. It's really that simple. When you responsibly return the note to the Residence Hall Office having selected the "Yes, I want to live on campus!" option, they stash away your money and a computer p...read more

by MsRefusenik

When I went to college in the Seventies I was a left-leaning semi-anarchist who hated Richard Nixon like the devil himself. I loved loud rock and roll music and thought it was conducive to studying. I was a terrible slob...read more

by Richard Diskin

The institution would like us to believe the roommate selection process is based upon mutual hobbies and personalities. However, from my experience of College I found myself living with seven other individuals who shared l...read more

by Andrew Spriggs

Although each college's roommate selection process is either slightly or incredibly different from one another (different enough that any answer to the question is likely to be incomplete), there are a few basic systems th...read more

by Manda Sanko

The roommate selection process varies greatly from college to college. Most colleges either A) have students fill out a mini-personality test to match them with someone "compatible," B) select randomly, or C) allow studen...read more