<p>ok.. first of all I am NOT homophobic but I'm sure everyone is aware that 1/3rd of the guys at NYU are gay. I would just very much "prefer" a straight roommate who I can spend a lot of time with rather than a gay one, not that I won't make gay friends. Is there anyway we can tell NYU when we fill out our rooming thing.. I'm sure it's a pretty big issue.</p>
<p>It’s an overplayed deal. It’s more of a joke/self-satire than truth. I did have a gay roommate freshman year but I was in a suite (4 people), and nobody else on my floor, or the floor above and below me were gay (this was from that roommate). If anything, NYU seems predominantly female because there seemed to be 3 guy rooms for every 4-5 girl rooms.</p>
<p>Also, there’s really nothing different about a gay roommate in terms of hanging out. Unless you plan on spending all day talking about chicks or something. And actually most women here seem to love the idea of having a gay friend so you’ll probably have them in your room all the time.</p>
<p>I mean, from what I’ve heard, the friends you make your freshmen year are the people you’ll be spending alot of time with for all 4 years… and I’d much rather prefer a friend who will hit on girls with me rather than use a gay friend as a tool to attract other females. And while I obviously won’t be talking about girls the time, I definitely will be looking to talk to some most of the time</p>
<p>True, but unless you only plan on having 1 friend that’s not really an issue. It’s not like a gay friend won’t go to a bar with you or something (although the bar scene’s overrated imho). I never had an issue even though we weren’t particularly close.</p>
<p>When I came in I don’t remember there being such an option on the roommate form, and I don’t imagine there will be.</p>
<p>Just because you room with a gay guy doesn’t mean he’s going to want to violate you in the night. What if your straight roommate thinks you’re gay because you want to spend a lot of time with him? Isn’t college partly about making friends with unexpected people?</p>
<p>haha did I say I was afraid he was going to violate me? no… I already made it clear, I would prefer to have a straight roommate because I know I will be best friends with that roommate for all 4 years and I would prefer that he were straight because then we would get along better and we’d both feel comfortable about sexual interests. Of course, I’ll make gay friends, I have gay friends at my school but If im going to be spending a lot of time with someone, I would prefer to have the same interests</p>
<p>lol, sorry, but being best friends with your roommate from freshman year is a total crapshoot. i know lots of people who could not wait to get the HELL away from their freshman year roommate, for various reasons.</p>
<p>Not me. Not rooming with freshman room mate any more but still very good friends now as a junior. She even came to visit me in Prague while she was in Madrid studying abroad last spring semester.</p>
<p>I will admit if you and your freshman room mate bond it makes adjusting your freshman year so much easier.</p>
<p>I do agree with you on that front, hs. It was just Colij’s “I know I will be best friends with that roommate” that kind of put me off. It can go in any direction, really. I know I said about 50 words to my first roommate at NYU, and she never even said goodbye to me when she moved out. C’est la vie, I suppose.</p>
<p>I wanna know about this roommate preferences thing too. Don’t other schools have like questionnaires to fill out? I kinda feel I need to have a non-smoker roommate. And it’d be an added bonus to room with someone of similar living habits (i.e., clean vs. disorganized, loud vs. quiet, social/inviting vs. private/personal, etc.). I mean, it won’t be a very good first-year experience if your roommate is the kind that hosts a party EVERY night when all you want to do is sleep or study for next day’s exams. Any thoughts and/or experiences?</p>
<p>this is like asking if i can have a white room mate</p>
<p>You can’t request a particular race, sexual orientation, political offiliation, whatever…</p>
<p>Look, part of college is leaving your comfort zone and meeting new types of people. At NYU, lots of students are gay. Lots of students smoke. Lots of students drink and many do drugs, while others are squeaky clean. You can’t self-design your own ideal roommie who will be your new bff. You have to learn to peacefully coexist despite differences. You’ll meet friends through your floor,classes, clubs, sports, etc. Rarely do people become best friends with their roommate. </p>
<p>@yshin0 - Technically, no smoking is allowed in the dorm but people do it anyway. If your roommate smokes, politely ask him to go outside. Unless you have asthma or a health issue, i wouldn’t be too concerned…although you’ll be exposed to a lot of smokers in NY. The city is filthy, polluted, and it smells like p!ss and cigarettes everywhere…ah, I miss NYC. :)</p>
<p>It’s not like asking if you can have a roomate of a particular race. That’s a flawed comparison. Instead, I think it is more like asking if you can have a roomate of a particular gender. I equate gender and sexual preference as being similar in this respect.</p>
<p>We don’t think twice about making sure that first year men and first year women don’t live together (in fact, the school won’t assign a first year man and a woman to the same room - suite yes, room no). And the school is creating space just for transgender people to live with other transgender people. I don’t think it’s inappropriate at all for someone to want to make sure there’s no possibility of sexual tension in their own room. How would the average woman feel if she were FORCED to share a double with a straight man? (I know how I feel about it.) Some would be ok with it. Some not. Why is forcing a staight man/woman to share a room with a gay man/woman any different? The same possibility of sexual tension exists. I can’t think of any other reason why would would say straight/gay selection IS NOT allowed, but forcing separation of genders is ok.</p>
<p>OKAY. </p>
<p>So I had to go to the Housing office today and I actually asked this question to someone WHO WORKS IN HOUSING.</p>
<p>~official answer~</p>
<p>No. You can’t request that you’re only in a room with straight people.</p>
<p>The REASONING is because it’s technically illegal to ask a student to disclose their sexual orientation in their application to NYU, or any other form for that matter.</p>
<p>And it makes sense. People would FLIP OUT if they discovered that their children had to tell a college whether they are gay/straight/bi/trans/queer.</p>
<p>It is NOT ILLEGAL to ask them what gender they prefer to be identified as. There is a place on the roommate placement survey that specifically asks “What gender do you choose to be identified as?” and you can answer male or female or intersex or trans. </p>
<p>When she laid it out like that, it made a ton of sense. </p>
<p>That’s the official answer, straight from NYU’s Housing Office.</p>
<p>lol if i could i’d rather want someone who could fluently speak cantonese as my roommate. (i dont know if i will get in yet lol just saying)</p>
<p>you’d better start searching now- NYU’s find a Rommate
[Find</a> An NYU Roommate! 2014 Edition | Facebook](<a href=“Facebook Public Group | Facebook”>Facebook Public Group | Facebook)</p>
<p>If I remember correctly from last year, NYU Housing does sponsor a roommate match where you can put in information about yourself that will then be matched with people with similar stats. My son did that and actually connected to someone from another part of the country who he had met through his roommate’s girlfriend- small world. Not sure about the rest- my son didn’t care about orientation of his roommate- just not a big deal to him.</p>
<p>lol but u can request a roommate if say ur best friend also gets in… and both of u want to room together? right?/</p>
<p>and also… out of curiosity… is it possible for you to room with your boyfriend if both of you guyz request each other :S?? i know that is allowed for 2nd year and co-ed but how about freshmen>???</p>
<p>there aren’t any co-ed rooms for freshmen. </p>
<p>i think you can request specific PEOPLE, yeah. but the original poster was asking about something else.</p>
<p>^ you can request specific people yeah. BUT it doesn’t always happen. I was supposed to live with 3 other girls and when housing assignments came 'round, they were all together in Brittany, and I’m in 3N, and so far I’ve had a ton of housing probs 
so it doesn’t always work out… but now I’m off topic.</p>