Word: randomly
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There has not been a significant increase in student choice (which is why the Undergraduate Council's new "enhanced choice" plan had to be introduced). Roughly 12 percent of each class for the past three years has been completely randomized. The houses that have gone random were the same houses that always go random. Those who did get into one of their four choices didn't get much of a choice either, with one-third of the houses at the University listed on their forms...
...Randomization isn't going to solve all of the University's problems, but it will make a start and it will show the University's commitment to diversity. While procuring a diverse student body and a diverse faculty are the best ways of ensuring that Harvard reflects a mixtures of race, ethnicity, income, geography and interest, random housing assignments are the best way for making sure that all of these people come in contact with each other...
Therefore, the remaining 75 spaces in Bok House will go by random chance to students in the ratio 335/180 of first-choices. In other words, 65 percent of the remaining Bok House slots will be filled by students who chose it as first-choice. That means 49 more people who chose Bok House first will get in. Your chance of getting in through the second round is 49/335, or 14.6 percent. Finally, one's chances for the two rounds are additive, so if you designated Bok House as a first choice, your total chance of getting into Bok House...
...TORNADO IS NATURE'S EQUIVALENT OF A DRIVE-by shooting -- random and deadly -- then the pair of storm systems that spun dozens of deadly twisters across 12 states, killing 25 and injuring hundreds, resembled a devastating artillery barrage. One trailer park in Rankin County, Mississippi, looked every bit the target of a heavy shelling after a twister roared through it. The storm, unleashing winds of more than 200 m.p.h., tossed one trailer 150 yds., wrapped another's heavy steel frame around a tree trunk like a coat hanger, lodged an empty refrigerator high in a pine tree and left...
...therefore, seems to be a hypocrisy coined to the outward benefit of both students and administration. Its only apparent purpose is to cast an aura of heightened political correctness over the campus. Is that warm, fuzzy feeling of egalitarianism the only thing to be gained by any sort of randomization? Most students would not dispute that the diversity afforded to them by their fairly random first-year accommodations is a fantastic opportunity for exposure to varied social and religious points of view...