ROOMMATE PREFERENCE FORM - Hood College

ROOMMATE PREFERENCE FORM
Last name First name Middle name
Home address City State ZIP Date of birth
Date Hood Graduation year Cell phone Email address
Summer address (if different from above)
I am a:
o New student
o Check here if you are interested in residing in a First-
Year Living-Learning Community (requires an application
which can be found at hood.edu/LLCs).
o Transfer student
o Returning student
I am:
o Male
o Female
I need:
o A non-carpeted room due to allergies, etc.
o An extra long bed (for students taller than 6’)
o Special accommodations due to health or disability needs (see
next page for documentation needed)
Note: All beds in Coblentz, Memorial, Meyran, Shriner and Smith are
extra long. Available by request elsewhere.
I prefer:
o A coed living environment
o An all-female living environment
Note: All residence halls except for Shriner are coeducational. Meyran
and Coblentz are coed by room (each room is either male or female),
Smith and Memorial are coed by floor. Language houses and Living-
Learning communities are
coed by room.
I would like to live in:
o A residence hall
Please list your top two choices:
1st
2nd
Please list the hall that would be your last choice:
Note: Students will be assigned to rooms on a space-available
basis within each residence hall. There are a limited number of
rooms reserved for new students in
each residence hall. Due to space limitations, we cannot guarantee
placement in your preferred building(s).
o A language house (requires an application which will be emailed to
you)
o An apartment (requires junior or senior standing)
I would like to live with:
Note: Roommates must request each other; non-mutual requests cannot
be honored.
Until
For each area below, check the one box that best applies to you.
Please star (*) the items that are most important to you. It is
very important that students fill the forms out themselves. The
Office of Residence Life will provide you with your roommate’s
name and contact information by mid July. We encourage you to
contact your roommate to further discuss these (and other) issues!
Smoking
(All residence halls and languages houses at Hood are smoke-free)
o I am a nonsmoker but am not bothered by a roommate who
smokes outside the room.
o I am a nonsmoker and am allergic to smoke or bothered by
a roommate who smokes outside the room.
o I am a smoker.
Overnight guests
o I am open to overnight guests in the room for my roommate
and me.
o I do not plan to have overnight guests, but am open to a
roommate having overnight guests.
o I do not plan to have overnight guests in the room and am
not open to my roommate having overnight guests.
Studying habits
o I plan to do most of my studying in the room and (circle one)
a) study in quiet b) study with music/TV.
o I plan to do most of my studying outside the room; the room
is a place where I will mostly socialize.
Sleeping habits
o I am an early-to-bed, early-to-rise kind of person.
o I stay up late and like to sleep in to compensate.
o I am flexible.
Music/TV
o I listen to music/TV all the time.
o I listen to music/TV occasionally.
o I rarely listen to music/TV.
o I don’t (circle one) a) listen to music b) watch TV c) both
o Please describe your tastes in music/TV:
Cleanliness
o I am a neat freak..
o I am not too messy, but not ultra-neat: I like things to look
“lived-in.”
o I am messy: sometimes it’s hard to see the floor.
If both roommates request each other, stop here.
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ROOMMATE PREFERENCE FORM (cont.)
In the space below, please describe yourself and the relationship you would like to have with your roommate. Be as
specific as possible as it will assist us better match you with a compatible roommate. As you write, consider the following:
Your background:
Sharing Space:
Styles:
Preferences:
• What type of schedule are you used to?
• What type of environment did you grow up in?
• What experiences have you had living/sharing space with others?
• What has that been like for you?
• Are you more introverted or extroverted?
• Are you more of a study person or social person?
• Do you prefer socializing with a few close friends or are you more of a solitary person?
• What type of relationship do you expect to have with your roommate?
• What are your goals for college?
• Do you like the room kept warmer or colder?
• Do you object to the consumption of alcohol in the room by people of age?
• How much privacy do you need?
• What is your major area of interest?
• What actions/behaviors would you find upsetting from your roommate?
Information to help in my roommate selection (utilizing questions above):
Students with special needs
Students in need of special housing accommodations due to disability and/or health conditions must complete
a “Special Housing Accommodations Request” available on the Hood website (at www.hood.edu/campus-life/
residence-life/forms-and-policies.html).
Hood College will make every reasonable accommodation for students with special housing needs. The College
reserves the right to require prescribed treatment in such situations and to make assignments based on the best
interest of the residential community and availability of space.
Hood College supports diversity and offers a residential experience with people of different backgrounds and cultures. The residence hall system
does not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, culture, ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or national origin.
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