Early Student Notification

To reduce anxiety and minimize phone call inquiries, students are notified of their fall semester hall assignment by midsummer. After the first cutoff in June, assignments are made as applications arrive and are entered into HMS. As students cancel and free up the more desirable spaces, Ranville blocks these prize locations from the automatic assignment process until she can manually move the more senior students into such better beds. Students are kept apprised of improvements to their assignment due to cancellations thoughout the summer and up until the day they move in. This time-consuming `upgrading' task, requiring lots of intuition and good will on Ranville's part, attempts to place students into their preferred hall. Further consequences of this policy are presented in Section 2.2.2.

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