Roommate/Housing Chances

Hi all! Is there any possible way to set my settings to make sure my roommate and I stay together? I have a feeling I will get East Renovated because I accepted my offer so early but my roommate accepted her offer in early March. I would much rather stay with her but I obviously would love to be in East Renovated! Should I make my first priority my roommate or my location? Thank you! :slight_smile:

I’ve always wondered about this question as well. I was going to have my daughter call housing to ask on how to proceed. During D17’s NSO, they said if roommates were mutually requested you would be together. That makes me think to put location first and then-roommate second.

@kshea07 , how early did you accept your offer? There are quite a few renovated halls in east now, so you may be fine to prioritize roommate. Besides, if I had my choice, you can suffer through an unrenovated dorm way better than you can suffer with a bad roommate.

You put your priorities in the order that matters to you. So if you’d rather have the east renovated than the roommate, you put your priority as location first, roommate second.

my daughter accepted her offer of admission late February - selected East renovated or North renovated. Her potential roommate accepted early April. When daughter entered roommate on housing site she got a pop up that basically asked if she’d be willing to accept supplemental housing being roommate accepted after April 1. She checked off “no”. If she keeps potential roommates name on her housing request will she lose her request for E/N renovated??? Is there an option for her to put her location request ahead of roommate selection. (called housing and they said they were not to the point of supplemental housing yet anyway but I’m afraid she may end up somewhere other than her desired E/N renovated due to potential roommates later accepted admissions date and due to some conflicting answers from housing. Created an awkward situation - she doesn’t want to hurt the potential roommates feelings! - sorry- reposted this on “let’s talk housing thread”

@HelenH similar situation here. My son committed in early December and requested renovated east. His friend committed April 3rd, and asked him if he wants to room together. He would definitely live with him, but does not want supplemental. Argh. Friend totally understands and said he wouldn’t want to drag him into supplemental. Hoping they can request each other and put location as the priority. I think he’s going to call housing to ask. I wish this kid would have committed 3 days earlier!

@penmom222
Answer from housing:

Thank you for emailing. If you answer NO to the supplemental housing question, you would not be assigned with your requested roommate if she is assigned to supplemental. If you answered no and she wasn’t assigned to supplemental, you would be assigned with her in a double traditional room. With a January acceptance date, it is very likely you will be assigned to renovated east but not with her listed as your roommate.

Now it gets awkward - as of early April one representative said they weren’t to the point of supplemental yet so that means they’d be assigned to traditional together so my D would lose her renovated housing request - ugh.

@HelenH thanks for the info. My son definitely doesn’t want supplemental, and probably doesn’t want to give up renovated, either. If only this kid committed 3 days earlier! Grrr