<p>could current/past brown undergrads comment on how roommate assignments are done, especially for freshman? ive heard smatterings about questionairres of some sorts, but am still hazy on the details.</p>
<p>In around June, or so, the incoming students' housing questionnaire comes online. It has only a few questions about stuff like smoking (which is not allowed in dorms anyway), neatness, study habits (early or late to bed), and that's about it. Somehow they match up people by using these answers. It's pretty much the same everywhere, as far as I could tell.</p>
<p>There have been many internal studies at Reslife here and other universities which have proven Harvard's whole "total profile" thing to be completely bogus at predicting well matched roommates and that a few simple questions (early morning or late night person? neat or messy?) are just as effective at creating good matches.</p>
<p>But in the end, it's 98% random and works out 98% of the time.</p>
<p>Hmmm, this is weird... my tour guide in April said that it was a very detailed questionnare, with such inquiries as "Do you like to jump on your bed?" lol.</p>
<p>Maybe they can glean more information about us from that brief, non-specific questionnaire than we think. I ended up with a fellow vegetarian pre-med runner... :D</p>
<p>I hear the tour guides telling people all sorts of crazy things when they stop at Wayland.</p>