Preference Priority

Each year students are surveyed to learn their feelings regarding the importance of hall choice over roommate requests. The hall usually wins over a friend, and Ranville adjusts the rules attempting to reflect this perception the following year. It becomes the delayed broad brush-stroke with the highest penalty. Many fine-brush strokes are also involved to minimize age differences, separate students with conflicting music tastes and study habits, with smaller impact on the overall score. The challenge of setting these values is discussed in Section 4.1.1.

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