<p>Because of the house system, is roommate assignment totally random, or can you request a specific person?</p>
<p>hey dude it's worth it worrying about things like this after we get in.
i think admitted pupils fill in the online housing application and yale chooses roomies for everyone.</p>
<p>Harvard has a "house system." At Yale, they're residential colleges. And any Yalie will tell you there's a big difference!</p>
<p>Yale did a great job picking suitemates for my D. She is best friends with her actual roomate and all the suitemates get along really well, so well that they are choosing to stay together for the rest of their time at Yale.</p>
<p>You can't request a specific person.</p>
<p>^^ In contrast to singermom1's D, my daughter is not best friends with her suitemates, but finds them to be very interesting, diverse and easy to live with (good social skills, sensitive, not partiers.) Yale did a good job placing them together.</p>
<p>Hmmm. Maybe other almuni can chime in. Two of my friends were roommates at Boarding school and were freshman year roommates as well. It would seem that they must have requested it. Never thought about this before...</p>
<p>You can request a college if your parent or sibling was in it. other than that its random, so chances are you won't already know people in your college anyway (since they like to split it up anyway- its a controlled random so you wouldn't end up with people from the same school in the same year in the same college for the most part). and freshman year you cannot choose a roommate. you fill out a survey in the spring and they use it to assign you roommates and suitemates. after freshmen year you choose your roommate and suitemates (and they have to be in your college)</p>