<p>How do you go about choosing a roomate? Do you just meet someone and ask them if they need a roomate? Or can it be randomly chosen? The only people I know from my school that are joining me are girls so I cant room with them, so i have to find a roomate now.</p>
<p>Most people don't come in knowing their roommate. When you do your housing app you fill out a little survey that's like "do you smoke? are you neat?" etc. (It's all BS anyway). When you get your housing assignment you get your roommate.</p>
<p>Or, you can arrange it with someone beforehand, and then you simply list each other as roommates on the app and you also have to pref your dorm choices exactly the same.</p>
<p>I thought that I heard somewhere before that they do not allow freshmen to chose their roommates. I could be wrong.</p>
<p>no, you can choose as a freshman, it's just that most don't. unless you have friends of the same-sex from highschool that you wouldn't mind rooming with, the majority of freshmen have their roommate chosen for them.</p>
<p>i came to NU not knowing a single person who was going to this school (i'm from CT) and i got extremely lucky: i had a double to myself from the beginning. for some reason, i was never assigned the roommate. do know that this is VERY rare, however.</p>