As an admitted member of the class of 2020, I have begun my roommate search for this upcoming school year, and in that process recently signed up for a nationwide roommate website that matches people based on them going to the same school and a survey. I filled out the survey, marking the sexuality section “bi-curious” because I don’t really know what’s going on with myself, and was immediately disturbed by my results. Almost every single straight guy in the BU section on the website had being non-straight listed as a deal killer for a potential roommate. I don’t know if this is indicative of a campus-wide trend, or just a self-selection thing for the people on this website, but it did worry me. Can any current or former students weigh in on this? Should I be worried about the general campus atmosphere? I don’t really know if this is the right place to ask this question, but this is the only college forum that I’ve seen be extremely active.
Eh, it might just be the selection bias of others who have signed up for that website. This is pure anecdata, but when I was at BU, about 80% of the guys I knew were either gay or ended up coming out by the time we were 25. I know gay and bi are different things, but meaning: LOTS of LGBTQ guys at BU, whether they know it as freshman or not. (at least two of the guys who are now gay were ADAMANT during UG that they weren’t, and one even slept with my roommate! Now he has a husband XD)
You’re probably better off letting BU randomly assign you a roommate, IMO. It sounds like the demographic on that site are the small percentage of BU guys who are narrow-minded d-bags. (though, FWIW, I think a lot heteronormative 17-year-old guys act aggressively “straight” because they think they have to be; that bravado may change once they’re out in the world for a while)