<p>I just wondering how do they assign roommates in the orientation. Thanks</p>
<p>As far as I could tell it’s random within the same gender. Or opposite gender if they screw up (it happened to my 1st year roommate for the first night).</p>
<p>It may possibly be by major… because I’m a MIMG major and my two roommates were both bio majors.</p>
<p>Mine was done by name. I’m pretty sure it was by name. Since the rooms next to me all had the same last name, and my roommate actually had the exact same name as me.</p>
<p>I agree with the name comment, my roommate and I had near identical last names.</p>