<p>Being offered a housing contract is not the same as getting your choice of dorms. It seems as though once all the WI residents who apply by March 15 are assured a place in the dorms the others get contracts; then the computerized matching occurs regardless of in/out of state staus- since 1/3 of students wanted Liz Waters and there are OOS students there the match must not care where you’re from. Smith also got 1/3 of the first choices (info from SOAR session) and is part of Res Halls.</p>