<p>The reconstruction of Butler College is a major project in the University's new four-year residential college system. Slated to reopen in fall 2009, Butler College will help to accommodate the increase in the student population, housing undergraduates from all four years as well as graduate students. As a centerpiece of Princeton's new residential college system, Butler College supports the University's goals for enhanced residential life, sustainability, and state-of-the-art design. </p>
<p>In this short presentation (which includes an appeal to potential donors) the new masters and advisors for Butler College talk about the features of the residential college buildings that will open for the Class of 2013. This could be your home next year.</p>
<p>Also, can anyone tell me how exactly does room draw work? Is it completely random? If not, how would I maximize my odds of getting a room in New Butler?</p>
<p>hallowarts: after you matriculate, you'll get a bunch of housing forms to fill out--what kind of room you want, how messy you are, etc. You'll fill these out and send them back to Housing. When they assign rooms for freshmen, they'll first randomly assign you to a residential college, THEN look at your forms and assign you a room/roommates based on your preferences. So you can't influence your odds of getting into New Butler in any way at all--the college you're in is completely random.</p>
<p>As a sophomore, you'll get randomly assigned a time by lottery, and will just be able to pick a room from the ones remaining at your time. It gets more complicated as an upperclassman, but that's still the general idea.</p>
<p>Ouch! Screw it up once, get another opportunity with a clean sheet of paper, screw it up again? The last opportunity for many years to come? Double ouch.
This from a university that has made very few missteps on atmosphere and aesthetics.</p>