How do colleges select roommates? At UT Austin, students fill out an online form of preferences. Davidson College goes beyond the call of duty, using a Myers-Briggs personality type test and family backgrounds, in addition to the usual preferences. My first year at college, we discovered that the incoming students in our dorm had been assigned to rooms alphabetically. We were in perfect alphabetical order within the dorm (not within the entire incoming class though). Our theory was that since we were in the “co-ed” dorm (Wellesley, a women’s college, had male students living on campus through the college exchange program), and we had all checked off the “I don’t mind living in a dorm with male students” question on the roommate form, we had been quickly lumped together and roomed alphabetically. It wasn’t any better or worse than other rooming systems. (via LTSeek)