Which colleges do random roommate selection?

[Anonymous]

S/o from the other thread. Could any parents of current students or incoming freshman list colleges that assign students to roommates?

[Anonymous]

Both SLACs my kids attended.

[Anonymous]

Most of them will assign a roommate if the student doesn't pick one.

[Anonymous]

yale. can't pick, can only be assigned.

[Anonymous]

Wake forest

[Anonymous]

Davidson. School assigns based on an interesting questionnaire and MBTI. It’s a big part of campus culture, in a good way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:yale. can't pick, can only be assigned.

Same with Brown

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Both SLACs my kids attended.

Could you share the names of these schools? My DD is considering a variety of SLACs next year and not all of them make this info especially clear on public-facing parts of their websites.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:yale. can't pick, can only be assigned.

Yale alum and happy to hear that’s still the case. Still friends with my random roommate 30 years later.

[Anonymous]

Rice and Swat.

[Anonymous]

SLACs tend to require it and the other schools will do it if kids don't have a roommate.

[Anonymous]

Brown as already stated, other kid allows. I prefer it be mandatory random.

[Anonymous]

Tufts

[Anonymous]

Don't most colleges at least make it an option?

DS is at VT and you can find a roommate via social media but if not, you fill out a roommate profile. When it's your time to pick a room, you can either pick an empty bed in a room and a future student can see your profile and choose the other bed. Or you can look at profiles of people in a room with an available bed and choose one of them. DS decided the easiest thing would be to pick the empty room. Ended up with a good roommate. They were friendly and compatible enough for that year but didn't keep in touch after that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't most colleges at least make it an option?

DS is at VT and you can find a roommate via social media but if not, you fill out a roommate profile. When it's your time to pick a room, you can either pick an empty bed in a room and a future student can see your profile and choose the other bed. Or you can look at profiles of people in a room with an available bed and choose one of them. DS decided the easiest thing would be to pick the empty room. Ended up with a good roommate. They were friendly and compatible enough for that year but didn't keep in touch after that.

OP and I should have specified that I’m looking for “mandatory random” as PP above called it. I think that “optional random” is more of a good option for boys than girls, unfortunately.