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Ah! Ah! 2991. That's a bad number!
But no more worries! Below is a housing “calculator” that lets you know how many groups of your size will go before you. To use it, enter your group size, point value, and lotto number, then click “GO!”
Blake Arnold, SEAS ’11, created it last year, and with his permission, we’ve adapted it for the 2011-2012 lottery and embedded it below.
Update: Justin Kahn has tipped us with a Google Doc he made that shows similar information, neatly laid out in a spreadsheet.
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@Anonymous THIS IS AWESOME!! THANKS SO MUCH!
@Anonymous Where do we find our times for selection?
@Anonymous It’s not up yet — they’ll put up all the times on the Housing website
@Harmony Hunter Bring it on mother fucker! :P
@Anonymous SO TRUE ABOUT ZEBRA EYES bwog i love you lots
@Anonymous Potentially dumb question, but can someone please clarify what it means when it says “General Selection!” next to a group that is slated to pick before yours?? Does that mean that they are definitely dropping to general and that you can basically discount them?
@Anonymous They entered as a group in general selection. You don’t have to worry about them if you want a suite.
@David Correct! Also worth noting these General Selection groups aren’t counted in the grand total of “Total Groups before yours” for groups of size 2 or greater (i.e., for groups in Suite Selection).
@um you ripped this off from the Spectator.
@~ What does it mean when it says “General Selection!” on the side of one of the groups listed?
@Anonymous Perhaps that the group is in general selection.
(So if you’re in suite selection, that’s one less group to worry about)
@Anonymous Does anyone know when they will actually run out of housing for groups of 2?
@Anonymous That calculator is inaccurate!
@Harmony Hunter Hunter Anyone know where I can find the Harmony Hunter? Got a Triple-Mil on hit on his head…
@spec's is way better
@Anonymous this calculator is better!
http://haldean.org:2000/
@Anonymous Seems to not work for me. And the lack of details is uncomfortable
@Anonymous What doesn’t work about it? If you found a bug, I’d be glad to fix it.
@It's def off by 1 for me…
@haldean.org It wasn’t letting me reply to your response, so I’m responding here. Can you email me your UNI at me@haldean.org? I’ll look into it and see what’s going on. Thanks!
@If Facebook were Invented at Columbia Open on Mark Zuckerberg planning where to live next year. He meets the Winklevoss-stein twins to discuss ConnectU inside their exclusive club.
It is promptly raided by the police.
After not returning emails and saying they’re too swamped with problem sets like ROTC to work on the site, as well as talking about how “open” and “transparent” the code will be, Columbia develops its own rival application called TheFacebook.com.
TheFacebook.com is a worthless piece of shit that doesn’t even work. After consulting with a consortium of businesspeople in the (alleged) student center, Prezbo decides to rename it TheColumbiaCommunityInitiativeToCreateTheFacebookUnderTheOfficeOfAdministrativeAdministration.com, stating simply, “It’s cleaner.”
Zuckerberg, his housing assets having been frozen by his partner University, enters the housing lottery. Close on Zuckerberg hitting refresh over and over on his miserable lottery number.
@question: is there a count somewhere of exactly how much of everything there is? How many 6, 5, 4, etc. person suites? How many singles, total?
This sort of thing would be useful general information, I think.
@Anonymous try housing cutoff history at http://housingservices.columbia.edu/content/cutoff-history
@M I counted by hand last year. You also need to find the page with “suites withheld from lottery” for special interest, greeks, and disability. This is the most important. Also, my numbers were right, then housing posted wrong numbers all day with how many were left. We thought we’d lost everything, but got behind the scary bulletin boards and were totally fine.
@Oh SEAS kids! However much we get sick of your incessant whining about P-sets and how you really work way harder than we do because writing is oh so easy, when we need an algorithm, you’re there. Cuz let’s be honest, most of us CCers would be going page by page with a highlighter.
@Hmm. Due to my appreciation for numbers, I’m happy that this exists, but with senior regroup and people dropping to general selection, how useful is this?
I’m not trying to be facetious like “unhelpful” up there, but I’m genuinely curious what value this has.
@Anonymous Senior regroup and dropping to general does mess with things, but you can get some sort of idea from it.
@Anonymous yeah are there any kind of numbers on how many people drop to general selection?
@broken... says 37, counting by hand says 40…
@unhelpful that is what this is
@Anonymous this ish is broke yo
@Anonymous This thing don’t work.
@Confused does this tell you how many groups with the same number of people in your group go before you? cause this says there are only 44 people ahead of us which cant be right cause our lotto number is abismal!
@David Yep!
Using the default parameters, suppose you are in a 7-person group with point value 10 and lottery number 3000. There are 26 groups of size 7 that will go before you in Suite Selection, giving you a sense of how unlikely it is that you’ll get Claremont.