Bryn Mawr College

Room Draw Options

HALL GROUP DRAW  -   Refer to Room Draw Calendar for specific dates & times

• Hall Group cards available in the Residential Life Office
• Fill out white card at Housing Sign-Ups
• Submit Hall Group cards to Residential Life
• Attend Hall group draw Wednesday, April 11
• Select individual rooms at Room Selection in all dorms

Hall groups are pre-designated rooms on a floor which are treated as a group to permit students whose first priority is to live together to do so. The entire group must be willing to live together for the full academic year.

Hall group sizes range from 2 person to 6 person. You may sign up for more than one hall group of unequal sizes, but may not sign up with more than one group of the same size. Groups of the same size with overlapping members will be disqualified.

For the draw, each hall group application is assigned a number of points based upon the class standing of the group members (senior=3 points, junior=2 pts, sophomore=1 pt). Applications with the same number of points are then placed in random order to determine the draw order. Hall groups are drawn from the largest group to the smallest group. Groups will draw in point order. You are eligible to draw any hall group of the appropriate size that is still available when your group is called. If the hall group you want is not available when your group is called, you may pass and drop to Multiple Occupancy Draw or Regular Room Draw without penalty. As soon as you take a hall group, all other groups of which you are a member are eliminated from the draw. Hall groups that are not drawn go back into the regular draw as individual rooms.

Once you accept a hall group you are not permitted to rescind your selection. If a hall group loses a member after the draw for any reason, Residential Life in consultation with Residence Council reserves the right to reassign the members of the hall group or to fill the remaining vacancy. Students in suites or doubles may choose to fill the remaining space within two weeks of vacancy or be reassigned to any available single.

MULTIPLE OCCUPANCY DRAW  -  Refer to Room Draw Calendar for specific dates & times

• Multiple Occupancy cards available in the Residential Life Office
• Fill out white card at Housing Sign-Ups
• Submit Multiple Occupancy cards to Residential Life
• Attend Multiple Occupancy draw
• Attend Room Selection to elect dorm officers in all dorms

Multiple Occupancy rooms are available to permit students to share a room together. Students who draw multiple occupancy rooms are expected to live together for the entire year. If a student leaves the multiple occupancy room for any reason, including JYA, the remaining resident is expected to fill the vacancy or be willing to be re-assigned to another room.

Multiple occupancy rooms range in size from 2 person to 4 person. You may sign up for multiple occupancy rooms of unequal sizes, but may not sign up for more than one group of the same size. Groups of the same size with overlapping members will be disqualified.

Each application uses the best priority number of its members, with seniors having highest priority. So, the best priority number for each group size determines the draw order. You are eligible to draw any multiple occupancy room of the appropriate size that is still available when you are called. If the multiple occupancy room you want is not available when you are called, you may pass and drop to Regular Room Draw without penalty. As soon as you take a multiple occupancy room, all other groups of which you are a member are eliminated from the draw. Any multiple occupancy rooms that are not drawn go back into the regular draw.

Once you take a multiple occupancy room you are not permitted to rescind your selection. If a vacancy occurs in a multiple occupancy room the remaining resident is expected to fill the vacancy or be willing to be re-assigned to another room.

REGULAR ROOM DRAW  -  Refer to Room Draw Calendar for specific dates & times

• Fill out white card at Housing Sign-Ups
• Attend Regular Room Draw for rising seniors

OR

• Attend Regular Room Draw for rising juniors & sophomores
• Select rooms at Room Selection in all residence halls

At these draws, students who want a single room choose individual dorms, by class, according to priority numbers within each class, beginning with seniors. Each dorm will “close” as the class quota (number of spaces reserved for each class in each dorm) is reached.

Any multiple occupancy rooms that were not drawn during Multiple Occupancy Draw will be available in the regular draw. Juniors and sophomores drawing into a multiple occupancy room with seniors should attend senior room draw on Monday night. Students who want one of these rooms will select the actual room they want at this draw. The person with the priority number called first will choose the specific room and will announce the name(s) of her roommate(s). Students in this situation must still attend the Room Selection at their new hall in order to participate in the election of dorm officers. Once you take a multiple occupancy room you are not permitted to rescind your selection. If a vacancy occurs in a multiple occupancy room, the remaining resident is expected to fill the vacancy or be willing to be re-assigned to another room.

If your first priority is to live in a single in the same dorm as a friend in your class who has a far worse priority number, the person with the best number may pass and asked to be called again later immediately after her friend.  For example, if you have number 25 and your friend has number 200 and you want to try and make sure you both end up in the same dorm, you can ask to be called 200.1 so that you can draw immediately after your friend.  Please note that you would keep this new number for Room Selection.

Merion is the designated Winter Break dorm.  All those who draw into Merion do so with the understanding that their rooms will be used by students who must remain during the break.