<p>Does anybody know if you can choose your suite mates and if so, whether or not this process is effective?</p>
<p>Yes, you can choose your suitemates. Nothing is guaranteed, but you can indicate six people you want for suitemates on the housing application. You have to have their PID numbers, though. And of course, you might not want to be in a suite with seven people you already know... It might be better to know only your roommate and keep the others random: )</p>