<p>It’s not like the freshmen housing process. Housing is done by lottery and you have greater choice in where to live. You have a few options.</p>
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<li><p>Roger’s House: a small, old building of four floors that seems to house about twenty people at max. This house is designated for healthy living, so people grow plants/herbs, cook a lot, have people come in, etc. This is the cheapest option, esp. because you don’t need a meal plan. </p></li>
<li><p>McCoy group housing: essentially get a group of friends together and take on a whole floor so everyone lives together.</p></li>
<li><p>McCoy housing. McCoy is just like Wolman, but there’s no division between West v. East. Single or double rooms, people live in a suite.</p></li>
<li><p>Charles Commons: newest housing building. One single room per person. People live in two or four person suites. There may be efficiencies? I don’t know.</p></li>
<li><p>Homewood/Bradford: apartments that offer a no meal plan option. Single room per person. I think there’s a one person, two person, three person, and four person suite.</p></li>
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<p>Housing is done by lottery. You enter in a group or enter by yourself into the lottery, and your group or your lone self gets a number. There is a day where you are told to go to the AMRs to pick your room. Whoever has the lowest number picks a room first, and you just wait to be called and hope for the best. If you need to break up your group at that time, you can do so.</p>
<p>People who are interested in #1 and #2 are first in the housing process. I think they figured out housing in February/March. So if you’re interested in Roger’s House, you enter in a lottery for that house, which is separate from the lottery for McCoy group housing. The McCoy group housing and the Roger’s House housing lotteries are separate but occur at the same time. </p>
<p>Next is the vacation housing lottery in early April. If you’re interested in vacation housing (McCoy or Charles Commons), you enter in the same lottery. On the day you have to pick your room, you can show up and pick a place or not show up and forfeit vacation housing. Basically all the Charles Commons rooms go first, and then McCoy.</p>
<p>Last are all the other options: Bradford/Homewood, CC, and McCoy. People who get good, low numbers tend to pick either CC (which is newer) or Bradford/Homewood (apartments without a meal plan). People with higher numbers often have no choice and get stuck with McCoy (singles, then doubles for the unfortunate).</p>