So I’ve been accepted to Emory (main campus) under the ED I plan and am excited to be attending in the fall! I know I still have a while, but I was just curious if there was some sort of trend as to how incoming freshman went about finding roomates. I’ve already met a lot of cool people through the Facebook page and CC, but I thought waiting to take a questionnaire might be helpful in determining compatability between myself and potential roomates. I know there are sites that help students with this determination. Do most students use an outside service such as this to find a roomate, or do they use the Emory housing questionnaire?
Hi there! First of all congratulations on your acceptance to Emory College (you’ll love it here).
Since its still early during the college application process you will probably want to wait till RD results come out so you know get to see all the people that are going to be attending. I used the questionnaire last year but quite honestly the site wasn’t exactly helpful.
From my experience chatting people on facebook and talking with them for a week or two is probably the best idea to find a roommate that you’re compatible with. Thats what most of the people I know did or hey, you can always go random!
But RD results are so far away! And the housing app opens from the day RD decisions are released to May 31st. So if you wanted to wait and see everyone who is Emory 2020 then you will have to wait until May 1st, which is the deadline to decide for RD. I kinda want to find a roomate before hand…
I want to know who my roomste will be so we can get to know each other beforehand and also plan for the room but I feel like maybe doing the questionnaire will be best for finding someone compatible.
I’ve never heard of room surf, how interesting!
I think Mr. Creasy said that we will later be split up into boy and girl groups to find roommates on the facebook group.
I think the girl/boy groups come out when they admit RD and ED II kids. I just wish they had a more in depth questionnaire for those groups. I don’t mind messaging people on there, but it just seems that there are some questions that are better to be asked/answered by the survey and not asked explicitly while messaging someone, just because some potential roomate questions can be kind of personal.
@Oliea98 totally know what you mean about personal questions best not being asked to future classmates. It might be a good idea to do a questionnaire like that and if we backed each other up on those questions maybe people will start replying, you know? Like, I wouldn’t feel comfortable asking someone this face to face or even DM but like every time I visited someones dorm at emory the room would smell of shoes and that’s one thing I’m picky about. I put my shoes in boxes and they don’t smell and I can’t have a roomate who does that, I would be miserable. It’s just random stuff like that I think matter when making decisions because other stuff is easy to choose: when you go to bed, when you wake up, what temp you like your room. (And I think easy to compromise)
@ismitah yeah definitely!! Maybe I can see if I can come up with a way to make one! And yeah that’s exactly how I feel! I’m similarly sort of OCD about just weird, random things and some people I’m sure wouldn’t mind, but then again when you’re also trying to make new friends in general it can be kind of awkward to bring up when you’re first talking to them!
Total understand where you guys are coming from but take it easy till May. I know you guys are anxious to find your roommate (its an exciting thing!) but wait till May 1st come around and I’ll promise you, you will have more than plenty of time during the summer to talk to your roommate about planning the room and all that.
As for the questionnaire it could be a good idea to make one of your own if you really wanted too however through my experience I haven’t really found anyone that matched through surveys like those. And no roommate is perfect but as long as the roommate is willing to work those issues out with you during the school year thats whats important!
@AriaSalvatore Tried it out last year but the system isn’t that great and I couldn’t really get a match with anyone. I tried broadening the scope but it still didn’t help.
First-year Emory student here. Last year pages like Emory Bros Class of 2019 were created on Facebook to help people find a roommate. I suggest you guys create your own for the class of 2020; I used such a group to find my roommate and it is great.