<p>One word of caution for parents: allow your kid to fill out the form truthfully. You might prefer that your kid say he wants a room for quiet study, as opposed to a room where people socialize–but if he really wants the latter, that’s how he’ll live, and his roommate will suffer, and there will be conflict.</p>
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Because a lot of kids do not clean their own room at home. I know there are a lot of people have cleaning service at home.</p>
<p>I second the advise to have the student fill out the form truthfully.</p>
<p>There were reams of forms to be completed and son asked for help with some of them, especially health history forms he was at a loss with.
But when we got to the roommate form, I gave him a bit of a speech and had him fill it out privately. I really didn’t want him to put what he thought I wanted to see and I also didn’t want to see his responses at all.<br>
It was yet another step of many in letting go.</p>
<p>My dd did fill out the form truthfully. She even had me evaluate her cleaness to make sure she was accurate. I also got her to make a roommate aggreement before school started. It all must of worked out right because she is continuing to roommate with the two roommates she had last year in a triple again. This actually limits where she can live. </p>
<p>I think it is important to get a roommate agreement before the school starts. </p>
<p>Only funny was that my dd played a sport that got her really dirty both in the Fall and Spring. I am sure her roommates were bothed by the amount she got dirty. Of course, she showered immediately after playing this sport. They were shocked to find out their sides of the room had more dirt and hair than her side.</p>
<p>My (rather slovenly) son mentioned that he was thinking about requesting a neat roommate because he thought it might rub off on him. I told him that that was a very bad idea, as anyone who is remotely neat would be frustrated living with him.</p>
<p>As I recall back when I was in college all the bathrooms were cleaned professionally. Since the hall bathroom were cleaned freshman year, they included cleaning of the bathrooms in upper classmen housing. The tiny bathrooms with just the toilet and the tub were between two double rooms that each had a sink. They didn’t clean the room but they could see them and I guess report it if anything was too disgusting.</p>
<p>Cobrat, Davidson offers free laundry service. Wellesley offers laundry service, though for a fee.</p>
<p>Kid wrote: he’s a morning person, keeps his room neat and clean, requires silence to study, does not like country music, rap music or any excessively loud music (survey asked what types of music you dislike.) Said he listens to “alt. rock with headphones only.” Survey asked if he’d be bothered by overnight visitors. S said “Yes.”
(I’m wondering if there will be any matches.)</p>
<p>^^atomom, I’d like to be his roommate. 
I also despise rap and most country music. Oh…wait, I am SO not a morning person, Lol.</p>
<p>**Post #24: “I think it is important to get a roommate agreement before the school starts.” **</p>
<p>Makes me think of Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory…</p>
<p>Atomom, your son sounds like my perfect roommate!</p>
<p>I’m sorry to let this one go–except I actually do like country music.</p>
<p>(I’m thinking he’ll get a Bollywood fan 
)</p>
<p>I do wish that dorm rooms got inspected a couple of time during the semester. I can’t believe how gross some kids’ dorms are. Ugh! </p>
<p>and the microwave ovens! What the heck are they exploding in those!!!</p>
<p>While my Dd asked for advice in answering some of the questions on her room preference form, my son never said a word or showed me his. It definitely worked out for him, as his first year room mate became his best friend and roomed with or near him three out of four years, with the one exception being the year his room mate was an RA.
When they compared notes later they learned that they both put down that they liked listening to Gregorian chants. Apparently this is the kind of important personal information that schools use to match perfect room mates. :)</p>
<p>At my old school, dorms were inspected once a month. The RAs were pretty strict. Now at my new university, dorms are inspected (I use this term really loosely) once or twice a semester.</p>
<p>Check the comment about laundry for SLS students. It’s about 1/3 of the way on the Cox video. </p>
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<p>i think that both rap and country suffer from ‘modernization’. in other words, the old school forms of each type of music were much, MUCH better (creatively and in every other way) than the soulless, tacky junk that gets packaged and sold today. </p>
<p>had to get that off of my chest…</p>