47 CommentsUPDATE, 4/9: Housing has posted a list of General Selection times by priority number and by UNI. Go find out how many people pick before you!
UPDATE: General selection appointments have been emailed out, so go fret!
UPDATE: Housing just released a list of of all currently available and already assigned rooms (UNI Required), broken down by building and type!
Housing just revealed that not all juniors will be able to pick into singles in General Selection this year. There are currently 1123 juniors and seniors registered for General Selection and only 987 singles available during General Selection. This means that up to 136 juniors (though more likely 100-120, since not all upperclassmen will pick) will have to pick into the worst blind doubles left over from Suite Selection. Housing stressed, however, that those juniors will be able to get singles through Summer Transfer. The brownstones the frats were kicked out of (approximately 50 beds), graduate housing (at least 60 beds, all near campus), and some Barnard housing (14 beds) will be available for juniors.
The luckiest 40 sophomores (with lottery numbers under 440) will be able to pick into Furnald. Another 20-30 will end up in terrible blind doubles, and the rest (approximately 200) will be put on the Sophomore Waitlist. Those on the list will be transferred into the blind doubles vacated by the juniors when they are transferred into the Brownstones or graduate housing over the summer.
You’re not so fucked actually. Housing assures us that everyone will be given the best housing possible, by seniority. Juniors in particular should not worry if they have to pick a blind double in the McBain shaft during General Selection; they will not be there when September rolls around. Housing also announced that they are hoping to have info sessions to assuage juniors’ fears, hopefully sometime late next week.
In related news, General Selection appointment times will be posted soon.
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@Anonymous how about sophomores with point value higher than 10? does they count toward the lucky 40s? then the cutoff wouldn’t be 440….
@This doesn’t have the tag to put it in the Housing category.
@2900's and plus For all your friends that bragged about getting Ruggles suites and going crazy, raping your facebook with obnoxious posts…..fuck them
@Sucks once again, housing issues. Why do sophomores and Juniors have no great housing options? Nice that I’m around 2300 -____-
@So... If I’m an 1190s junior, am I gonna end up in wein/what are my chances of getting schapiro?
@Anonymous who cares about living with your friends, i’d most rather live comfortably, which seems virtually impossible
@hey i have a pretty small penis.
@senior in 2700s…..summer transfer? what r the chances of these brownstone rooms being good????
@A Thought You know who this really fucks over is the middle juniors who are not high enough to get Schapiro and not low enough to get onto summer transfer. The 2,300-2,500 are going to be forced into the shittiest of shitty Wein singles away from all their friends while the 2,900 will have a brownstone. Just another example of housing making a system THAT DOESN’T WORK!
@Anonymous Is there any way to tell how many people pick before you?
@Conor Yes! Look here:
https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/cu/reshalls/lists/AY_1112_GeneralSelection_Appointment_Times_By_Priority.pdf
@Anonymous Currently most of the rooms in the brownstones are doubles, will they be making them all into singles? Or will I just have to transfer to a double in a brownstone instead of McBain? my number is in the 2600’s and i pick on the 22nd of april.
@Anonymous a lot of the rooms in brownstones are singles….
@Anonymous 2904. Rising junior. #ftw
@Anonymous Haha, I’m living in woodbridge. Fuck you
@Anonymous Unless they are RAs or riders, no juniors
@Anonymous Sorry, this was in reply to Furnald question
@Anonymous did they change it? RA riders in furnald had to be soph before, and no RA riders in other freshman areas
@where da f are pics from 40’s on 40? Honestly, Bwog. Come on. The Spec is kicking ass right now!
@1100s i’m in the low 1100s (1100-1110), rising junior…what’re my odds of not getting screwed?
@shutup you’re fucking fine.
@Anonymous What a typical Columbia ninny…
@Anonymous I’m in the mid 1500’s. What are my chances? Am I a typical Columbia ninny? thnx
@Yes you are
@Anonymous What are the rooms in the frat brownstones like?
@yeah what are they like??????
@2300s So 2300s = terrible rooms in Wein? Do we have the option of dropping to summer transfer on purpose (i.e., picking a shaft room intentionally for the purposes of getting transferred)? Or if there are singles available do we automatically have to take them?
@Anonymous i live in wien now, it’s really not THAT bad. i think getting shafted would be worse.
@Anonymous all the remodeling they’ve done has helped a lot actually bathrooms are really nice
@Anonymous Is there a reason to assume no juniors at all take Furnald?
@Anonymous it’s sophomores and freshman only.
@Anonymous Thanks, thought so but couldn’t find it in writing anywhere.
@yeah they aren’t allowed to by housing.
@Anonopotamus Yes – only freshman and sophomores can live in Furnald.
@Anonymous So, is it a sure thing that there are 40 rising sophomores in gen sel with numbers under 440?
@Peter Yes. Housing calculated that if the 40 sophomores with the best lottery numbers in General Selection chose Furnald, the singles would run out by about lottery number 440.
@Anonymous Accounting for people who dropped from suite selection?
@Anonymous how about sophomores with point value higher than 10? does they count toward the lucky 40s? then the cutoff wouldn’t be 440….
@Anon Well, yes and no.
Yes, you won’t get a single now. From what I can tell, that’s almost certain.
No, because you’re number’s pretty high so you can probably transfer into a semi-decent single.
@Anon Sorry. This is the reply to “So.”
@Best Bwog title ever.
@Anonymous 1162. Rising Junior.
Should I be worried?
@Anon If you’re hoping for Broadway/River, yes.
Schapiro, possibly.
Wien/McBain/Harmony, probably not.
But you can’t be certain until they release the general selection list.
@So Should I assume if I’m in the high 2700’s as a rising junior i’m screwed?
@Peter You will have to pick a blind double in General Selection, but if you fill out a Summer Transfer form, you are almost guaranteed to be transferred into a single over the summer.
@2121 what the most likely situation with 2120 as a junior?
@Anonymous So let them get married