<p>Okay, I've been reading up on some pagegs on the housing website, and one of them talks about Room Selection for incoming freshman</p>
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In the past, incoming freshmen who have applied to live on-campus have been assigned to a room based on the housing preferences indicated on their housing application. We are pleased to announce that incoming residents will be permitted to select their own rooms for Fall 2011/Spring 2012. You will be able to go online to the myHousing Portal to select your own room.
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During your selection date and time, you will login to the myHousing Portal (located at my.housing.ufl.edu) to select a room. On the left side of the screen, you will select the Room Signup option. You will then be able to search for available spaces by area, building, room type, and number of available spaces in the room.
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<p>Okay, so after reading this I understand that the date in which I applied for housing is when I'll be able to choose my dorm. Simple enough.</p>
<p>I'm going to be rooming with a friend. Here is what is says regarding that:</p>
<p> [QUOTE=How does roommate selection work?]
If you know that you would like to be roommates with a specific student(s) for the Fall/Spring school year, you must search for a room in on-campus housing with more than one vacancy. Once you have identified a room and selected a space in on-campus housing, you will have the ability to place a hold on any vacant spaces still available in your selected room for other students with whom you would like to be roommates. You must use the other students UFID number to place the hold. Holds can only be placed for students with a valid Fall 2011/Spring 2012 Housing Contract. Once a hold has been placed, an email will be sent to the other student(s) notifying them that a space is being held for them and that they have 24 hours to either accept or decline the space. That student must sign on to the Housing Portal within 24 hours of the hold being placed (regardless of their Signup Date and Time), select the ROOM SIGNUP link and either Accept or Decline the held space. If the student does not Accept/Decline the space within 24 hours the hold will be removed from the vacant space. That space will then become available to any student participating in the online room signup process. Once the student Accepts/Declines the held space an email will be sent to you with notification of the students decision.
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<p>So, after all of this, what my question is, which it doesn't exactly answer on the page, is this: I'm going to be rooming with someone, but do I get to choose for him and myself when my priority is due? I applied for housing a while before he did, so I would get to choose before him, IF this applied. But, do I have to wait until it is his priority until we can choose? It doesn't address this. I didn't even know we had to physically choose our own stuff, I thought the school did that based off our priorities. Anyways, if anyone knows how this works, some insight would be great.</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>Kei</p>