Question 1: Date; students are housed on a first-come, first-serve basis. We do our best to match you accordingly with a roommate based on your responses and with what we offer. Note: We will not be able to match ALL of your requests.
Question 2: Gender; we must clarify what gender you are. We do not house males and females in the same room. Your gender information must be correct before taking the survey.
Question 3: Transfer Credits; This question pulls up any credit information you may have transferred in. Upper level students with 60 or more credits are placed in our Upper Level building—Davis Hall.
Question 4: Co-ed or single gender;. If you are late to sign-up for housing and we can not accommodate a co-ed request, you will be placed in single gender housing.
Single gender = men and women live under the same roof, but occupy separate wings and have separate single bathrooms as well.
Co-ed = houses both males and females within the same building. Floors, corridors and/or lounge areas generally separate the rooms. Bathroom facilities are single-sex.
Question 5: Vacation Housing; we try to accommodate the needs of our students who will need housing when the college is closed. Our vacation housing residence halls is Porter Hall. Vacation housing is for anyone who requests it, but most commonly International students, Independent students, Athletes, SUNY Cobleskill farm employees, Early Arrival and Athletic Dept. employees. If you are late signing up for housing and we can not accommodate your vacation housing request, you will be placed in another residence hall, most likely without vacation housing accommodations. There is a fee to stay in the residence halls when the college is closed, and there is limited space available for break housing.
Question 6: Themed Housing; we have seven themed housing environments available for freshmen. The themes for selection are Wellness, Sustainability, Quiet Study, StrengthsQuest, Leadership, Service Learning, and Diversity. Occupancy minimum must be met and the limited space will be filled on a first come, first served basis. It will ask you to indicate two of the seven preferences, if any, you would like to request.
Question 7: Smoking; ALL residence halls are smoke-free, HOWEVER, our students are not. Some people are allergic or can not tolerate smoke and we do not want to match a smoker with a non-smoker.
Question 8: Major; we must clarify your major to match your request to have the same major roommate. This also clarifies for you what your major is according to our records.
Question 9: Same Major/Academic School Roommate; this is a Yes or No question and is a required field.
Question 10: Study Hours; we want to try to match how many hours you will spend studying in your room.
Question 11: Guests/visitors; we want to try to match your social level. Do you have people (friends, boyfriend/girlfriend) coming to visit a lot? Are you a social butterfly, easily meeting people, always having people over? Are you a quiet person wanting to be with another quiet person? Are you a quiet person wanting to have a social roommate? We know that this varies for everyone.
Question 12: Tidiness; we want to try to match your cleanliness level with another who has similar patterns. It is important that you be honest in how neat you are.
Question 13: Hours; we want to try to match your sleep hours with someone who has similar preferences. Please answer this question as accurately as you can. Late - to go to bed = after midnight and to get up = after 10am; Early - to go to bed = before midnight and to get up = before midnight. We know that times vary for everyone.
Question 14: Single, Double or Triple; the earlier you fill out your survey, the less likely that you will be tripled. If you indicate that you can live in a triple, you will be tripled. We do have a de-triple process. We offer three room styles for freshmen: single occupancy rooms, double occupancy rooms, and the triple occupancy rooms. Anyone can be tripled. Indicating your preference on the survey doesn’t guarantee that you will be assigned that type of room.
Question 15: Roommate Request; you MUST enter the person's Unique Survey ID (USI). Do NOT give out your student ID # (Starts with 800). If you give your USI to more than one person, and more than one person requests you, you are likely to be tripled. Roommate Requests MUST be of the same gender. Once the USI is inserted please hit the 'REFRESH PAGE' button to insure that your requested roommate's name shows next to the ID box. Both roommates should have the same requests. If there is no roommate request to match yours you will be assigned a roommate based on your answers to the survey.
