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When you move-in
When you move into the co-ops, you will have a temporary room, and you’ll be assigned to a temporary roommate. Why? So that you can have time to get familiar with the house and meet all your potential roommates for the semester!
Houses host new member events that facilitate people getting to know each other.
Room Bids (that is, how you choose your “permanent” room)
Sometime in the first two weeks, there will be a “room bid” where everyone in the house gets together to choose rooms for the semester. There is a tour beforehand of all the vacant rooms so you can make an informed choice when it is your turn to bid.
Each house has their variations on room-bid procedures, but it generally works as follows:
- Each semester, you earn 1 point for living in the co-ops. In the summer, you earn .75 points. New members have 0 points.
- You will use these points for bidding on your room…the person/team with the most points chooses first, then the person with the 2nd most points, and so on, until all the rooms are filled up.
- When it is time for new members to bid, there is almost never any singles left – so new members hopefully have found themselves a bidding partner(s) to bid on a double, triple or quad.
- Every new member has the same amount of points (none) – to break this tie, some houses draw cards and some give priority to the earliest applicant.
- Once you have won a room for Fall or Spring, you get what we call “squatter’s rights” which means that you have first option to keep living in that room for future semesters.
- If you don’t want to stay in your room for a future semester, you can try to bid into a more preferred room every semester as you get more and more seniority.
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