<p>To my understanding if you are going to live on campus you have to fill out a Housing questionnaire to help place you with a roommate. </p>
<p>I was just curious if anyone knew what the housing questionnaires typically asked? (i.e. do they ask about sleeping habits, snoring, cleanliness, medical issues, if your a morning
ight person, etc..)</p>
<p>This is just to satisfy my curiosity :)
Thanks!</p>
<p>Hi, Berkeley student here. I don’t remember all the details… some of things it did have: when you sleep/wake up, smoking or not, cleanliness level (1-5), whether or not you want a roommate who’s around a lot… that might’ve been it. Pretty short questionaire, but it covers the important things.</p>
<p>There’s an optional section for medical issues… those being official, doctors notes kinds of things, pretty much anything that’d get you a single, a room on the ground floor, etc. Special needs or disabilities.</p>
<p>You won’t find things like snoring or personal interests on there, it’s more to make sure you won’t kill each other. Having a messy roommate if you’re a neat freak, or a room who sleeps 4 hours before you do, really doesn’t work out. So they just want to avoid that and make sure your lifestyles are sorta compatible.</p>
<p>Different schools ask different things of course… I’ve only got personal experience with Berkeley. But most should at least do smoking/nonsmoking and what time you sleep.</p>
<p>I’m at Cal as well and yeah that pretty much sums it up, my friend at UCSC said they asked his favorite type of music and that was actually heavily weighed in on the decision. </p>
<p>Drinking was also on there. If you do not smoke I highly advise you put it as a 1… A lot of people who “smoke” smoke weed in their rooms so if you say you are alright with it you may live with the smell of pot every day of the year lol.</p>
<p>Thanks @failure622 and @mrandall</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity do they give you a choice in what dormitory/on-campus apartment building you want to live in or what hall (if there are different themed halls, i.e. quiet halls, same sex halls, gender neutral halls, etc…) you can live in?</p>
<p>Also, do they give you any sort of choice between single, double, triple, or quad rooms?</p>
<p>Personally, while I’d LOVE to live in a single, to my understanding getting a room with more roommates is a much more economical choice and I want to save money, not spend more where it is unneeded.</p>
<p>Again, super Berkeley specific.</p>
<p>Yes, you get to rank your top 5 choices, and after that it’s a lottery. So you could put something like…</p>
<ol>
<li>Single in Martinez (Apartment)</li>
<li>Double in Wada (Apartment)</li>
<li>Triple in Wada (Apartment)</li>
<li>Mini-suite Double in Unit 1</li>
<li>Any</li>
</ol>
<p>So you need to specify both type of room and general location. It’s kind of annoying. Martinez apartments (4 rooms per apartment) is the only place you’re likely to get a single without medical reasons. Berkeley’s system is a lottery. When your number comes up, they put you in your top choice that still has space, or in option 5 “any housing”. Sometimes you won’t get one of your top choices and will just land somewhere on campus… so, you kinda get a choice, but nothing’s certain.</p>
<p>There’s a handful of theme programs… SWE is a STEM/girlpower kind of thing, there’s something african american related, Freeborn (in unit 1) is substance free… I don’t know them all, obviously. Yes, that’s part of the housing questionaire, but it’s separate from the roommate matching and fits closer with which building you get. When housing offers come up, they offer you a spot in “unit 2 mini-suite double”, for example, and then do roommate assignments much much later.</p>
<p>That’s all Berkeley related, take it with a grain of salt with respect to the other schools.</p>