Rice University Res. College Requests for Friends?

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<p>Alright. I know what you're thinking -- this idiot is worrying about housing before she even submits her application -- but heck, I'm worried! (You become slightly neurotic about making friends and all when you've grown up with no more than 40 classmates for your entire life until twelfth grade, where you were promoted to 70 classmates, none of whom even thought of applying for Rice.)</p>

<p>I heard that you could request to be put in the same res. college as another "incoming student." Could someone define "incoming student?" I know it definitely means you can request to be assigned in the same res. college -- whatever college it is -- with someone who will be entering Rice with you. But can you request to be res. colleged with someone who's a year ahead and already assigned if she is the only person you know on campus? My friend is a freshman right now who graduated from a different high school, and I'd be a year under her. I do know one other freshman, but she's in the same res. college as that other one. They happen to know each other, but only from church, and I think they either did what I'm asking to do or simply requested to res. college w/each other. They're not roommates. I'd ask them, but they don't seem to remember much.</p>

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<p>If you have specific questions like this in the future, you might want to post them in the Rice subforum, which is fairly active. “Incoming student” means exactly what it sounds like: another student who is starting his or her first year at Rice. You cannot request to be in the same college as a friend who is already at Rice. I don’t think you should be overly concerned about making friends, though, as O-Week at Rice does an amazing job of introducing new students to the other incoming students in their college. In fact, it might be better to have existing friends in a college different than your own, because some students complain that they feel their social circle becomes too limited to their own college and lament not knowing more people in the other colleges.</p>