<p>Would it be better to request a roomate who is on the same track as you even if it is an area as competitive as premed? It would be convenient to ask questions about class and stuff.</p>
<p>Um, anyone have any ideas?</p>
<p>I dunno ... most of my girlfriends that I'm close with tend to have the same interests as me, so I'm hoping I get lucky. On the other hand, it can be good to expand your horizons and learn about other areas. It's probably best to just see who you land with, and if it's bad ... there's always the next year!</p>
<p>You're very unlikely to get a request like that honored. The housing department tries to throw completely random people together. If you two happen to be pre-med, it's not because they looked at the two of you and said, "Hey! Two pre-meds! Let's throw them together and see who kills whom first!" If you need to ask questions, it won't be that hard to find someone to ask. There are review sessions for classes, classmates, friends, etc.</p>
<p>Our roommate situation worked out pretty nicely and I got pretty much everything I requested apart form the fact that I was given 8 roommates instead of the 2 I had originally asked for. Granted, one of my roommates sounded terrifying at first over email communications, but she wasn't in real life :p</p>
<p>8 roomates? Woah, that's ridiculous. I wouldn't count that as having gotten what you asked for.</p>
<p>That's because they first randomly assign you to a residential college and then look at your requests. I was assigned to Wilson and I asked for sub free housing and there are no triples or quads in Wilson sub free housing. But I pretty much got everything else I asked for.</p>
<p>what is sub free housing?</p>
<p>Housing where the inhabitants actively choose not to keep alcohol/other substances in their rooms.</p>
<p>dont kid yourself sucharita, half the people in subfree, at least as sophomores, are in it simply for the first drawtimes and bigger rooms. substances, while hidden, are still there.</p>
<p>Yeah that's true. I don't think it's restricted to the sophomores either :p</p>
<p>However, since I was in a large suite where no one drank, things worked out pretty well for me. And in any case, the nicest rooms in Wilson are not substance free, which is kind of why I didn't draw sub free this year. Now I'm on the waitlist :-/</p>
<p>It depends on your college. Most of the people in Wilson (sophomores) who are doing sub-free actually are sub-free. Whether you get better rooms or not depends on where you're living on campus. I could see people doing it for the rooms in like Forbes or Mathey, but like in Wilson or Butler where it doesn't really matter because a lot of the buildings are the same the rooms don't carry that much weight.</p>
<p>The rooms in Wilson are not of uniform quality</p>
<p><em>cough</em> Clapp <em>cough</em> You'd know Phil :p</p>
<p>evil speaketh!</p>
<p>Haha. Okay, but you've got to admit, once you get beyond Clapp and Feinberg (which go to a select number of rising sophomores), it's pretty much all the same. That's why all the people with the good draw times clamor to go room shopping while everyone else is just like, "Meh."</p>
<p>Hee...hee....
I stayed with you over April Hosting.</p>
<p>Indeed you did. You were one of the lucky ones :)</p>
<p>Lucky?? I'm amazed that your crazy suite didn't manage to terrify the poor prefrosh!</p>
<p>Oh, it was lots of fun...that Jacob...</p>
<p>Ah yes, the famous Jacob :p</p>