<p>what im trying to say is that when people at UCSB are assigning you to a room, are you put with people who have similar classes to you or are you just going to put in randomly? because im majoring in computer engineering and i really want a roommate that is also in engineering.</p>
<p>you fill out a roommate questionaire and based on the answers you provide, they’ll match you up with someone who answered similarily to you so you might not get someone in your field of major. ie. i’m a math major and my roommate is a ME major</p>
<p>do we have to fill out a questionaire if we already have someone we want to roommate with? or is there a space in the questionaire to put their names/perm#</p>
<p>^There’s a space where you put the other person’s perm number. It’s only honored, though, if you both put each other’s perm number down.</p>
<p>you also have to provide the same answers on the questionaire.</p>
<p>How good is the housing staff at matching people? And do most people get their first choice for housing (especially if they’re applying for an LLC)?</p>
<p>To be honest, those housing matching forms are pretty worthless. I don’t know of anyone who got someone they wanted. You have to understand that some people partied it up in high school and then settle down once they begin at UCSB, and other people that said that they go to bed early on their survey but once they are exposed to the party scene at UCSB they are the last ones back in a dorm at night. I think it’s good in any case because most likely you’ll room with someone radically different from you and it’ll be a good learning experience.</p>
<p>I don’t know the stats on how often people get their first choice, however.</p>
<p>TWSA50, apparently the LLC gets first priority when adding students to dorms then goes in the regular students.</p>
<p>Do Regents scholars/honors students get priority when it comes to requesting the quiet floor or Scholar’s hall? I know there’s a limited number of spaces.</p>
<p>Yeah, you do. There’s actually a lot of spaces for the scholars floors according to the website so I think you’ll have a good chance getting in.</p>
<p>Really? My tour guide said the spaces fill up fast.</p>
<p>Well according to the housing website there are 276 scholars hall spaces (plus 40 for CCS), and that sounds like a big chunk to me. Failing that, you can request a Quiet floor or a Substance-free floor. Failing that, you could request Manzanita Village which is typically quieter (and the rooms keep the noise out better than the freshman dorms I’ve found). I think there’s a lot of options to get into a quiet or more studios dorm.</p>
<p>I didn’t like Manzanita because of its proximity to the parties. However I went during floatopia so I can’t really say for sure.</p>
<p>konakai, check out my post on Manzanita here:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1062232737-post69.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1062232737-post69.html</a></p>
<p>Trust me, I lived in Tecolote House (second house closest to DP facing outwards toward the DP direction) and I would barely get any of the noise from Del Playa. The parties kind of thin out towards the DP cul-de-sac at Ocean Road and Manzanita itself is very well shielded from the party scene.</p>
<p>I guess I worry too much.</p>
<p>And just a note, most of the people accessing Floatopia will take the Embarcadero Beach Access at 6550 Del Playa, the Del Playa/Camino Pescadero intersection, or the 6700 Del Playa Beach access through Window-To-The-Sea-Park. The closest beach access to Manzanita is actually east of the complex and that part of the beach wasn’t part of Floatopia.</p>
<p>Thanks for the input. I’ve been really worried about the party scene but it’s not as bad as I made it out to be.</p>
<p>How’s the college selection process going for you, by the way? Any closer to making a decision? I know it must be tough when you have a school bribing you to attend, heh. What were your impressions of the other UCs you visited?</p>
<p>I’m visiting Berkeley on Cal Day and I’m thinking I’ll end up there. If for some reason I really hate it there, I’m most likely going to UCSB because although I liked UCSD, it didn’t blow me away. It was a nice campus, but so is UCSB and if UCSB is giving me a great scholarship, it would be stupid to turn that down. The main problem with UCSD is that it’s a bit isolated from everything whereas Cal and UCSB are in college towns. The whole Floatopia thing really threw me off, but I now realize that many of those students don’t even go to UCSB and I don’t have to go to the parties if I don’t want to. Heck, I didn’t know Floatopia was going on until I entered Isla Vista.</p>
<p>Cool, have fun. Berkeley does have a pretty active student area area around campus, such as where Telegraph Ave runs into campus (minus the number of bums there haha). Good luck!</p>