Roommate Connection

At BGSU, we cannot guarantee you will live with a specific person, but we try to increase your chances by allowing you to form a Selection Time Pair. Forming this pair is not required. In fact, around 60% of all students choose to leave it up to fate and don't form a pair. The choice is up to you.

Finding A Roommate

To increase your chance of living with a specific person, you can take the optional step of forming a Selection Time Pair. These pairs can be formed between only two students and when formed both you and your friend will receive the same selection time, making it easier to find a room together, or near each other.

Make it official!

Simply talking to someone and telling each other you want to be roommates, does NOT form a Selection Time Pair. There is no way our Housing team can know you want to be roommates unless you tell us.

Step 1 | Complete the Housing Application

First you must complete your Housing and Meal Plan Application and make your $200 initial housing payment. ou can find the application timeline and more details about the entire housing selection process on our Future Falcon Housing page.

Helpful tip: In the application, make sure you have the "Include in Roommate Search" checked.

Step 2 | Find someone to room with

Selection Time Pairs can be formed from Jan. 4 until 5 p.m. on May 1.

Create a group with someone you already know.

If you know someone that you would like to form a Selection Time Pair with, you will log into your Housing and Meal Plan Application and go to the Selection Time Pair step. By creating this pair you become the Group Leader and you will have a few steps to complete.

Search for a profile.

To see matches based on profiles, select which lifestyle questions that are most important to you when thinking of your on-campus living experience. You will only see other students who match your response to your important questions.

Browse your compatible profiles.

Your answers to the Lifestyle Questionnaire are compared against others in the database and you will be shown other incoming students who have compatible answers. The higher the score the higher the compatibility.

Step 3 | Create your Selection Time Pair

This step needs to be completed by 4:59 p.m. on May 1.

You can create your pair within your Housing Application by navigating to the Selection Time Pair section.

Step 4 | Room selection week

If you are a part of an Selection Time Pair you will get the same random date and time to log into your BGSU Housing Portal and select your room. Here are some important things to remember:

If one member of your pair is placing both themself and the other student into a room, the second member must confirm their room placement in the system before 9 a.m. on Friday, May 15.
Once you select your pair into a room, if one of you decides to select out of that room your Selection time Pair will be broken - you can only select your Selection Time Pair into a room once.

Updated: 10/15/2026 03:24PM