I want to room in Landis (I’m in honors), but I also may put in a roommate request. In receiving my housing decision, will priority go to putting me with my roommate or putting me in Landis? I definitely want to room in Landis, and I don’t know if I’ll want to put in a roommate request if it can jeopardize my ability to room at Landis.
My priority number is around 4500 (is this bad?)
Thanks so much!
I think your roommate has to be in the honors program too in order to live in Landis. If your roommate is not in the honors program, then I suspect the two of you will be placed together, but in a different dorm.
Correct, anyone living in Landis will have to be in the Honors program.
If you say that you want to live in Landis, you wouldn’t be able to room with a friend that isn’t in Honors. And if you say that you want to live with your roommate, you won’t get Landis unless they’re in Honors as well.
When we went to the Honors Program presentation at Preview in February they specifically said that you have to live in Landis if you are in honors. The only way you could live outside of Landis was if you were in a Living Learning Community. Those were the only 2 options. I could be wrong but I also thought I heard them say there will be enough room in Landis for everyone this year without needing to use Gilchrist as Honors overflow. Don’t quote me on that though… 
@2collegehopes Just curious when you submitted your housing deposit? My daughter submitted hers minutes after the 3/17 housing opened and got 5335. I’m wondering if there really are 5334 students accepted in the first decision group ahead of her in line? Furthermore, last year 16,674 students were admitted, and 6100 enrolled. So that kind of tells me that if there really are 5334 ahead of her, a large % (maybe 30%+) will cancel their housing.
We submitted S’s deposit in February (S was in the first batch of acceptances in December) and his number was 4700-something. At Preview last week, we were told that
that should not preclude him getting placed in Landis
Honors program kids needed to be in Landis or an LLC.
his number Is, in practicality, probably about a thousand places lower due to kids who wouldn't be coming to FSU or who would be choosing to room with people with lower numbers.
We were also told by one of the housing people there that most roommate problems requiring moving someone out of the room come from kids who match up on facebook and virtually none from kids who fly solo and just live with whomever they get matched with. (Don't know if that's true or a cheap ploy to get kids to try pot luck, but that was what we were told. Maybe the pot luck kids are just more laid back?)
@wvalx2001 I submitted mine in late February. That actually does sound very promising, hopefully we’ll all end up where we want to!
I was told that if you request to room with someone else, your assignment for housing is based on the “worst” number. So if person 3000 and 4000 are requesting to room together, it’s the 4000 that is used for assignment not the 3000,