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Housing & Residence Life gives considerable time and thought to matching roommates. All new resident students should carefully complete the online roommate placement form. A link to this form will be made available on http://www.furman.edu/newatfu/ on May 19, 2009. It is no longer necessary to try and quickly submit this form.

The information provided can be useful beyond your first semester at Furman. Therefore, even if you are requesting a particular person as a roommate, you should still complete the form and submit it to the Housing & Residence Life office. All mutual roommate requests that are received by the deadlines are honored. Final decisions on other roommate matching are made by Housing & Residence Life. The deadline for returning the form is June 5 for both Early Decision applicants and Regular Decision applicants. Any Regular Decision applicant who receives their letter from Admissions after the June 5 deadline should complete and submit the online form immediately. Before you complete the form, you may want to check out the different residence hall descriptions. Please note that priority is given to residence hall requests based on a random computer-generated lottery number assigned to your roommate placement form. Priority is no longer given based on the order the submissions are received.

Most residence hall rooms are designed for two students. Occasionally, when student requests for housing exceed available space, double rooms originally designed as triple rooms will be used to meet the need by assigning three students per room. The students with the highest random computer-generated lottery numbers assigned to their roommate placement forms will be the students assigned to these triple rooms. A limited number of single rooms are available for new students. Students who require special housing accomodations due to a diagnosed disability must follow the proper procedures outlined by Disability Services.

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