How does dorm selection work?

I met my hopeful roommates through a facebook group, and we all want to live in presidential 1. we just filled out the application today as soon as it opened and we all selected the same preferences. how do we pick that we want to live in presidential 1? or can we not do that?

Eventually you get an email from Housing giving you a date/time for room selection (based on when you paid your housing deposit). You’ll log in at your assigned time and pick your desired building/room. If y’all change your mind about Pres 1 you can pick anywhere when its time to pick (in case you wondered).

If its anything like this last year, you can only pair up (officially) within the housing app, so if you have 4 roomies you’ll form 2 pairs. Then one person from one pair picks an empty suite, and one person from the other pair quickly picks the remaining half of that same suite.

Clear as mud!