Hello, I was recently admitted into UCLA, but my friend was waitlisted. We were planning on dorming together, but my UCLA portal says I need to submit my housing application by May 1, which is before people are admitted off the waitlist. Is there any way I’ll still be able to dorm with my friend if he gets accepted? Being able to dorm with him or not was going to affect my decision, so this situation kinda sucks. Is it also possible for me to enroll in a different school before May 1st, and then decide to enroll in UCLA after finding out that he gets admitted off the waitlist? Any information would be helpful thanks 
If you don’t SIR by May 1, you have officially rejected UCLA.
You won’t be able to room with your friend unless he or she gets off of waitlist, and only if there is space at the dorm that you chose. Also problematic is that you probably have to either choose a roommate and or have one chosen for you around May 1 as well.
My understanding is that you can only ethically SIR to one college. The waitlist applicants likely won’t be notified until well into July or later. You won’t be able to wait and see.
I will share I have two currently at UCLA who roomed with students they did not know and both had good experiences.
Your decision on which college to attend should really not be based on whether you can room with a friend in your first year. Really.
Thank you for your replies. I now understand that I have to submit my housing application by May 1st. Is there any way to request for a roommate change afterwards? Or is there absolutely no way that my friend and I will be able to dorm together now?
I would not count on it. By the time your friend finds out, it will be late in the process. You can submit a request but there is no guarantee.
It is time to grow up, it is fine if you guys won’t be roommate as you will still see each other around the campus if ever he gets a slot.
I do believe that UCLA has a roommate-switching day that’s on the calendar, they’ve got it down to a science. So this would literally be at the bottom of my list of things to worry about while getting ready for college.
Sorry if I gave you guys the wrong impression. My decision was never going to be largely based on whether I got to dorm with my friend or not. That factor was meant to be more like a small difference that could be a tiebreaker, if it came down to that.
Many friends who room together end up not only switching roommates but destroying their friendship. Your best friend may be impossible to live with!
^ that was my kid’s policy. 40 of his classmates went to school with him at UCB last year, yet he insisted on going random with his roommate selection.
You are worrying about the wrong thing. Your friend isn’t you and what your friend ends up doing should have no bearing at all on your college decision. Frankly, trying to room with a really good friend is usually a great way to ruin a friendship.
So if I just got accepted via waitlist, I can’t request anybody except other waitlist accepters because deadline for them passed?