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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those parents of seniors who will be going to a school where incoming first-year students can choose between finding their own roommate or “going random” (ie letting the college match them), which is your student doing?

For parents whose children have had this choice already, what would you recommend?

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Don’t room with a friend— or at least not a friend you want to keep.

School match is a good way to go, especially if they score off a lifestyle type questionnaire. How kids feel about quiet hours, friends sleeping over, neatness, sleep schedules, etc is going to matter a lot more in a small room than being BFFs.  My DD ended up in a not great situation with a roommate she chose freshman year— the girls Bf was stalking her.  Her parents told her not to tell the school because it would go on her permanent record (WTAF?), then he started stalking DD to get to the roommate and the roommate was pressuring DD to keep it quiet and was massively pissed when DD reported. Just a mess. Ended up with a random roommate the next year and it was great.  I do hear a lot of stories about choosing roommates going badly, and random working well (although it can go badly). Random where both parties go in with the intention of being a decent, respectful human and cohabitating peacefully, but don’t expect their roommate to become their best college friend seem to do especially well.

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