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Lottery numbers—yeah, we’ve been incessantly refreshing just like you. Log into StarRezPortal, go to “Applications,” select next year, and your lottery number is under “Registration Summary.”
So. How’s that Claremont suite looking now? Remember to look over our housing updates, info, advice, strategies, gossip and overheards and breakdowns here. Remember: it’s the 2010 Housing Lottery: Your Best Mistake Ever!
Update: All lottery numbers have been posted sorted by priority and UNI. How we envy you, jrs2171. And Godspeed, ie2139. May your future be shaftless.
Update 2: Overheard in a class with laptops out:
Professor: “I’m curious to know what was on that screen…” (after seeing a student behave irregularly)
Student: “Lottery numbers are out!”
Professor: “Housing lottery numbers… I’m sorry. No really, I’m sorry. I know that process really sucks.”
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@Anonymous that was deaton………..
http://bwog.net/2010/02/07/as-seen-on-college-walk#more-12961
@I didn't know it was possible to get anything worse than 3000. But “jj2417” got 3001… at least summer swap will be good to him.
@I didn't know it was possible correction, her.
@Anonymous There will be new bathrooms on all the Wien floors. The sink is CLUTCH. McBain is gross and has rats and vomit.
@Anonymous is it possible to get a broadway single with 20 2000?
@how many of the 6 person suites are occupied by frats or special interest communities?
@its come to this mcbain>wein?
or are they about the same?
@well it depends how important a single is to you.
I got the 2nd to last number when I was a rising soph. I chose mcbain shaft because I found wein to be depressing. dark, kitchen-less, unfriendly, long narrow asylum hallways. only a microwave on each floor. you could be on a floor without a bathroom of your gender. most of the floors in the rooms are 1970’s looking linoleum. I hated the location too… the dark isolated courtyard. pros would be the sinks, the lovely views from the higher floors, and the fact that some of the renovated bathrooms are snazzy.
mcbain is brighter and more cheerful, despite the disrepair. kitchen on every floor, happier atmosphere, either carpeted or faux-wood floors, little gym on the first floor. the shaft is loud on weekends, but honestly that’s preferable to eerie emptiness I felt when visiting friends in wein. great location, I loved living above milano.
@Anonymous does anyone know how high up in broadway/schapiro you need to be to get a nice view?
@actually reads housing info Higher “priority” averages (10-soph, 20-jun, 30-sen) go first. So 30 point groups go first, then say 26.66666, so on and so forth. Within each priority average, lower numbered lottery numbers go first (1 is best, 3000 is worst). If you’re signed up for suite selection, you all have the same lottery number. If you break up, you still have the same lotto number as everyone else in your group, BUT you get your individual priority number (so the older kids in your group aren’t completely left out in the cold).
@Pretty sure groups dropping from Suite to General get the option of keeping the hybrid point value or each taking their own. Moral of the story: underclassmen, be nice to the elders in your group.
@are you sure? i think if you drop to general, you keep the suite lottery number but not the suite priority. that’s what i got from reading the housing info anyway. bwog, care to settle this?
@confused I’m confused about the suite selection lottery number. Is this an average of all of the group’s numbers? So if we break up and go to general selection, do we receive our own individual lottery numbers? if so, how do I see my individual lottery number rather than see the suite selection lottery number.
any help would be much appreciated. thanks.
@not confused If your group breaks up, you still keep the same lottery number.
@not confused anymore thank you very much!
@confused no more thank you very much!
@Gabriel Here’s the history
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/housing/docs/returning_students/room-selection/cutoff_history.html
@meooooowwww can you get RIVER with #300s and 20points?
what is better a 150-160sf single in Nussbaum or a 130sf in Broadway
@Anonymous you’re not getting a big nussbaum single.
small river is possible.
@meooooowwww who gets the nussbaums? is that broadway corner room around at 300?
@haha I love these cat noises you’re making
@meooooowwww but what about the answer to my question catlover?
@Seniors Seniors get Nussbaum singles and usually River singles, too. You could try for Broadway, though (…or Wien).
Good luck!
@False I know a Junior in a Nussbaum single.
@"wise" senior kids, i was in the bottom 10% three years straight. i made it through all right. however, i’m still using this as a reason to refuse to donate to columbia, ever. wien was really that horrible.
@Explain going with 30 points and # 1167 as a lottery number – what does this mean!?!
Bwog friends help!
@oh lord Mariela, I will give you the benefit of the doubt cuz you transferred from Brown. But seriously, look up the info you need on the housing site and wikicu. Don’t make us do your research for you.
@Are you there, God? If “y” is the number of four-person suites available, my group is number “y+1” in line by priority. I could fucking cry.
In fact, I think I will.
@Anonymous where can one find the list of cut off lottery numbers for housing??
@shit 30/2771 in general selection… hello, wein :'(
@what? why? you could still get a pretty decent non-shafted broadway single with that number.
@Anonymous Not according to the cutoff history…
@don't listen the cutoff numbers lie.
most, or at least half, of broadway goes to juniors. thus a senior, picking before all the juniors, is guaranteed to get broadway.
as a junior currently sitting in a lovely 116 sq ft broadway single, I can tell you you’ll be fine. don’t despair, no wien for you.
@umm what cutoff history are you looking at? the history says that exterior Broadway singles have always been available to a 30-pt pick, back through 2004.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/housing/docs/returning_students/room-selection/cutoff_history.html
@Anonymous Seriously… sometimes I think housing should be prioritized according to gpa
fml
@don't hate the playa, hate the game
@Anonymous THOSE FUCKING CREW ASSHOLES GOT THE FIRST SUITE ARE YOU SERIOUS!? WHY GOD WHY? WHAT DID THEY DO TO DESERVE THIS!?
@gosh darn 2/3 years my number has been 2600ish or worse. what I have done to upset you, oh fates!
@I'm no statistician..but no ruggles suite for me! fuck…
@This is the worst day ever.
Another year of climbing a step stool to get into my bed. :(
@Anonymous Or at least does someone know how many there are total
@Fuck My life.
@lottery scale can someone post what = good, what = bad for each class? i.e. did i get a good lottery # or not?
@221 is this a good lottery number for a rising sophomore?
@Anonymouse Shut up.
@Anonymous Deaton Jones and Matthew Grumbach. I will regularly pee on your door next year.
@hahahahaha hahahaha
@this should give you an idea of what’s good/a reasonable expectation for each building:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/housing/docs/returning_students/room-selection/cutoff_history.html
@rape i got raped