<p>Me and 3 friends want to live together in West Village next year. When do we get to select where we want to live and who we want to live with? How does the housing lottery work when you have a 4 person group? How likely is it that we will get a room in WV?</p>
<p>Depends on your lottery number, year, and some other factors. I lived in C last year and thought I could get into A with my roommate but we both got pretty bad numbers and ended up having to beg to get into F. 4 People will raise your lottery number but 4 people rooms are so popular, they they get filled up pretty quickly. You should be getting an E-Mail soon about the selection process too.</p>
<p>I think it’s pretty unlikely. Granted, things have changed since I selected sophomore housing, but I didn’t know anyone who got into WV as a sophomore, everyone with decent lottery ended up in Dav or Willis. My set of 4 (like redsox said, a popular number) didn’t even get to choose, we had to fill in requests and were placed into Loftman half way through the summer. Loftman turned out to be a pretty cool place to live, but we definitely didn’t choose it.</p>
<p>I guess with IV, there’s a lot more space on campus, but usually sophomores get kind of screwed with lottery numbers.</p>
<p>Is it uncommon for a sophomore to get a single? I lucked out this year and got a single, so I was wondering if for sophomore year you could actually choose a single and “definitely” get it.</p>
<p>haha picking housing at the end of freshman year was miserable…I lived in WVF and had all of these high hopes of where to go from there…then I realized that like Emily said, sophomores get screwed. I lived in the honors floor of WVC which was ok but unless you plan on living with a middler with a good lottery number, a 4 person in WV or a single are both stretches. My roommate got a good number when we were freshmen and thats how we got into WVC. Most people will end up in Dav.</p>
<p>Sophomores RARELY get singles. I had the 17th lottery number for all second year students, and there were only a few singles left when I signed up for housing. I got WVF.</p>
<p>what exactly is a good lottery number for sophomores? what’s the number range?</p>
<p>(well, freshman, future sophomores)</p>
<p>Well I got 4933, and I don’t think that’s very good. What’d you get?</p>
<p>And I thought housing was by status, not year… but I guess not? I’m a first year with sophomore status but freshman status first-years have gotten better numbers.</p>
<p>Is 4051 a good lottery number for sophomore housing?</p>
<p>I’m in my first year here, but I came in with 33 transfer credits from college courses that I took during high school. I have 49 credits including the first semester. My number is 4090. I was expecting to be counted as a current sophomore, so I thought I would get a better lottery number. I guess not…</p>
<p>4051 isn’t terrible. It could be much much worse. As of last year (I’m not entirely sure what it is this year), sophomore housing started at 3500 and goes to past 6000. After a certain number (somewhere between 4000 and 4500, I believe) you can no longer pick housing and you have to fill out a preference form instead.</p>
<p>They pick your year based on the Registrar. Since they know a lot of students come in with credit, they have funky ways of deciding who is in what year-- it isn’t just by credit. That way a freshman can’t sign up for sophomore+ only classes. But for course registration and later on it is all by credit. Plus the Registrar doesn’t have a “middler” status-- only the four years.</p>
<p>I came in with 32 credits from AP courses in high school + 18 credits from last semester so I’ve got 50 credits total now. I’m super jealous of you guys that got close to 4000… I can’t believe that I’m at around 5000… this is so frustrating :(</p>
<p>But thanks for explaining neuchimie :)</p>
<p>mine’s 5087 so does that mean i cant pick?</p>
<p>5087 means they’ll pretend you can pick, but everything will be full and you’ll turn in preference forms, and will then be placed during the summer. Welcome to Rubenstein, my friend. </p>
<p>Yeah, sophomores always get screwed in housing lottery. In the end it will work out and living in less popular dorms isn’t the end of the world. If you wind up somewhere really awful you can try to switch in the fall, or you’ll just learn to deal with it for 8 months.</p>
<p>Rubenstein,well that sucks. I guess i will see what i get and hopefully move. Maybe a miracle will happen (not saying it will) and i get the one i want</p>
<p>Could someone break this down for me?</p>
<p>If my roommate want to live together again, let’s say anywhere, do we have a good shot at that?
Ideally, we want to live with us together in a room and a third girl somewhere in the suite in WVF. Are we guaranteed honors housing? Is that definitely SOMEWHERE in West Village, if F gets filled? And I have the lowest number of the three of us (4933).</p>
<p>Things might be different for honors housing… seems like they might have spots reserved, but one of the posters who is in honors will know better than me.</p>
<p>You’ll be able to stay with your roommates though. I think they really try to place you with your roommates. Preference forms have you fill out what’s most important (building choice, price choice, roommate choice, etc) and they usually can find something that fits what you want.</p>
<p>There are a few less popular dorms that are actually pretty nice… we were placed into loftman and we all ended up loving it. Plus it costs way, way less than WV/enhanced dorms.</p>
<p>^Thanks for the response, Emily!</p>
<p>Do you know when all this goes down anyways? When do people start actually choosing?</p>
<p>mid-Feb to end of Feb</p>
<p>As for WVF, you are not guaranteed honors housing. However since a lot of people after freshman year don’t want to live in honors housing (because they want to live with at least one non-honors friend), WVF was pretty open this year. This semester they, at least for now, have decided to only fill the empty rooms with honors instead of filling them with ANYONE just cause they can’t find honors-- which means nearly every suite in the building is missing at least one person. </p>
<p>Since you have a high lottery number, you won’t be able to “select” your housing, you will be placed (as Emily said). I don’t know about housing in general, but I know a lot of people in WVF this year who put down 3 roommates they wanted and got one of them, and the other two room together in a different suite. The chances of getting the third person into your suite are slim, because they always favor people that are grouped together already to make it easier.</p>
<p>And Emily is right. One of my friends got put in Columbus and she was really upset that it wasn’t West Village, and now she adores it.</p>