Roommate Matching

Newman Hall Roommate Matching helps you build a roommate lifestyle preference profile, meet other Newman Hall residents, and find a roommate match.

• March 24: Roommate & Lifestyle Profiles Open
• April 10: Roommate Matching Begins
• May 16: Deadline to Submit Roommate Groups
• June 8: Room & Roommate Assignments Announced

beginning March 24
 

• Login to your Newman Hall resident contracting account at https://bit.ly/NewmanHallResidentAccount
• Complete your profile and lifestyle questionnaire.
  • Share your preferences on the lifestyle attributes you find most important to your daily living.
  • The more items you rate and the more accurate rankings you provide, the better calibrated your potential or recommended roommate matches will be.

Build Your Profile

April 10 through May 16

• Chat with residents who are recommended as possible roommate matches or with other residents in the same room style that you are contracted for.
  • View suggested matches generated based on your answers to your lifestyle questionnaire
  • Or, choose key lifestyle characteristics that are most important to you and filter based on responses to those specific questions
  • Or, search for a specific person you already know or have matched with elsewhere
• After you've identified a roommate match, send your roommate match request via the resident portal. 
  • Roommates must mutually request one another for the match to be confirmed.
  • You'll be able to request matches with up to as many other residents as your room style will accommodate (e.g., 1 other for south double rooms, 3 others for north suites, etc.)
    • For residents in north double suite-style rooms, we recommend placing the highest priority on lifestyle alignment with the person you will be sharing a room with and the next highest priority on suitemates who will be sharing your suite, but not your bedroom.
    • If you do not identify all possible roommate matches to fill your room, additional roommates will be assigned by the Newman Hall Housing Office.
    • If you do not identify any roommate matches, you will be assigned to a room in the room style for which you contracted.
  • Requests for roommate matches with a resident contracted for a different style of room than yours will not be able to be accommodated due to the differing contracted room styles.
  • We will work to accommodate all mutual roommate requests. However, because some bed spaces have already been assigned through our Returning Resident Priority Contracting process, there is a possibility that we may be unable to accommodate all roommate requests due to space inventory. We will work directly with you should your roommate requests require alteration.
• If you don't identify a roommate match, the system will pair you with an available roommate using your answers to your lifestyle questions to the best of its ability.
  • If you do not activate your resident profile or complete and submit a lifestyle preference questionnaire, you will be matched with a roommate from the unactivated/incomplete profile pool. The system will lack any information from your or from your potential roommate to pair you based on preferences or lifestyle and so your roommate match will be randomly assigned.

Make a Roommate Match

Week of June 8

• Once your mutual roommate match is received, we will begin assigning your specific room. Specific room assignments and roommate confirmations will be sent the week of June 8.
  • A link with your room and roommate information along with a 360 view of your specific room space will be sent during roommate assignments.