<p>Just wondering, do we get housing priority if we respond early (aka first come first serve) before May 1st?</p>
<p>Nope. If you apply anytime before May 1st, your app will be considered with the same priority level as anyone else whose app is submitted before May 1st. If you submit your application after that deadline, then it will be considered on a space-available basis.</p>
<p>As far as I know, about 60% of the students who submit their applications before the deadline receive one of their top three choices. (I can’t remember exactly where I heard that though- probably here on CC.) A computer determines who is housed where, based mostly on a lottery system if you haven’t applied for a residential program. If you have applied for a residential program, then the coordinators of the program read the essays and choose who they want to enroll in the program. Those who don’t get into the res program(s) of their choice go into the housing lottery with everyone else.</p>
<p>If you apply for a residential program and don’t get in, I’m not sure whether that housing choice goes into the lottery as your first choice or whether you then go into the lottery with your second-choice room. For example, if you apply for a double in Fisher’s Law & Society program but aren’t chosen for the program, I’m not sure whether you go into the housing lottery with your first choice as a non-program double in Fisher or whether your first choice in the lottery then becomes your second choice room (i.e. a non-program room in King’s Court or another house). If there is someone who could speak to that, I would love to know!</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure if you don’t get into a res program (say you apply to two as your first and second choice), it starts at your third choice for the lottery. Because some places you can only get in via a res program, like Harrison, so it wouldn’t make sense to consider what you put for residential programs.</p>
<p>^ That occurred to me, too, but I wasn’t sure. Makes sense, though! Thank you so much for the response.</p>