While most lottery winners can win up to a million dollars, winners of the Elon University’s housing lottery win the chance to choose where they live next school year.
Elon’s Residence Life implemented the new lottery based housing process this year, where students receive random times to register for their future housing.
This significant new change alters the previous GPA based housing process, where students with the highest GPA would be allowed to choose their housing first.
This change doesn’t affect all students at Elon. According to the Residence Life website, “rising sophomores will be given a random sign up time for housing selection instead of the HPN (semesters multiplied by GPA).”
The Housing Priority Number (HPN) process has been in use for the past several years, but now will only apply to rising juniors and seniors.
This lottery system was a big change, but Residence Life maintained the policy that, “the person with the earliest time will still be able to pull in roommates,” according to the website.Many students feel that sophomores saw the greatest impact in this change.
Were you aware of the changes made to the housing process this year, and did it affect your housing plans for Fall 2017?
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