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In order to participate in Harnwell’s In-House Rooming process, at least one member of a group must be living in Harnwell during Spring 2007. The following forms will uploaded to the Harnwell House Website: a. individual calculation sheet; b. group cover sheet; c. compability sheet to find other roommates

Main features:

• Applicants apply in groups of 1 to 12 students, at least one of whom is a current resident of the house.
• For each semester that a resident has lived in Harnwell, he or she will receive 1 point, allowing for a maximum of 6 points per resident.
• The score for the group will be the average of the scores for each resident in the group.
• Selection for rooms will begin with the highest scoring.
• For groups with the same score, a lottery will be implemented to decide the order in which rooms are selected.
• There is no guaranteed room retention. If an old room is available when one draws, one is free to choose it again. Keeping one’s current room, however, is not guaranteed. [See below for a rule regarding retention priority.]
• If in the midst of the process, a large group chooses to reconfigure itself as smaller groups, each of the smaller groups will be assigned its own recalculated score.

On each of the following evenings, at 7:30 pm in the Rooftop Lounge until c. 9:30, room choice (and lotteries between equivalent scores) will take place. Highest group averages will start the session and choices will continue toward the lowest scores. Tied averages between groups will be settled first by asking anyone whose room is still in the pool of choices whether they wish to retain. This is the retention priority rule. Afterwards, ties will be settled by lottery.

DATE of LOTTERY	GROUP average (=X)	Example
Tuesday, February 5th	6 >= X > 4	3rd year Harnwell resident = 6
Wednesday, February 6th	4 >= X >= 3	2nd year Harnwell resident =4
Thursday, February 7th	3 > X >= 1	1st year Harnwell resident =2
Friday, February 8th	1 > X > 0*	spring semester transfer student =1

* Technically, the lowest number possible for the group average is 0.08. This would be the case if only 1 person had lived in Harnwell spring semester for the minimum time and if that total were divided by the maximum number of participants (12).

All participants in a group are strongly encouraged to attend the entire session to choose a room. One person from each group will be the designated captain who will choose for the group if some people are unable to attend