<p>have any accepted students filled out the Roommate compatability questions? I just looked at it today and the questions are very limited. I don't see how this survey would be that helpful in pairing up students.</p>
<p>for example, one of the questions is "I prefer a roommate that is generally outgoing", with the answer choices being 'yes', 'no', or 'no preference'. The problem is that there is nothing on the survey to indicate whether the person taking the suvery is outgoing or not. Personally, I am quiet and would not call myself outgoing, but I would like an outgoing roommate. How is the school to know how to pair a student with an outgoing student if they don't know if the student is outgoing. I was confused.</p>
<p>Other questions are very difficult to answer with a simple 'yes or 'no'. Such as "are you a tidy person?" and "I prefer a roommate who studies frequently".</p>
<p>Anyways, I was wondering if anyone else had looked at this and found the questions slightly ridiculous. Is there any way to do a more comprehensive survey?</p>
<p>I think that all colleges use a sort of basic survey when matching potential roommates.
hopefully ,the limited input gets you matched up with someone that you are compatible with in terms of personality and all of the other factors.</p>
<p>Yea i didn't take the survey yet. But after looking at the sample questions, I have to agree with you. I almost want to write an essay on the kind of roomate I want. I know that is a little farfetched, but at least they could add some more questions.</p>
<p>Don't worry about it, I highly doubt they even look at it. I'm a night person and both my roommates are morning people, i'm messy they're neat. Their answers were the opposite of mine for the majority of the questions. All ended up well though.</p>
<p>Couldn’t agree more. Some of the questions may not even match up. For example, I said that I am “tidy” so that I don’t get paired with a messy roommate, not because I am tidy. Many are hard to answer just yes of no as well. </p>
<p>I would say my biggest fear going in to college is that I will get paired with someone that I just won’t be able to get along with. I suppose it will be surprise and I won’t know until the fall.</p>
<p>Well I don’t know how much they use the survey, but really I would suggest to be as honest as possible. I said that I was shy but that I wanted someone outgoing, and that I was messy but I wanted someone tidy. I got exactly what I asked for-- a roommate the opposite of me. Unfortunately, we didn’t get along at all. Point is though, the survey might affect it, so don’t put random answers.</p>
<p>The administration doesn’t have time to meticulously go through 2000 surveys and pair everyone up with their magical roommate-soulmate. </p>
<p>The survey isn’t a big deal. Fill it out honestly and hope for the best. I think matchings are pretty mixed. I was in a 5 person suite as a freshman and we LOVED each other. I remember us talking about those surveys and that we’d answered some questions similarly. But we were really varied, some were clean, some messy, some night people and some morning people, etc. </p>
<p>Plus, even if two people seem perfectly compatible on paper, it doesn’t mean that they’ll actually get along in real life. It’s really going to come down to luck, not how accurately you answer the survey, or the ways housing does assignments. </p>
<p>Just wait till the end of freshman year when you decide to room with your new best friends as a sophomore . That’s a disaster about 8 times out of 10.</p>
<p>^I totally believe everything you said Emily… I think it’d be dangerous to try to match people perfectly. My question is just, if I say that I want a tidy person, are they then assuming that I’m tidy (because there’s no place for my to state my personal tendencies)?</p>
<p>Haha, I agree with rooming with “your new best friends as a sophomore” being a bad idea. I’m going to be with relatively new people, and we get along but we aren’t best friends at all. On the other hand three of my roommates from last year are addicted to each other’s company and are together for next year; they decided it months and months ago. By the end of the school year though… you could tell they were going to kill each other next year. They get along great when there is a wall in between their rooms, but putting them together is just a bad idea. (One studies a lot and goes to bed at 11pm at the latest, one parties a lot and gets home at 3am, and one has the most disgustingly messy room I’ve ever seen in my life)</p>
<p>My roommate and I now are opposites and we lived together last year. My desk is always messy, his is pristine. He goes to bed at 2 on a school night, I go to bed at midnight. He has always had 8ams, I haven’t. Based on the questions of the compatibility survey, you would think we would never get put together. Yet we are best buds and get along great. I do see what you are saying though chimie, I do have some friends who lived together this year that hate each other. Though I find that happens more with girls (at least in my experiences).</p>