Students receive a random,
computer-generated priority number. Your specific number appeared on the label
on the back of the booklet entitled "Your Home Away from Home" that was mailed
to students in late February. You can also look up your priority number on BannerStudent. For
students enrolled for the fall term who are participating in Room Draw, this
number determines the order in which they will select rooms. These priority
numbers will also determine the order in which housing assignments are made for
summer term '08, winter term '09 and spring term '09.
Active olders and rising seniors have the best numbers (801-2300).
Members of the class of 2009 will be participating in the Room Draw
first, followed by rising juniors (2301-3500), and then rising sophomores
(3501-4700). Room Draw occurs over the course of three nights. Which night you
attend is determined by your class year and priority number. Once at Room Draw,
students line up in priority number order and select their rooms for the
fall.
Rooms are selected based on one priority number. The person with the best
number may pull-in roommates to fill beds in the room chosen. For example, two
rising sophomores who want to be roommates have numbers 3510 and 4280. During
Room Draw the student with number 3510 will use his/her better number to draw
in his/her intended roommate who has number 4280. Together they will select
their room when number 3510 is called.
PRIORITY NUMBERS ARE NONTRANSFERABLE – you cannot give your number
to a friend if you don’t plan to use yours for the fall.
Manipulation of the priority number system does not hurt the Housing Office
but instead cheats your fellow students and is considered a serious infraction
by the Office of Residential Life. Examples of priority number manipulation
include, but are not limited to:
- One student with a "good" number picks a room with a friend and then
cancels their housing so the friend can pull someone else with a "bad" number
into the room.
- Two students with "bad" numbers want to be roommates so they find two
students with "good" numbers who want to live together to instead room with
them - the intention being that once fall term begins they will try to do a
room swap.
Students who are determined to have manipulated the priority number system
face penalties including removal from housing and/or other disciplinary
action.
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