general-selection

Wed, Apr 17, 2013, 10:00am
For those of you who are still floating in the abyss of housing uncertainty, we bring you our General Selection Online Selection preview. (BTW, it starts today.) Below, we've outlined which options are likely to go when, what's what, and what to expect. After all seniors and mixed-point groups...
Fri, Dec 7, 2012, 9:36pm
There’s been a lot of talk about brownstones and housing this semester, including last weekend’s announcement that Lambda, AXO and Q House will occupy the three open brownstones on 114. The next question of focus will be how to use the newly acquired brownstones on 113. When the administration...
Mon, Apr 16, 2012, 6:11pm
The GenSel list is up on StarRez. Take a look here. Now that you've taken a look before the analysis, here's a big disclaimer: General Selection predictions can be wildly off due to individual preferences (as opposed to Suite Selection, which is tremendously more predictable). With that warning,...
Sun, Apr 15, 2012, 7:11pm
For any intrepid comp-sci majors out there, I have an idea for the next Facebook. Ok, maybe not Facebook, but a social marketplace for undergrad housing, which in the world of Columbia, is probably just as significant to all of us as a the thing called “life” that Facebook covers for the rest of...
Sat, Apr 23, 2011, 11:45am
After Friday's registration, in which basically everything went as predicted in the prior Housing post, the fog (though you never really know with Housing) has mostly settled.
Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 8:38pm
So, 202 rising juniors later, Wien and Harmony are both still standing and still have a higher-than-expected number of singles. That's good (for juniors)!
Wed, Apr 20, 2011, 10:48am
With General Selection set to resume tomorrow, and a whopping 202 rising juniors set to pick into the remaining singles, it's time again to breakdown what's going to happen. First, a few quick previews. The last-single-room cutoff will be around 20/2700 and the Sophomore Waitlist cutoff is...
Thu, Apr 14, 2011, 8:46pm
The Shaft has been dormant for a while, and that's because there really hasn't been much for us to do since General Selection, because of individual preferences, tends to be much less predictable than Suite Selection. And with  this neat website, Housing has the room counts covered pretty darn...