Honors Quad vs Jester East

Hi! My friend and I want to room together but he’s not in honors and so his first preferred dorm is jester east, and I was planning to dorm in honors, but was considering moving to jester east instead. However, someone on a reddit thread said that if I wanted to room with my friend in Honors Quad, i can request a dorm in honors and then assign my friend to the honors dorms and room with them?? is this true??

It’s possible for a non-Honors students to live in the Honors Quad. It’s unlikely though as it can only happen if there’s room for him, after room requests are done, with 1st priority going to other Honor students. It can’t hurt to try. I’d call housing to confirm, as well as discuss your plan B, if it doesn’t work ie. you don’t want to loose out on both the Quad and Jester, waiting on being paired up.

I know of someone who tried to assign their Honors dorm room preference at selection time last year to their non Honors roommate and the system would not allow it. That isn’t to say that there could be a different procedure this year or that you could somehow call in advance and have your choices allowed. I would definitely find out officially before the Honors dorm selection time slot as it was pretty chaotic last year and the rooms filled up extremely quickly.