For my brother’s university, there was a roommate match website where he submitted info about himself (major, hobbies, interests) and he was matched with similar people. The university I plan to attend this Fall doesn’t seem to have anything like this. I’m wondering, did any of you who are currently in college meet your roommate on move-in day or did you get sent their contact info during the summer?
I want to contact my future roommates in the summer (maybe mid-July) and start a group message, so we can plan what things everyone will bring for the dorm (I’m an OOS student and I really don’t want to forget anything at home when I attend school this Fall)
I’m not in college, but I’ve heard from my friends who are that they got their roommate’s info in mid-July and began school in late August. They send the info to students once they pair people up. If you want the thing your brother had, there’s a ton of outside websites that do that sort of thing, and then you guys just request each other on the housing application.
I met mine the day of move-in. We found out who we were paired with before that though and communicated a little bit over email.
For freshman year, we were randomly paired and I met my roommates and suitemates on move-in day. But we knew who we were living with a couple weeks before and emailed a little bit.
Sophomore year I lived in apartments run by student housing. I requested one of my roommates, and obviously we knew each other. Our other roommate was assigned randomly and we met in person on move-in day, but it turned out I had met her at orientation and we had just lost contact. Then junior and senior year the three of us stuck together.
Thanks for the replies!
I’m glad that I’ll find out who they are in advance
My daughter had both. Her school has a matching system and she and one of her roommates met through that system, chatted a bit online via email, and accepted each other’s request. Then because they knew most freshman dorm rooms at her school were triples they worked together to try to match with a third. They selected a couple possibles and one accepted their request. Then at the very end of the summer when they got their room assignment it turned out to be a quad and a fourth girl was randomly added to their trio. It has worked out, their freshman year is almost over. My daughter will be rooming with one of the three next year, the first girl that she matched with.
@NorthernMom61 That’s good that everything went well for your daughter. To be honest, I just don’t want to be one of those people who ends up with a terrible set of roommates. All of my dorm choices would result in me having 3 other roommates.
I want to move out into an off campus apartment in sophomore year with one of my roommates, so I hope I get matched with some awesome girls
The college gave us each other’s names and we started communicating. Over the summer we coordinated color scheme, who’d bring the rug, who’d bring the sofa, etc.
My first roommate contacted me first, and was all excited and stuff, but when I actually met him he was so boring and barely responsive.
Guess people can have double personality: one for facebook and one for real life
“Guess people can have double personality: one for facebook and one for real life”
Such a true statement. I have a few friends who are funny, outgoing social butterflies on social media, but tend to be a bit vanilla in person.