<p>If we don't find a roommate by May 1st then will you be auto-assigned one? Will they put you with someone who has a similar profile to you or is it completely random?</p>
<p>I second this question. I’m borderline freaking out here because I haven’t been able to find a good roommate yet. Granted, I haven’t really had the time to put into it but…</p>
<p>Yep. They’ll assign you to a roommate. You’ll get their housing screen name and email address, and you can look up how they answered the questions. If you’re a girl, you’ll contact your new roomie, start to communicate, and maybe even meet (if you live in proximity). If you’re a guy, you’ll ignore your mother telling you to contact your roommate. And ignore her. Etc. And the week before move-in you’ll finally give in and discover who you’ll be living with for the next year. Don’t worry. It often works out great.</p>
<p>How soon are roommates assigned? How soon do the students find out who they will be rooming with? I assume most kids get assigned through housing and do not select their roommates right?</p>
<p>That’s what I would think. Also, I believe housing assignments are given out mid-May.</p>
<p>This is probably a dumb question, but on the roommate matching section of the housing app, are the people listed as “matches” strictly based on their profile or did they also choose similar housing preferences?</p>
<p>How do you contact a potential roommate without committing to him/her???
I’m so confused about that process.</p>
<p>Pharm, add them as a roommate and then you can send messages to them. Clicking add doesn’t lock them in as your roommate.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info madbean.</p>
<p>I think you have to request them before there’s an option to send them a message. So find someone who seems likable and interact with them a bit. You can always go back later and cancel the request. Be aware of the May 1st deadline though. Good luck!</p>
<p>My son had success last year finding roommates on a facebook site for USC admits. Much more info and then pm’ed them and maybe got on the phone. But he is happy with the results.</p>
<p>raddad’s son’s method is great. To give a different take, my son’s method was a extremely… laid back? He kinda let the USC housing computer make the decision and it turned out he got the perfect roommate. Completely different major, background, geographic area, high school lifestyle, everything. Great, great guy. Really fun and their living/studying/hanging styles are compatible. So, soph year they decided to share an apartment. Again, a wonderful year. They are very independent, different majors mean diff friends groups, but all get along. </p>
<p>Sometimes things don’t work out this well, but it happens a lot. We know another great guy (spring admit) who was matched with a guy who is terrific (another spring) and they went on to share apts the next two years. </p>
<p>At USC, freshman year is the easiest because everyone is in the dorms. It’s a surprise when all of a sudden in Fresh year you have to commit to housing for soph. If you have close friends with the same housing goals & budgets, it’s not too hard. But it’s a challenge to others. raddad, is your son rooming with the same guy next year?</p>
<p>Older sons went to other universities and had bad fits for freshman roommates (and so did I), so we had encouraged him to be more proactive. He ended up in a Birnkrant triple with 2 guys he likes a lot. He is living in a house with a bunch of other musicians next year, but if that were not the case he would gladly have roomed with these guys again.</p>