<p>I’ve looked through the examples of how to do room selection, in anticipation of hopefully next week’s being able to pick a room.</p>
<p>If son enters a room that has students in it already, will he be able to view who they are, their emails, so they can email them and get to know them, or check to make sure they’re compatible in a general sense, ie, non smoking? Hoping he can use Facebook or Roommate Finder to at least see if they are somewhat of a match. If not, can he move on to another room?</p>
<p>Will people that enter his suite after him be able to contact him as well to touch base with him as far as matches?</p>
<p>Son has found some matches on the roommate finder site, but has not sent or received messages to or from anybody. As room election is only a week away, I’m wondering if he’s going to just have to pick a room and hope for the best, or at least use Facebook or Roommate Finder to avoid nonmatches.</p>
<p>When your son clicks on a particular suite that has an opening, he will be able to see the name of the others who have previously locked in their rooms. Their e-mails will also be there. He can change from room to room, building to building if he chooses. Once he locks in his proxy code, others can see his name and e-mail address.</p>
<p>He has two codes, a roommate proxy code and a room swap code. He also has an access code that he used to access roommate finder. Which code does he need to enter to “lock into a room?” I assume you mean by “lock into a room”, once he picks his choice, he enters a code and that is his choice. Oh, gosh, so nervous about doing this. And I think we can only do it at night, so there will be no one to call for help. Although I’m sure the lines will be busy all day at housing with people asking questions.</p>
<p>You do not need any code if it is just your son picking his room. Once you are in the room you want to be in, just click to reserve the space. That’s it. Later you receive a confirmation e-mail with the name of the dorm and room.</p>
<p>The proxy code is only if someone else wants to bring you into his suite.</p>
<p>Once your son has selected a space, he has that space unless he chooses a different space, swaps spaces with another student using the swap code, or housing decides to move them (very rare). You son would only need to give out his proxy code if he wanted somebody else to pull him in to another room. It is also possible to change one’s proxy code if they no longer want the other person to be able to pull them into a room.</p>
<p>When we were at Capstone Scholars Day, the woman from housing said the record last year was held by a student who switched their housing 33 times, so I don’t think you have to worry about being locked in if there’s a change of heart after next week :)</p>