<p>(I posted this first in Parent thread)I'm asking this as a parent only because my son is leaving the continent tomorrow and won't be back until the lottery closes. We had a death in the family just before high school graduation, and he's had daily 5-8 hour music rehearsals for the mandatory tour he's going on. I preface with all this because normally he would take care of all this, but there's no time.</p>
<p>We'll have to enter his data into the housing lottery--does it ask for any information besides dorm rankings? Since it's not open yet, I can't see what else might be there. I want to know before he leaves so I won't be unprepared.</p>
<p>So I gathered that there is a short questionnaire with the dorm ranking? My son may be able to access the lottery on his trip–just hard to know until he gets there. I want him to give me all the info before he leaves so I won’t have to guess.</p>
<p>It’s been a long time since I’ve done the lottery, so I don’t have any specific advice (actually, I think in my day, the housing lottery preferences were actually done on paper! :)), but you should probably make sure your computer has the proper [url=<a href=“http://ist.mit.edu/services/certificates]certificates[/url”>http://ist.mit.edu/services/certificates]certificates[/url</a>], and you should know your son’s Athena username and password. I don’t know for certain that this lottery requires that information, but many MIT lotteries do.</p>
<p>i’m also an incoming freshman so i don’t know for sure, but there is a hard copy of the application included in the booklet your son got about the dorms. it’s in the very back and can be detached… i guess it’s for people who prefer to do this on paper.</p>
<p>He was fortunately able to do this before we left for the airport this morning (partially because he’d prepared his list for me to put in). THere were a lot of questions beyond the questionnaire in the booklet. I would have been uncomfortable answering for him. Thanks for your responses.</p>
<p>wait, is everyone supposed to be able to access the lottery at this point? because it still says ‘the housing lottery will open june 1’ for me…?</p>