Rooming Questions from Incoming Freshman

Hey guys! I was just wondering if Penn State rooming for Freshman was random or if you could pick/if there’s a matching process, etc.
Also, what dorms do freshman room in/ what would you recommend?
Thanks!

You can pick, or they can assign you randomly. There is surely already a facebook group for your class. Look under Penn State Class of 2020 or something like that. That’s where my daughter found her roommate last year. It’s going very well. But lots and lots of kids just go in randomly.

As far as dorm selection goes, there are a lot of threads on this that you can search. But in general, East halls is ONLY freshmen and is definitely the ‘freshmen experience’. That’s where my daughter is now and she is really happy there. Pollock has the next biggest number of freshmen but there are also other students there as well. South halls has a lot of sorority and also houses the honors dorms. Less Freshmen there and in North and West, but there are freshmen those dorm areas too and some of those areas have bigger rooms with more roommates. That’s the gist…but definitely search this forum for the threads on this. There is tons of information there.

Their is definitely a Penn State Class of 2020 Facebook page. My D belongs to it. Their is also some other social media sites that are already set up.