I strongly prefer a male-only or female-only accomodation. What can I do?
Ashdown is a coed dorm and unless you are granted special circumstances or live in one of the few designated single-sex suites, any vacancies may be filled by incoming residents of any gender. However, as long as you don’t necessarily require it, we have a few suggestions to use the lottery algorithm to your advantage: • Consider stapling with friends of the same gender and preferencing as many suites as possible so you get in somewhere as a stapled group. • Give a higher preference to rooms in suites with others of the same gender (if those others aren’t planning to enter the lottery themselves). These may be known vacancies that we publish the genders of the current suitemates, or suites with people you happen to know. • Preference the single-sex suites (see next question) high on your list, in case a vacancy opens up there. • Once moved, keep in touch with your suitemates, and ensure that if one of them moves out, that you enter the subsequent lottery to try to “staple in” a friend
