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we both like Tiffany blue we both really loved your rafts like it's like the randomness things st. Mary's college roommates Samantha car Niro and Samantha Richards joke that there's so much alike they're almost twins it was like a big joke because both of our names are Sam obviously the pair was more than 80% compatible according to star rez an online tool that more than 400 institutions including Ohio State and weiu and UC Berkeley used to match roommates it organized on-campus housing it works like an online dating site with a proprietary matching algorithm fill out a questionnaire find compatible matches and then check out profiles attributes might include whether they smoke watch TV one when they're studying do they like to cook schools can decide which attributes to prioritize but Saint Mary's with an undergraduate population of only three thousand students has kept the algorithms as broad as possible and focus on lifestyle choices Lynne well says star res has found that study and sleeping habits are often the two most important factors the combination of those two things can really really say a lot about how a student relationship is gonna go but star ves is just the starting point for future roommates they're able to use Facebook or social media outlets to connect with that person and kind of get to know them on a deeper level star rez says some participating schools have reported fewer rooms swap requests and roommate conflicts st. Mary's says last year 7% of first-year residents who were dissatisfied with her housing assignments requested a change st. Mary's is hoping to see a decrease in the second year of using star rez it's working for freshman Cameron Wiggins and Steven Hasbrouck they've requested to live together again their sophomore year it makes college a lot easier we're actually a hundred percent compatible one star says has a combated compatibility meter and 100 percent earning them an A and roommate matching and raw at California I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News