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Mancall and Nye Barth both said that they assume students are honest in their application, although many of the questions are open-ended...
Each ADF goes about the process in a particular fashion, but all begin making assignments based on the size of suites in their yard. For example, Nye Barth’s Crimson Yard—which included Grays, Wigglesworth, Greenough, Hurlbut, and Pennypacker—contains a variety of room sizes, so before she begins assigning rooms, she sorts the pile into two groups: students who want smaller rooms of three or fewer and those who want larger rooms. On the other hand, Mancall’s Ivy Yard—which includes Claverly, Hollis, Holworthy, Lionel, Massachusetts Hall, Mower...
After looking at students’ preferences for rooming-group size, ADF’s look for is compatibility. “We try to find people who have at least one thing in common with academic interests, extracurricular, personal descriptions,” Nye Barth said. She said she also takes into account things like “messiness and hours, though those change dramatically when [students] get here...
...Nye Barth offered a hypothetical student name John as an example...
...ADF’s’ goal, however, is not necessarily to match up students who will be best friends 10 years after graduation, although Mancall and Nye Barth say that would be an added bonus. Instead, they look for people who can learn from each other...