<p>I know this is probably getting old by now, but I didn't feel like I should hijack someone else's thread.</p>
<p>The question: how do you think the new rule about 30-point senior groups picking into EC Exclusion suites before lower-point groups will affect housing this year? I wouldn't ask if this were something I could get from data, but I can't figure out what preferences seniors would have. If a 5-person senior group had a bad lottery number (below 2000, say), do you think they would pick into the ECX suite? Or is there some other more attractive option they would go for first?</p>
<p>Obviously I don't expect a concrete answer, but I would love to hear some theories on this.</p>
<p>((And yes, the reason I'm not just waiting to see how things turn out is that I got a terrible lottery number))</p>
<p>I don’t think it’ll change the numbers all that much to be honest. This is likely very innacurate but from what I’ve seen a lot of seniors want comfortable singles. Not all of them want EC. With so much time being spent on semester-internships and the competitive work market waiting out there a lot of seniors, though social, really want a space to their own away from the party they’ve been raging for the past 3 years.</p>
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<p>DON’T you dare use those words so flimsily. You don’t know ‘terrible’. You just don’t know…</p>
<p>if it were me i wouldn’t want to live in a 170sq ft double my senior year and i’m sure same goes for the majority of seniors. did u count the number of 5 person groups? my year there were fewer groups than there were suites (before this new rule obviously). i highly doubt the new rule will make a difference at all and would be shocked if ONE group chose an ECX suite</p>
<p>^I actually did count, there are about 43 ECx groups ahead of us, and 28 5-person senior groups (which if you subtract from the number of actually desirable 5-person suites for seniors, leaves 10 that are potentially threatening). If you’re right, that’s good news. :)</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity, what do senior groups typically do if they don’t make it into the place they want? Go for a row of singles somewhere?</p>