<p>I was wondering how UMich does roommate assignments.
I don't understand how they could do good partnering when they only asked a few questions in the housing application.
Is it completely random (besides those few questions)?</p>
<p>It’s pretty much random.</p>
<p>The only aspect of it that I know of that isn’t entirely random is your smoking preference. I spoke to like the assistant director of housing at some point and he told me that they try to pair students who are allergic together, and do not put smokers with non-smokers-- or at least they do their best to avoid it. That’s it.</p>
<p>Kind of a disappointment. I am a transfer student and I’d applied to colleges straight out of high school too, the housing form for the other school I considered had a whole questionnaire.</p>
<p>Poop. : (
I don’t like this.</p>
<p>You never know, you might get along great. And if not, just don’t hang around your dorm a lot. Or ignore them completely (if thats even possible)…</p>
<p>at one point, i thought it was random, but from experience i sort of figured out that it isn’t. They try to pair you up with someone similar to you, race, major, region, etc. My roommate freshman year was an engineer and had a lot in common with me, but he was instate, two of the guys next door to me were both from within 20 miles of where i lived in nyc. my hall was over 70% out of state/international. a few people i know have had similar experiences, i don’t think it’s all random at all.</p>
<p>^wow…
but how the housing staffs get to know you? Or did they read admission essays of everyone to match persons with similar interest?? lol</p>
<p>It’s not too hard to put together people of the same race, religion, location, major, etc.</p>
<p>^ Do they really do that though? Seems to me there’s something a little messed up about the housing administrators saying “okay, let’s put all the white kids in this hall, the black kids over here, the Jews over there…”</p>
<p>^
Yeah I would be surprise if they put all the students with the same race etc… in the same dorming since the school seems to encourage diversity. I doubt they do that. I even doubt they put students together by their religion, and somewhat region.</p>
<p>they don’t put all the white kids in the same hall, but for your roommate, i’ve seen too many black paired with black, asian with asians, for that to be a random process. they try to put international students together, and it’s really not that messed up if you think about it, you will have tons of people in your hall of various ethnicities, but for your roommate, I think they prefer to group based on your racial/background, people with similar backgrounds are more likely to get along, you are guaranteed to make 1 good friend as soon as you move in. And I think it’s not just Michigan, most schools do this, i’m sure it’s an interesting experiment if they pair a poor black kid from the bronx with a rich white kid from orange county, and it might work out, but i think they try to go for harmony.</p>
<p>From my days at Michigan, Markley was like 97% white (might be an exaggeration, but there seemed to be a lot more colored people in the other dorms on the hill in mojo, alice lloyd and couzens)</p>
<p>collegeranter, you’re ignorant. stop advertising on here and get off. No1 wants ur crappy and misleading products.</p>
<p>“they don’t put all the white kids in the same hall, but for your roommate, i’ve seen too many black paired with black, asian with asians, for that to be a random process. they try to put international students together, and it’s really not that messed up if you think about it, you will have tons of people in your hall of various ethnicities, but for your roommate, I think they prefer to group based on your racial/background, people with similar backgrounds are more likely to get along, you are guaranteed to make 1 good friend as soon as you move in. And I think it’s not just Michigan, most schools do this, i’m sure it’s an interesting experiment if they pair a poor black kid from the bronx with a rich white kid from orange county, and it might work out, but i think they try to go for harmony.”</p>
<p>If this is true (and I doubt it is), it is very messed up. It’s ludicrous to think that two people will get along better if they are from similar racial backgrounds. That kind of thinking is equivalent to the moral justification behind “separate but equal” doctrine. Many white people in positions of power in the South honestly believed they were doing black children a favor by having them go to school in a more “comfortable environment” where they wouldn’t have to deal with racial tension.</p>
<p>Any idea what they do with transfer students? I don’t know if I’d want to be paired with another transfer or not, I was looking forward to having a roommate that knows the workings of the University better than I do.</p>
<p>this is just what i’ve seen and what i think, the idea i shared isn’t ludicrous, it’s obviously a different point of view from yours. but this isn’t segregation, so i’m not seeing the similarities. imho, this is a school trying to help you feel at home and at ease during your first year in college. and I hate having to explain over and over that this is just my opinion, there isn’t a detailed report out there telling us their roommate matching algorithms. everything on this forum is an opinion.</p>
<p>They don’t do any sort of matching, it’s totally random.</p>
<p>do you guys know when we get our roomate pairings?</p>
<p>Early August.</p>
<p>has any exact day been released, or is it just some random day early in august?</p>
<p>In the Michigan Facebook group, someone has claimed that next Monday is when we’ll find out. There’s also been claims that it’s August 8th.</p>