<p>What kind of questions appear on a questionnaire? What are some other things that colleges look at/do before assigning roommates? And most importantly, are you happy living with the person you were paired up with?</p>
<p>oo i have a question abotu this too. on the questionnaire, do they ask if you care if your roommate smokes...</p>
<p>they do roomate questionnairs, and supposedly match you up by what you respond. but its pretty much random from what i have seen of people's roomate pairs. they do ask if you care about smoking, and i dont think they'll pair you with a smoker if you mark that you don't want a smoker. either way, its pretty much the luck of the draw if you and your roomie(s) have tons in common. my roomie last semester and i got along, but didnt have much in common. due to problems, she moved out. my roomie next semester seems great, we have lots in common, at least from the phone calls we've had with each other, but i guess i will find out how she really is when we go back next week.</p>
<p>the only question i got on my "questionnaire" was if i smoked or not and whether i'd like to room with another honors student...it all really depends on the school.</p>
<p>mine asked what my favorite music genre's are (they gave me someto choose from), if I smoked/wanted to live with a smoker, what time I usualy went to sleep, and if I wanted my room to be more public space or private space. It also asked if I waned to live with an athlete.</p>
<p>equine99, are you an athlete yourself? I've never heard the athlete question.</p>
<p>My questionnaire asked similar stuff as people have mentioned, also asked if I liked to do work with music on or not. It also asked rather "stupid" things like if I had some sort of disability that required assistance, or required being on the 1st floor. I say "stupid" becuase I mean yes, they are important to know, but for the most part those questions dont affect you.</p>
<p>My roommate is awesome, he and I get along really well and hang out alot. I feel like in my area of my dorm, everyone's roommate pairings were perfect.</p>
<p>I'm not an athlete, but I said I didn't care either way and was paired with an athlete who ended up dropping her sport (the way over recruited).</p>
<p>We have exactly the same taste in music, and get along great, so mine worked out well, too.</p>
<p>i go to barnard, which is kind of known for being a good roommate matcher. they ask lots of questions, like if you're a night/morning person, around what time you go to bed/wake up, if you're cluttered or clean, types of music you like and types you refuse to listen to, if you want to be friends with your roomie or just co-exist, what you're most excited about for college (you would pick from like joining a sorority, being in nyc, your classes, meeting new people, etc) and so on. they have you rate your answers on a 1-5 scale, and then they ask you which things are most important to you (music, or sleep?).
they match people living in quads first, because there's more people who have to be compatible. what they do is take all the people who said they were in morning people and put them in a pile, then within that pile take the neat freaks, and within that pile take the people who like to listen to classical music, and so on. they also like to try to make you similar in lifestyle but dissimilar in life experiences - so they might put a rancher's daughter from texas with a california bay area girl who are both morning neat freaks with classical music.</p>
<p>one of the things i was most looking forward to was getting away from my parents who are both heavy smokers. i couldnt wait to have my clothes smell clean. and then i got to college and found out i have a roommate who smokes nearly as much as both my parents. despite the fact that i checked that i don't smoke and dont want a roommate who smokes. it's been kinda awkward but ok, and most people in college end up at least getting along with their roommates.</p>
<p>Totally depends on the school. Wake only asks 5 basic yes/no questions - smoker, drinker, bed before 12 on weeknights, etc. They tend to put people together pretty well most of the time somehow from those 5 questions...(well, my experience hasn't been wonderful, but all my friends are at least amicable with their roommates). On the other hand, I talked to a friend at William and Mary who says they were only asked what kind of music they listened to...</p>
<p>juba2jive</p>
<p>that is not the survey I took before Freshman year (re: W&M). Mine had 8 questions, including, smoking preference, lots of visitors or few visitors, weeknight bed time (or morning or night person, something about sleep hours), messy or neat. Maybe something about music too.</p>
<p>I wish my survey asked sleeping habits as my roommate and I have totally different sleeping habits... He studies til 3/4AM each night and I try to go to bed at 12 but its hard since he studies</p>
<p>Yeah, that's probably a little more accurate, as my knowledge was secondhand - my apologies!</p>
<p>That does make a little more sense though. I was wondering how exactly that would be the best way to pair people.</p>
<p>my college does it completely randomly. we dont even get a questionnaire. luckily for me, it worked out great-- my roomie and i are best friends. however, i know a ton of people who were unhappy with their roommates. its all up to chance at my school.</p>
<p>If u know a friend going to same college and u both want to room together can u put that down? Also how do colleges deal with roommates and religion? Can u specify u want someone same religion or someone willing to accommodate ur religious restrictions?</p>
<p>Way back in the stone-age (a whole 6 years ago...) I was only asked whether I smoked or cared to live with a smoker and what kind of music I listened to...oh yeah, and of asked for a ranking of dorms I wanted to live in!</p>
<p>I said I listened to rock music and didn't smoke nor wanted to live with a smoker...</p>
<p>First roommate: smoker (lied on the application, she didn't want her parents to know she smoked) and listened to only pop-music (which she considered 'rock'...I consider 'rock' to have some guitar/bass/drum combo...)</p>
<p>Second roommate: non-smoker (yay!) and listened to rap/r&b (BET was on 24/7 whenever she didn't have Cartoon Network on...she wouldn't allow me to hook up my t.v. without a splitter and never allowed me to watch anything I wanted..but that's another story)...</p>
<p>So...you can say what you want, but they aren't perfect in matching to what you put down (oh yeah...and I sent in the deposit RIGHT after I got the acceptance letter).</p>
<p>If you know a friend going to the same college, yes you can ask to be paired with them but it is HIGHLY DISCOURAGED!
They do not do anything with religion because pairing people together by religious preference would be deemed racist</p>
<p>At my school you can either fill out the shorter questionnaire which is like 5 questions or so and put what dorm you want to live in, or you can do the online roomate finder.</p>
<p>You put your profile online and fill out a longer (like 10-12 question) questionnaire for that. Then you fill out a profile of what your ideal roomate would be, then they give you a list of what most closely matches your ideal roomate with their e-mails. Then you e-mail back and forth with people and choose your own roomate.</p>
<p>At my college, it's totally random. I don't think there's even any questionaire or survey.</p>
<p>all night sessions of spin the bottle</p>
<p>UC Berkeley asks what time you sleep, whether you smoke or not, whether your drink or not, whether you're neat or not, and there's one more, but that's about it. </p>
<p>As for my roommate, we get along, but of course there are differences that come along when you put two people in a living situation.</p>