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Under non-ordered choice, students would be randomly assigned to one of three or four house preferences...
Surprisingly, the plan has also received the backing of the masters--despite the fact that a smaller majority of masters would prefer a 100 percent random lottery. A sincere concern is that the masters have compromised too much...
...more fundamentally, non-ordered choice will fail because it will allow students who would ordinarily not live in the stereotyped houses to continue to avoid them. After all, a perennially popular first-choice house is "Anywhere but Adams, Eliot or Kirkland...
...essence, non-ordered choice would introduce randomization into all the houses except those that need it most...
...entirely random process would assure that diversity is more than a frequently-trumpeted virtue. It would put the athlete, academic, musician, artist, political activist in the same house, allowing them to bounce their ideas off each other...