<p>Re post 269</p>
<p>At H, everyone lives in the Yard first year. Then you enter the lottery for houses. Up to 8 students can enter the lottery together as a group. So, it is common for 8 players from the same team or 8 Crimson staffers or whatever to enter the lottery as a group. So, by the time people are assigned to a house, they are part of a mini-group within the house. If you later have a falling out with the people in the group, it can be extremely hard to convince one of the other groups to accept you as part of their group for the next year’s lottery. Different houses at H used to have very different reps–most government concentrators lived in the same house, for example–but H made a concerted effort to change this and it’s no longer the case. </p>
<p>At Y, you are assigned to a college before you begin.Legacies and sibs can choose to be in the same college as their parents/sibs. Students from 10 of the 12 colleges live on Old Campus first year. On Old Campus, they are grouped by college. TD and Silliman students live in their colleges all 4 years. It is possible to switch colleges, but few people do. It requires the approval of the new college’s master. It’s quite common for two best friends to live in different residential colleges. It’s not possible for ALL of the people in a given year who are on the same team to live in the same college.It’s common for people to live with different people different years. There are several teams which have off-campus housing where all the seniors or all of the juniors and seniors on the same team live together. </p>
<p>I think Y’s system tends to make for more cohesive colleges than H’s does. On the flip side though many people are unhappy that they can’t room with their closest friends because their friends are in a different college. </p>
<p>Princeton’s more complicated because of the bicker system for eating clubs. People who belong to certain ECs tend to both live together and join the same eating clubs. So, you tend to hang out 24/7 with people who share a certain interest with you.</p>