<p>How does freshman housing work, and when does the application take place? I'm sure I'll learn all these things at Princeton Preview, and maybe even in the info packet I get with my paper acceptance letter, but I'm just curious.
Thanks!</p>
<p>Well you’re not allowed to choose your dorm or your roommate(s). </p>
<p>What they do is they send you a form (I don’t remember when) and you fill out stuff like words your friends would use to describe you, words you would use to describe your ideal roommate, how many roommates you want, what time you go to sleep, if you care about alcohol use, etc etc. You fill it out and then they assign you randomly to a residential college and not-so-randomly to some other freshmen.</p>
<p>[Moving</a> In](<a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/studentguide/moving_in/]Moving”>http://www.princeton.edu/studentguide/moving_in/)</p>
<p>This is also a nice guide that has a bunch of stuff for incoming freshmen</p>
<p>how extensive is the roommate form? and have most students been happy with their roommates?</p>
<p>The general consensus I’ve heard is that people are happy with their roommates. I got along fantastically with mine, and most of my friends (and I) have stuck with their original roommate for at least a second year.</p>
<p>@saccolicious</p>
<p>The roommate form is like 1-2 pages if I remember correctly. ray121988 pretty much listed all the questions they ask. At the end, there’s a box that asks you if there’s anything else Princeton should know when choosing a roommate. The amount you can put in the box is limited though. I forget by how much.</p>
<p>Sure most students are happy with their roommates (I wanted a double, but got 7 roommates. All of them are cool people and we get along fine), but I do know freshmen who rarely talk to their roommates not because they don’t get along, but because they don’t really have anything in common with each other.</p>
<p>If you don’t end up liking your freshman year roommate (which is pretty rare) they do have a stash of single rooms left over so you can move out of your room. So if you get the roommate from hell, you’re not completely doomed.</p>
<p>They’re pretty good about roommates.
I’m in a quad (4 person room, 2 doubles + common room), and I absolutely adore one of my roommates, switch between getting along/actually liking a second, and have minor problems with the fourth.</p>
<p>Just make sure you’re honest on the sheet, and when you meet your roommates on facebook be honest about how messy you are if you are in a quad or larger suite because that could affect who would be better fits to actually sleep in the same room.</p>
<p>Btw I knew some guys who tried the oldest trick in the book: they both said they were very neat (they lied) and wanted a neat roommate (so the roommate would clean up for them)… but they got each other.</p>