[1350] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
tech a little confused on the numbers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Gray)
Fri Aug 30 12:28:59 2002
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 11:47:16 -0400
From: Tony Gray <tgray@MIT.EDU>
To: MIT-Talk@MIT.EDU
The Tech accidentally misreported the Adjustment Lottery preference numbers.
The overall numbers are right. 74% of students who received a
reassignment were reassigned to their first choice, 19% to their
second, and 7% to their third.
But the numbers the Tech reports for individual dorms are inaccurate.
Their data reflects where students who requested a move -- many of
whom did not move -- ended up:
<Dorm, number of students>
Baker,7
Bexley,9
Burton-Conner,17
East Campus, 35
MacGregor, 20
New House, 19
Next House, 0
Random Hall, 7
Senior House, 14
Simmons, 4
Cultural, 8
Next House, for example, saw many requests, but no movement (only 10
students were eligible to move from Next House, a dorm with Residence
Based Advising, and none of them chose to).
These numbers are not an good indication of how many 1st, 2nd, and
3rd choices individual dorms received overall.
Here are the accurate numbers.
Preferences by dorm, whether they were filled or not:
<Dorm, number of 1st, 2nd, 3rd choices, total choices, percentage of
all choices>
Senior House, 3, 0, 1, 4, 2.9
Bexley, 2, 4, 4, 10, 7.1
Random Hall, 9, 1, 0,10, 7.1
East Campus, 10, 3, 4, 17, 12.1
New House, 4, 9, 5, 18, 12.9
Next House, 10, 10, 9, 29, 20.7
Baker, 18, 10, 8, 36, 25.7
Burton-Conner, 11, 19, 12, 42, 30.0
MacGregor, 27, 16, 6, 49, 35.0
Simmons, 38, 23, 11, 72, 51.4
totals: 132 first choices, 95 second choices, 60 third choices
In the coming days, as analysis of the lottery data proceeds, more
statistics will become available. Anyone who is interested in these
numbers can contact me.
Hope all is well.
Best,
-- Tony
--
Anthony E. Gray, Ph.D.
MIT, Residential Life Associate
Office: W51-040, 617.452.4280
Home: S&P-668, 617.225.6627
http://web.mit.edu/~tgray/www
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