[1351] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: tech a little confused on the numbers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Z Maze)
Fri Aug 30 12:56:00 2002
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 12:32:38 -0400
From: David Z Maze <dmaze@MIT.EDU>
To: MIT-Talk@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <a05101001b9953b831d0d@[10.0.1.12]> (Tony Gray's message of "Fri,
30 Aug 2002 11:47:16 -0400")
Tony Gray <tgray@MIT.EDU> writes:
> 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.
...
> totals: 132 first choices, 95 second choices, 60 third choices
So only about 300 frosh (out of a thousand or so) requested
reassignment at all? That feels pretty pitiful to me. Is it the case
that the over-the-summer material was so good that freshmen
successfully picked dorms they're happy and fit into the local
communities, or are they just lame?
--
David Maze dmaze@mit.edu http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/
Back when *I* was a freshman, we actually got a choice about where to live
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