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<p>Some do, from what I’ve read of other applicants (our son applied to MIT and only MIT for graduate school, feeling if he didn’t get in the first time, he would ask what he needed to do to be an attractive candidate for them and try again the next year).</p>
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<p>And we did insist our son have NO roommate, but just suitemates (so he shares a bath, but not a bedroom; in his apartment next month, he’ll share a bath and a living room and a kitchen, but again, not a bedroom). MIT completely agreed that this would make sense, and while his dorm normally had no singles for new graduate students (only students with seniority points were eligible for them), the Dean of Graduate Students signed some exception (usually used for people with religious beliefs that don’t allow them to room with others or serious allergies or whatever) so our son would get a single rather than sharing a bedroom with an older student. We also insisted he be in a single sex suite, which they again had no issue with granting. Now in his new apartment, a female asked to be one of his roommates and we were almost game to allow it at this age, but were happy when a closer friend asked to be the third roommate (as two of them decided from the get go to share a 3BR suite and were just wondering who would be the third person) and was another male (and another male also asked to be our son’s suitemate after that, the other one who has been a suitemate for the past two years, but he simply asked too late).</p>
<p>Again, accommodations for special situations can be made.</p>