<p>You should have requested to room with them when submitting your orientation details which usually asks(or it did in previous years) for your preferred roommates. Other than that you probably won’t manage to get it because housing for freshmen is extremely tight and overbooked. You could try contacting Campus Res <a href=“Campus Residences | Stony Brook University”>Campus Residences | Stony Brook University;
But unless you have some sort of medical or extremely special reason they will most likely say no.
You can however in the next year(s) choose where you live with whoever.</p>
<p>On the matter with Financial Aid, you can try contacting the Fin Aid office <a href=“http://www.stonybrook.edu/finaid/contact.shtml[/url]”>http://www.stonybrook.edu/finaid/contact.shtml</a>. I have never heard of Stony matching offers however. It never hurts to call to ask, that’s why those phone numbers exist.</p>