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interesteddad
Fri, 20 May 2005 11:31:45 +0000

No. She doesn’t expect to hear about a room until after freshmen room assignments are made and there is a final tally on students leaving school, going abroad, living off-campus, etc. Between reserved rooms and lottery picks, more rooms are “taken” than will be actually used. But, it will be into the summer before that is all sorted out. They don’t even know the final size of the incoming class yet.

She’s patient. She went into the room draw hoping that she would fail to get a room and get placed on the waiting list. The extra reserved rooms are better than what would have been available at the tail end of the room draw. By participating in the lottery and being placed on the “involuntary” waitlist, she is guaranteed housing. Her preference is to be in one of the “large” on-campus dorms (Willets, Mertz, Wharton, Alice Paul, Dana/Hollowell, Parish). Odds are strong that she’ll end up in one of these from the waiting list, when none of them were available at the tail end of the lottery picks.