<p>Hey everyone! This is directed mostly towards current PSU students or anyone who knows anything about the housing process at University Park. I will be attending PSU-UP as a Freshman in the fall.</p>
<p>1) I was wondering how the roommate selection works. If you don't have any requests for a specific person, is the process completely random? Do you take any surveys for common interests?</p>
<p>2) Would you recommend Special Living Options? Especially if the roommate is completely randomized; It would be nice to be around people with common interests. What are the pros and cons of SLOs?</p>
<p>Roommates are totally random if you dont pick one. No survey or anything. I hate it but it is what it is. I had a roommate picked out for this year but he got a scholarship that overrode his request for me and got put into the SLO associated with the scholarship, without the school notifying us until roommate day. This is rare but unfortunate.</p>
<p>You can pick your preference of 3 levels (Person, complex, and SLO) depending on which is most important to you. Housing says if two people mutually request each other and select roommate as their first preference are guaranteed to be put together barring something unfortunate like what happened with me. Although they cant guarantee that the two will be put together WHERE they want to live, could be in east or could be in your second choice.</p>