Questions About Housing

pwoods
Sat, 30 Mar 2013 08:56:51 +0000

So the way freshman housing works is that everyone is that everyone fills out an ordered list of preferences. Then Housing assigns everyone an internal lottery number. Whoever gets 1 gets their first choice, then 2 gets their first choice, and so on until you reach someone whose first choice is already sold out, so to speak. Then they get their second choice, and it moves onto the next person.

As a result, the vast majority of people will get their first or second choice. But those unlucky people who get the highest lottery numbers will end up in their last choice, since everything else will already be taken. Make sense?