<p>Do you need to pay the deposits before you pick your dorm? Do you get to choose your own dorm mates or not in Stony brook?</p>
<p>Yes. You need to pay both deposits and complete your New Student Preferences form online.</p>
<p>On the NSP form, you’ll rank the six Undergraduate Colleges in order of preference. Details about each is here:</p>
<p>[Stony</a> Brook University Undergraduate Colleges](<a href=“http://www.stonybrook.edu/ucolleges]Stony”>Home | Undergraduate Colleges)</p>
<p>The earlier you pay your deposits and complete your form, the higher on your preference list you’ll be placed; Roth Quad (Science & Society) and Tabler Quad (Arts, Culture, and Humanities) tend to fill up first.</p>
<p>As far as roommates go, if you wind up in the same UGC, AND if you list each other on your NSP forms, then your chances increase of being placed together. My unofficial recommendation? Fill out the forms at the same time, ranking the UGCs in the same order, and pay your deposits on the same day. I’d think that’d be a low-tech way of increasing your chances of rooming together.</p>
<p>There are no guarantees when it comes to preferred roommate selection, but if you play your cards right, it’s certainly possible.</p>
<p>Chris</p>