How are roommates assigned?
The Residence Life staff matches roommates based upon personal lifestyle preferences that the student provides on the housing preference form, which students receive in their admissions acceptance packet. If students request to be roomed together, the staff will make every effort to accommodate them.
If you know someone of the same sex who is attending JCAMP, regardless of what school the student is from, you can request that person as your roommate on your registration form. If you don’t request a roommate, or if the person you requested doesn’t reciprocate, you will have a roommate assigned to you, with preferences given to pairs who are in the same track and/or are in the same grade level.
Students may request roommates; both parties must identify each other on the application request. If there is no request, roommates are matched to other students with similar roommate and room preferences, whenever possible. Graduate students can request to be on a program floor with students in the same concentration.
Roommates are automatically assigned by computer according to age and gender. Your child may request a specific roommate as long as the roommate also requests your child and is (approximately) the same age. (You may want to contact your desired roommates’ parents in advance to be sure they agree with the assignment.
Most new students are randomly assigned roommates based upon a few criteria. It is very important that the student completes his or her own housing application that will assist us in assigning his/her roommate. Habits such as smoking, sleeping, studying, and housekeeping are the criteria on the housing application that we take into account when matching roommates. Even when these criteria are considered, a new resident may find that his/her roommate is from another country or speaks another language. The roommate may be of a different race, have a different lifestyle, or practice a different religion. Roommates may differ from eachother in any number of ways. Learning to live together successfully is an important part of the educational experience at Millikin. Room changes will not be made based upon difference in race, lifestyle, religion, ability, or creed.
