<p>Housing is guaranteed for your freshman, sophomore, and senior years. Junior year a lot of kids go abroad or live off-campus. Lots of people who get good lottery numbers junior year even choose to live off-campus, which means that those that didnt’get good lottery numbers often get to live on-campus.</p>
<p>The reason there was this whole over-tripling this year is because every school’s admissions committee needs to do a little guesswork when sending out offers of admission. We’ll accept X and hope to get a class of Y (at Tufts, usually 1,200). What happened this year (and with the class of 2009, too) is that the adcom underestimated X and ended up with a class of over 1,300 kids. As a result, for both the class of 2009 and 2011, zero people got off the waitlist.</p>
<p>Now that this has happened twice in three years, I am betting the acceptance rate will go down for the class of 2012 so that X is closer to Y. </p>
<p>I was actually rather surprised Tufts didn’t learn their lesson with the class of 2009… because from what I’ve read/heard, overenrollment for this year’s class was significantly worse. I don’t see why they don’t just lower X and go to the waitlist, if necessary. Tufts’ yield is only going to get better and better what with Tufts’ increased recognition across the country/globe – which means that the risk for overenrollment is greater, and the gravity of it as well.</p>
<p>OK, ALL THAT BEING SAID 
, triples aren’t that bad – you might make one more friend than you would have otherwise. And you’ll be spending more time outside of your room than you think – Tisch Library could become your home… and not to mention that social life you’ll cater to…</p>