It never occurred to me, while filling out the application for housing, that they don't let you kind of "narrow" your pool for roommates. Obv they can't be prejudiced, so they would have to make it more simple questions, but my friend asked me tonight if I filled out a survey or anything um, no.. They didn't have one..

Did you guys have a survey or anything on your application?

We don't have anything about our actual preferences, but on Facebook, there's a group with a thread for roommates. I found mine and I am super excited!

There was a really useless one for UGA. So I found one on UGA's facebook group. Errr. We don't really get along that well I guess. But she's a good roommate? Better than a potential random roommate, I guess.

The surveys are bullshit. It increases the chance that you'll get a compatible roommate but they don't ask the really important questions, like:

1) Are you a dirty slut who brings home guys every day and sexiles your roommate?
2) Are you disgusting and only shower when plants wilt from your BO?
3) Do you just sound like a dumb bitch whose voice grates against people's nerves?

Things like that.

Our survey wasn't used to match roommates, but could be used for people to contact each other to see if they wanted to room. At least at that point you can discuss your lives and ask leading questions that would give you an idea of whether the person possessed qualities you couldn't deal with. Facebook helped a lot too, because you can see how the person looks, interacts with people, and whatnot. Sure it's creepy and stalkerish, but such is facebook.

I got a few questions. They were on a scale of 1-3. Like do you go to bed late? Does noise bother you? Are you messy?

for cu boulder, there were seriously like three or four useless questions like the ones mentioned in the above post and one asking if we were smokers or not. completely useless...but thank goodness i ended up with a great roommate.

Well I'm not in university yet, but my brother got to kind of "reserve" a room with his high school friend somehow. Not sure how though, sorry

Well I recently filled out applications because I'm transferring and I had to complete a survey or whatever, but since I know people I'm just gonna move into an apt. close to campus and room with the people I know

damn i need that survey when i go to college

ours is really shitty too. just a bunch of questions that needed to be answered. seriously though? freshmen roommates are really just by luck.

nope but if we have a friend at the school they let us pick them to share a room with.

yeah but at the same time, sharing rooms with friends either works out well or completely f**ks up a friendship.

I don't think I'd ever live in a dorm with a friend. In an apartment, yes, but dorm, no.

Yeah, our servey asked questions like:

Are you Messy/Neat?
What time do you go to sleep during the weekdays, weekends, and when you wake up?
What type of music do you listen to?
Do you study with music or with silence, etc?

It was stupid since I ended up with a roommate with sucky music tastes, insane hours, and ... I just dislike her.

Lucky for me we get to choose our own roommates next year and I'm already friends with my future roommate. We already talked out our habits, what annoys us about our current roommates, etc.

And we choose rooms and got an amazing place whereas my current roommate probably wont even get housing since her lottery number is pretty shitty.

I think it's karma.

I had a survey for my application, but it was like on a scale of 1-5 or something to that effect.

Luckily, I really really like my roommate. We're really good friends.

Yes I had to fill out some sort of questions, but I also listed a preference to a roommate. I got that roommate, and we were friends from high school so I thought all was well. We've been roomies for two years..I was wrong, she's a bitch, and she's moving out soon =)

We didn't get to pick our room mates at first, but I kicked mine out forcefully and had an old buddy move in. Since then, we kicked North Carolina's ass. It was a good 4 years. Now I'm home and a year from now he'll be moving up here with me to kick Maryland's ass.

Find one that fits your personality
or better yet see if anyone you know from high school is going to the same place?

I know some people who are doing that.

I want to hopefully room with my sister.

I never had to share a room, but I had a flat with 5 rooms... we didn't get any kind of survey/personality matching... we just got told our rooms, and met each other on the day of moving in.

My school of choice has a thing where after you get accepted, you go on this myspace type thing for the school, and you can meet people on there to help you find a roommate that you would get along with.

Oh, god, how I WISH Davis had given us some sort of in-between option in the dorms rather the black&white choices of a requested roommate and a complete stranger. I distinctly remember there being no survey, which I personally found odd, and while I got along well enough with my actual roommate, two of my suitemates were a completely different story. I did, however, find it entirely amusing that of the five girls in my suite (myself included), four of us were Asian. Even more entertaining was the fact that we were the only Asian females on our floor of about one fifty.

You should've started a facebook group with a survey, so you could request the person you found there. That's what people at my school do. The school gave us a survey, but it was useless, so we made our own.

We have a survey at Emory like "do you smoke" "what time do you go to bed" etc. It actually turned out pretty well, my roommate and I ended up having about the same sleeping schedules and all.. but never becoming friends. I don't think I talked to her more than 15 times really. I think she didn't like me because I drink occasionally (she's super christian)

But then I roomed with a friend last year and halfway through first semester she started bringing home her new f-buddy (not boyfriend) every night until he was basically LIVING in our room... so much for THAT friendship.

Next year I'm getting a single in an apartment with friends. Now that's the way to go.

QUOTE(paperplane @ Jul 9 2008, 08:48 AM)

You should've started a facebook group with a survey, so you could request the person you found there. That's what people at my school do. The school gave us a survey, but it was useless, so we made our own.

Eh, yeah, there was a Davis c/o 2010 group that was made, and a thread with a survey.. but nothing really came of it. And even so, it wasn't so much my roommate that irked me (she was probably my favorite out of the five of us), it was my two suitemates that were roomed together that I hated--and requesting your roommate with had no effect on who your suitemates were going to be.

RIT had no survey, I am so scared about my roomate. I don't find out till August 1st!

Yeah...I didn't have a suite, but most of my friends with them had problems with that.

Wow, that post of mine you quoted has many, many errors. >_> In any case, what made me sad about my hating my suite was that all the other suites I hung out with got along really well, and they all became best friends and shit whereas.. I never wanted to see the girls I lived with again. Terribly unfortunate.

I always thought that people interviewed potential room mates in order to get a general idea of how they really are. Hmm...television does that to you.