<p>I like to think that there’s a healthy mix of people who go all random, pick one roommate, or pick two roommates.</p>
<p>I have a bunch of friends went with all random freshman year (boys and girls alike); I picked 1 roommate my first year and got a random second roommate. My second year I continued to live with my chosen roommate in addition to picking someone I knew (worst choice ever). My third year I will be going all random, but I’ve long since began communicating with both my future roommates through non-in-person means (although we go to the same school and live on the Hill <em>shrug</em>).</p>
<p>I understand that I’m not a freshman so I answered with information that you didn’t ask, but it does illustrate a point: other upperclassmen go random sometimes, too. If there’s an open spot in the room, then a freshman might get placed there. It’s happened before that freshmen get non-freshmen roommates. Anything can happen :P</p>