Hello everyone,
I was wondering if housing for freshmen at WashU is done randomly, or by how soon you submit your preferences
Thanks!!
It’s done by computer. You should have received in your acceptance packet a housing form. It basically asks what your preferences are such as do you want a modern room which has private bathrooms, traditional dorm which has common bathrooms, single, double, etc. Then it will ask what kind of person are you? Night person, messy, neat, etc. the computer randomly matches you up with a similar person. You can request for a specific roommate if you’d like.
The dorm selection is done at the same time for the freshmen so there isn’t any first come first serve.
@newjersey17 Is there a specific building that freshman live in?
@NickDS There are quite a few dorms for freshmen and they may place you at other dorms too. It just depends on the available space. They try to put you in a sister dorm (i.e. park/mudd) where they are similar dorms but one of them is for freshmen and the other is for upper class. You basically have first choice getting into the sister dorm your sophomore year. However, you don’t have to choose that dorm. You can pick any dorm. Its all done by lottery after freshman year.