There are so many ways to go about picking your roommates, but I will advise do not try and find people until after you get accepted. The reason is that if you find a person and you get accepted but they don't this could put a damper on things. Yes, its great to make friends while applying, but try and not find roommates until later in the process.
Finding roommates
- Fill out a Roommate Survey
- Join groups for your arrival date as this will condense the amount of people in the Facebook group.
- Blog or even vlog about your choice of roommates
Picking roommates or going random can go both ways as being a bad or good choice. Its really up to you, but sometimes its worth to take the risk. For me when I went random, I had roommates that were drunks and I didn't like living with them. However, when I extended I did find roommates on Facebook and it was great with two random roommates who joined the apartment later on.
DORMS
About 20 days before your arrive you will be giving your housing paperwork. Once in Dorms you will provided your housing preferences, roommates, and sign some documents.
Now keep in mind, you may not be able to link with all of your roommates you would like. If you want 4 bedroom apartment you may only be able to link up to 3 other roommates and not 7. A lot of factors is involved in this. One being is how many units they have available or if you have a later arrival date. They don't have a lot of space if you arrive at a much further arrival date.
If you are linking with roommates, you will be sent a number, but one person will have to take charge of the whole group and gather up your other roommates numbers and enter them. Once there are entered they will then go in and confirm everything as well adding in their personal information and signing documents.
If you go random you don't have to worry about gathering other roommates information as you will just go in and do it your self by selecting I'm Adventurous.
