<p>Can someone explain how the lottery system works at Rutgers?</p>
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<li><p>Everyone who wants housing and is already on-campus applies for a lottery number.</p></li>
<li><p>Lottery numbers are revealed (online). Numbers range from 1 to >10,000.</p></li>
<li><p>Housing is applied for at different times periods depending on type. So, the order last year was: Suites -> Singles -> Apartments -> Doubles</p></li>
<li><p>For each application, you must have all the spaces filled. So, for suites you would need a full suite of 6 to apply; for apartments, you need 4; and for doubles you need 2 (a roommate). The best lottery number (closest to 1) will count for the entire group.</p></li>
<li><p>After each application period, the greatest number that will receive that type of housing is revealed and shortly thereafter, based on number, recipients are able to choose which one they want. (So you can choose a specific number at a specific dorm based on location that you want at that point.)</p></li>
<li><p>If you don’t get housing for one type, you will need to apply for the next one you want, but you’ll have to be pretty organized and flexible in terms of relocating roommates. If you cannot get doubles, you will be put on the waiting list and will most likely get some sort of housing, even if it is not ideal.</p></li>
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<p>If you are in Honors, you may apply to your program’s housing application/method, depending on which program you are a part of.</p>
<p>If you are off-campus, and would like to get on, you will also be placed on the waiting list.</p>
<p>What is the process for Freshman?</p>
<p>If by “freshman” you mean “incoming students”</p>
<p>No, (luckily!) they don’t have to worry about the process or anything to do with the lottery. The lottery process is for upperclassmen.</p>
<p>The incoming students fill out a housing form online indicting their campus preferences and/or any special housing. The form is usually available online by the end of February, when Rutgers have notified most, if not all, applicants about whether they were admitted or not.</p>
<p>Hope that helps!</p>
<p>So do you get 1 lottery pick and then you use it until you match housing? Or do you get a new lottery number each time you apply for a type? For ex, you apply for suites but you just miss out, so you decide to apply for a double. Do you use the same lottery number?</p>
<p>How competitive is it to get honors housing in Busch?</p>
<p>rualum: You get one lottery pick (for every year you apply for one). So you will have the same lottery number for all four housing type applications.</p>
<p>bariumchloride: SAS Honors? I’m not sure about SAS, but for engineering you will want to consider your options as freshmen going into sophomore year because there was only one suite left for the entire honors freshmen class. Most of us have ended up in another form of housing, not honors.</p>
<p>For SAS, I have seen many of my freshmen-to-sophomore friends get their desired housing in McCormick. They have a separate application before regular housing applications, but it is definitely easier to get that housing than regular housing on Busch. In addition, for SAS Honors housing, I believe all of the 6 roommates must be in SAS Honors (not even any other school’s honors program).</p>
<p>**Note: The new dorms should be completed by fall 2011, so I am not sure how those will come into play, because I don’t know if those are freshmen doubles or if they are for continuing students. Previously, the only doubles on Busch were for freshmen only, so if your lottery number wasn’t good enough for apartments or suites, you would end up on a different campus.</p>
<p>the new dorms will be 4-person suites (2 doubles share one bathroom). there are 3 buildings and it will be 60% freshmen (sas, pharmacy, and engineering) and 40% upperclassmen. this is all according to the bulletin board in my building, it might not be completely up to date lol</p>
<p>does anyone know when the application process starts?</p>
<p>According to the housing site, the application will be available from the following site at 9am on Wednesday, January 19th until January 31st: </p>
<p>[The</a> Lottery Process - My Housing - Rutgers Housing & Residence Life](<a href=“http://ruoncampus.rutgers.edu/my-housing/fall-2011-lottery-process]The”>http://ruoncampus.rutgers.edu/my-housing/fall-2011-lottery-process)</p>
<p>They don’t have the calendar up yet though, telling you the dates for the specific housing participating dates. But I think they usually post that up in February after students applied for numbers!</p>
<p>Anyone could check that website I posted above about the housing lottery process and to get a better understanding of it. If you are curious! It provides a lot of information about the whole lottery system and what steps you need to take =)</p>
<p>thanks so much mushaboom :)</p>
<p>will we receive emails and updates about the actual process, or are we expected to know about it already?</p>
<p>Did your RA hold a floor meeting for you guys yet? They are supposed to explain the process to you. If not, the housing site provides a good explanation of how the housing process works! It tells you important information about times and dates for specific housing.</p>
<p>But to give an overview:</p>
<p>(1) You fill out an application for housing/dining online for a week or two period in January so that you can receive a lottery number: [Housing</a> Lottery Application 2010-2011](<a href=“http://housing.rutgers.edu/pdfs/Lottery2010.htm]Housing”>http://housing.rutgers.edu/pdfs/Lottery2010.htm)</p>
<p>(2) A few days after the application period ends, you get a notification in your EDEN account that tells you that your lottery number is available; You sign into your account through housing.rutgers.edu to check for your number.</p>
<p>(3) You have to make note of when the application is available for a specific housing type (apartment, suite, doubles, single). This is where this calendar becomes handy (this one is from last year’s lottery; the one for this year should be available soon) <a href=“http://housing.rutgers.edu/pdfs/calendartable1011.pdf[/url]”>http://housing.rutgers.edu/pdfs/calendartable1011.pdf</a></p>
<p>(4) The day or two after the application for that specific housing ends, they post up the “winning” lottery numbers. For example:
Apartment: <a href=“http://housing.rutgers.edu/pdfs/ruoncampus/apartment_numbers.pdf[/url]”>http://housing.rutgers.edu/pdfs/ruoncampus/apartment_numbers.pdf</a>
Single housing: <a href=“http://housing.rutgers.edu/pdfs/ruoncampus/ruoncamp_singlelotterynumbers.pdf[/url]”>http://housing.rutgers.edu/pdfs/ruoncampus/ruoncamp_singlelotterynumbers.pdf</a></p>
<p>(5) Then a day or two after the numbers are posted, you go in person and choose your housing if your number is eligible.</p>
<p>If your number is NOT eligible, you will have to apply for another type of housing. This answers rualum’s question: You have ONLY ONE number for this lottery that you use for all housing types. The process for choosing housing does not overlap, that is if you applied for a single and then realized that your number was not eligible, a day or two later the application for suites becomes available for like three days so you can try your luck at that. And so on. So even if you missed out on getting a suite, you might have the chance to get an apartment. </p>
<p>Basically, after one application period for a specific housing is over, another one starts, and then another with doubles being the last type of housing for choosing.</p>
<p>Phew, that was a lot. Sorry! I hope this helps a bit, though! =)</p>
<p>According to housing (I spoke to someone on the phone recently), the new Busch dorms are for freshman only.</p>
<p>“We are writing to inform you about a new housing option for Fall 2010. A
special interest community is being developed for students in the School
of Engineering, School of Pharmacy, and the School of Arts and Sciences.
This community will be housed in the new hall being built on the Busch
campus and will focus on “Exploring Current Events through Science.” Each
year a different theme will be chosen and programs and discussions will be
centered around it. This will be a great opportunity for students to
interact with other students in science related fields and gain knowledge
and experiences that they would otherwise not have. The topic for
2010-2011 will be the Gulf Spill.”</p>
<p>Check your Rutgers email for this announcement. (btw I think they mean Fall 2011)</p>
<p>yeah i saw that! i was a little confused about the discussion part. the building has a separate little application that requires an essay…</p>
<p>It seems like a living-learning type deal. My friend in Douglass has to take women’s studies classes and go to meetings, so it sounds a lot like the requirements to live in the new Busch housing.</p>
<p>If you really need to live on Busch and/or are really interested in the Gulf Spill; it’s not a bad option.</p>
<p>i’m a little confused about the actual lottery number. do you get a better number with the more credits you have, seniority, etc; or is it literally a “lottery?”</p>
<p>It is literally a lottery to the point you can apply for a number one hour before the application deadline and you end up with #2 while the person who logged on the moment that the application was up got #10,000.</p>
<p>People have been trying to vie for changes based on seniority, but that hasn’t happened yet. The only thing close to seniority is that the incoming freshmen are guaranteed housing. Us continuing students are left in the dust to fend for ourselves if we have a terrible number. But no more hotels, thank goodness =</p>
<p>wow that’s surprising, i would’ve thought that there was some sort of structure as far as seniority goes.</p>
<p>the whole hotel thing sounded so terrible! i don’t understand why they aren’t putting up more housing on livingston or something; it’s so dead and empty there.</p>
<p>That hotel thing sucked. I knew people who had problems with the internet.</p>
<p>Actually they are putting more housing on Livingston! If you have been on Livingston recently, they have parts of that four way intersection (where the bus turns right to go towards the student center) blocked with fences for construction.</p>