What's your destiny?
We’ve got another housing calculator for you
By Staff
As if the massive PDF of lottery numbers and our housing calculator weren’t enough for you yesterday, we’ve got another, far more comprehensive little doodad that will tell you where people with a lottery number like yours ended up.
For example, if you enter in a lottery number of 3000 (we hope you don’t have that) and a point value of 10, this little gadget will provide a list of the people with similar numbers and point values in the 2010 and 2011 and what they ended up calling home for a year. The calculator can also filter the results by building and year.
Just in case you didn’t want to click ‘doodad,’ you can check it out here.
This is pretty cool, but I think it would be more telling to have a calculator that says what groups in previous years with approximately the same relative position picked (i.e. what the 45th group of 6 picked in 2010 vs 2011 etc.).
We’d love to do that, but the data we have doesn’t specify groups, just UNIs, lotto numbers, point values, and eventual rooms. If you know of any way to establish who is in what group, please email us at developers@columbiaspectator.com
Where this calculator is really useful is general selection. Check out Mikey’s calculator from yesterday for how many groups are in front of you (if you haven’t already), that’s going to be more useful for group selection.
you can do that yourself. find out how many groups go in front of you this year using spec’s first calculator. then go to http://bwog.com/2011/03/21/stop-counting/ and use their calculator from last year to find out what lottery number last year had the same number of groups in front of it as yours does this year.
plug that equivalent lottery number from last year into this calculator, and there ya go! kind of complicated, but if you really want it, you can get it.
schapiro single vs Broadway single. What’s the difference and which one is more preferrable?
Juniors overwhelmingly pick Broadway/River singles ahead of Schapiro but personally, with the renovations in Schapiro from the 10th floor upwards, I actually like Schapiro a smidge more.
Differences I’d say are:
1) Broadway has a better lounge/sliiightly better location.
2) Broadway kitchens are a bit cramped and are definitely worse than Schapiro’s.
3) Schapiro combines its lounge with its kitchen so it can sometimes get smelly. Broadway’s are disjoint from each other.
4) Schapiro bathrooms on the renovated floors are a little bit better.
5) Air circulation at Broadway is loads better. At the expense of sounding like a total housing geek, Broadway’s air circulation is INCREDIBLE.
6) Broadway rooms are wooden flooring, Schapiro’s (I believe) are still all carpet.
7) Schapiro has a drinking fountain on the first floor.
8) Broadway is mostly juniors/seniors, Schapiro is mostly sophomores/juniors.
Hope that helps!
There are definitely Schapiro rooms with wooden flooring.
One additional advantage for Schapiro is its amazing sky lounge. It’s seriously awesome.
So helpful! thanks a lot dude.
how did so many 10 point groups get into woodbridge last year ? is that common?
I think that’s a mistake. The Woodbridge cutoff last year was 20/1086 and even though it should be better than that this year, it won’t get close to the sophomores.
this can be used for general selection?