<p>Do colleges usually have a questionnaire to set up a best fit roommate for a student?</p>
<p>The do genome screening. They send you a kit to swab out a DNA sample from your mouth during the summer.</p>
<p>LOL</p>
<p>Yes they send out questionnaires. Some are more detailed than others and do a better job at matching. Others only look at details like “smoker/non smoker” or “late night/early riser” major areas of potential conflict.</p>
<p>What’s your concern exactly?</p>
<p>Not UC Davis. For freshmen, you just get asked whether you want a single, double, or triple, to rank the housing areas you want to live in in terms of preference (Segundo, Tercero, or Cuarto), whether you want to live on a themed floor, and I think whether you want to live on a co-ed floor or same-sex floor. For transfers, you get asked whether you want a single or a double and whether you want to live in the dorms or one of the apartments affiliated with Student Housing. No roommate questionnaires–it’s all random, unless you state a specific person you want to share your room with.</p>
<p>Many colleges have questionnaires; the extent to which they are utilized in matching roommates is anyone’s guess. If you have any specific concerns, let us know and I’m sure someone on these boards can offer advice. However, if you simply have general anxiety about your roommate, just look at it as an opportunity more than anything else. More than likely you’ll at least get along, and quite possible be good friends.</p>
<p>Some do, some don’t. My college had a separate “dating-like” website where you’d upload a basic profile of yourself and you would then be matched with people you’re most compatible with. I didn’t really utilize it & got roomed w/ a random instead.</p>
<p>I didn’t. Roommates for first years (freshmen or transfer) were random.
Sometimes it works and sometimes your roommate will pee in your dresser drawers…</p>
<p>i wish they had a genome screening type thing, why is that i’ve never liked/gotten along with any of my roommates?! like semester after semester. seriously it’s ridiculous! i mean not even one! i feel like i should have liked at least one…</p>
<p>It varies by school, I’m sure most schools do, or at least have some sort of system like that. My school has a pretty good questionnaire that you fill out if you’re going to live in any form of university housing. It takes into account your personal habits, sleeping/studying schedule, and your hobbies/interests/extracurricular activities. From what I saw in my dorm last year, it works pretty well, although you’ll get the odd case in which random roommates simply won’t get along, which is something you can try to limit but can’t really avoid.</p>