In mid June I emailed housing to see if I could request a roommate even though it was past the deadline and they said that I could but my roommate and I would be placed with lower priority. We both sent housing our information to request one another, but when we received our placements on Monday I was placed in Oxford and she was placed in mojo. I called housing and they said the only thing I could do was wait until roommate assignments came out and see if one of our roommates were willing to switch or I could put my name of the waitlist for reassignment. I feel like this isn’t fair because I received a bad placement due to requesting a roommate late, but then didn’t get placed with my roommate, and I feel like housing should have to sort this out instead of just doing nothing. If anyone has advice on what my roommate and I can do I would appreciate it!
I guess I’m confused - you were late with your request, but now it’s their problem? Maybe I didn’t understand your post. How many kids are they trying to place? 10,000? I think asking them to rectify this is unreasonable. Just follow their instructions.
We asked them if they were still accepting roommate requests and they said yes but we would be placed later. So while the request was made past when we submitted our applications, they still told us that we could be placed together
Its sounds like they did make an error because they told you they could match you and your requested roommate together.
I would not ask the two assigned roommates to switch. I just think that is rude and puts them in an awkward situation. I guess at this point I would ask housing to please try to rectify the situation but if they can’t, go with it and have the best attitude possible. You don’t know - maybe this was meant to be for any number of reasons. Above all please be kind to your roommates. This isn’t their fault and don’t dampen their experience or make them feel unwanted. Keep this one under your hat if you can’t room with your chosen person.
Pretty sure it would work out if you asked the Oxford random roommate to switch to MoJo. Then you and your chosen roommate could room together in Oxford.