[1353] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: tech a little confused on the numbers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Josiah D. Seale)
Fri Aug 30 14:13:00 2002
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:40:37 -0400
Reply-To: siah@media.mit.edu
From: "Josiah D. Seale" <siah@MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
To: MIT-Talk@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <y688z2ob93t.fsf@multics.mit.edu>
Here at Senior Haus, we got a good crop of frosh who requested us. They
seemed psyched about being here and about the haus culture. At the same
time, there certainly were frosh who didn't even know that they had the
option of switching out or couldn't be bothered.
The answer to your question (just from chatting with folks informally) seems
to be "some of both: lame frosh and happy frosh".
+>JDS
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Talk about MIT, for MIT, by MIT. [mailto:MIT-Talk@MIT.EDU]On
> Behalf Of David Z Maze
> Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 12:33 PM
> To: MIT-Talk@MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: tech a little confused on the numbers
>
>
> 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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