<p>I want to live in a double in Unit 3. I want to live in the Casa Mora theme. If I write a good essay, what are my chances of getting in? How often do applicants get their first choice? In a co-ed floor, can they assign you a girl as a roommate(I'm a guy)?</p>
<p>Housing is handed out to incoming freshmen strictly by random lottery drawing that gives you a virtual place in a long virtual queue (line) selecting rooms. You have filled out an application with your room type choices in priority order (e.g. double in Unit 3, then triple in unit 3, then double in unit 1, ending with a ‘whatever is left’ for the case that none of your choices is available when you finally get to the head of the virtual line. </p>
<p>The first student in the line, who pulled the “number 1” ticket from the lottery, will get their first choice type of room. At some point, the first choice of room is already filled when a student reaches the virtual room assignment counter. The system then looks at your second choice and if it is available, that is assigned. If not, it shifts to the third choice and looks for inventory of available rooms. Those with really early positions in the ‘line’, who were lucky in the random lottery, tend to get their first choice, students whose number puts them in the middle may get their second (or even third) choice, students who pull a really bad position near the end may get a room unlike any of their choices. </p>
<p>On a co-ed floor, the rooms are all same-sex. One room might be a double with two males, the next room may be a triple with three females, then a triple with three males . . </p>
<p>On the monosex floors, all the rooms are same-sex and either all males or all females on the floor. Then there are the monosex units - Bowles and Stern - where every room in the building is male or female, respectively. </p>
<p>You will be assigned a student of the same sex and they will take into account the short questionnaire you fill out sometime before arriving on campus, to try to line up students with similar attitudes on preferences like early versus late rising. </p>
<p>If you requested a double in unit 3 as your top choice, and a space was available for a male in a unit 3 double, you are on the list of unit 3 double students. Housing staff then look at the questionnaires and try to place students in specific rooms based on those factors.</p>