Yes! At almost every college, you should be able to request who you room with. If you don’t already know one—or know anyone you’d want to spend a whole year living with, at least—you can use your university’s roommate matching system. In some cases, colleges may decide not to give you your “chosen” roommate(s), usually … Read more
Unless you have special circumstances, there is no guarantee that you will be able to live without roommates in college. However, you can try a few techniques to increase your odds of getting a single dorm room. To try to avoid getting college roommates, you should: Why do colleges force you to have a roommate? … Read more
Yes, you can potentially switch your college roommate or dorm room. However, it is usually not easy. Schools purposefully make it hard to switch roommates. If they made it easy, it would be a logistical nightmare. Furthermore, they believe it would teach their students to run from problems rather than solve them. If you’re serious … Read more
Most colleges do not have a firm policy barring students above a certain age from living in on-campus dorms. Most schools prevent students under a certain age from living in the dorms. We surveyed dozens of college Res Life administrators, none of which reported having an upper age limit for students living in their dorms. … Read more
At most colleges, you can have between zero and three roommates in a single dorm room. However, being assigned more than one roommate for your freshman year is uncommon. While you will most likely be paired with a single roommate in your freshman year dorm room, you may have more roommates if you will be … Read more
It is only “too late” to switch (AKA transfer) colleges if it will set back your preferred graduation timeline. Generally, transferring before the end of your sophomore year will prevent you from having to push back your graduation date. Your graduation timeline will be pushed back if the minimum attendance duration at your new school … Read more
There are no hard and fast rules when it comes to how many days you can miss college classes. You will have to check with individual professors to learn about their absence policies. Colleges generally avoid having such policies because, at the college level, they expect any adverse effects related to absences to show up … Read more
Colleges can not look at your search history during the application process, but are able to look at your search history if you’re use their WiFi. With this being said, colleges almost never look at the search history of their students. Can I get rejected from a college because of my search history? No, colleges … Read more
There is no “right” amount of time to be in college, and, depending on your life goals, there is no such thing as “too long” to be in college. The “right” amount of time depends on what is right for you. Do you want to enter the job market ASAP? Or are you simply looking … Read more
27 is not too old to start college. As we’ve discussed elsewhere, at pretty much any college or university, you will be surrounded by people ranging from 18-year-olds through retirement age. When you go to college, you’ll find that the student body wasn’t nearly as uniform age-wise as it was in high school. Whether you’re … Read more