Upperclass students, do you have a draw time at the 95th percentile of all draw groups where you can score one of the most spacious singles or a quad with private bedrooms? If not, you might want to read on to prepare yourself for upperclass room draw.
Upperclass student room draw will begin at 9:30 a.m. on April 11 with a two-person group taking their pick, and will end April 17. It is the last cohort of a several-week-long room draw process that began with independent students on April 1, followed by residential college draw, which takes place from April 2 to April 10.
We categorized each upperclass room currently on the available rooms list by specific room type, square footage, access to laundry, and a relative popularity score. For the popularity score, we used last year’s available rooms lists to estimate the percentile of each room, calculated as the fraction of all available upperclass rooms that were picked after the room at hand.
Unlike last year, drawing into Walker Hall is again an option for undergraduates. In a statement to The Daily Princetonian, the University wrote, “There will be no graduate students residing in Walker Hall during the 2025-26 Academic Year.”
While rooms won’t leave the official housing list, rooms definitely have the potential to be added. In a comment to the ‘Prince’, the University stated that the available rooms list undergoes “near-constant change as students accept or decline room contracts,” providing merit to last-minute research prior to a group’s draw time.
The ‘Prince’ found 16 different types of rooms available to upperclass residents this year.
Aside from the 423 singles available to upperclass students this year, the most prevalent room type was for two residents, with 136 doubles listed on the available rooms list. Doubles are also the most diverse of the upperclass housing options, with 20 percent having one room, 16 percent having two private bedrooms, 32 percent having three rooms, and 32 percent having a common room and a double bedroom.
Three-room doubles were the earliest-chosen rooms in the 2024 upperclass draw, with rooms chosen at the 74th percentile of room draw participants on average. In other words, these rooms were on average selected in the first 26 percent of all room selections. Singles and quingles — quads with four private bedrooms and a common room — were chosen on average at the 63rd percentile.
In the 2024 upperclass draw, groups wholly avoided both normal quads — quads with two double bedrooms and a common room — and triples, each being in the 12th and 19th percentile on average respectively. This may suggest that upperclassmen desire their own living space as they move into their second half of undergraduate residence.
Singles consistently offer the largest square footage per resident on average. 19 of the 20 largest rooms sorted by square footage per resident are singles. However, singles can also offer residents some of the smallest living areas with 16 of the 20 smallest rooms being singles.
The largest room of three or more occupants in terms of square footage per occupant is 1901 Hall 411, a three-room triple with around 280 square feet per person. The smallest is Walker Hall 312, with 119 square feet per resident — less than half of 1901 Hall 411. Interestingly, a single around this size would be at the 6th percentile of all single rooms in last year’s draw.
1901 Hall has the highest diversity of room types, with nine types of rooms available. Feinberg Hall has the least unique room types with eight quads and one six-person room available.
About a quarter of the total number of singles are in Scully Hall, the only upperclass residence hall south of Butler College and the future site of Hobson College. While less centrally located, Scully was the first hall to run out of rooms during last year’s draw, providing more evidence for a high preference towards single rooms.
Little Hall has the most sizable singles with an average of 214 square feet across its four singles. 1903 and Brown Halls have the smallest quads with an average square footage of around 520 and 530 square feet, respectively. Quads in Dod and Lockhart Halls are over 700 square feet on average.
Overall, each upperclass residence hall has its own considerations depending on an individual’s preferences on square footage, privacy among roommates, location, or laundry services. While a Dod quad or Scully single might be drawn within the first 10 percent of rooms, draw groups lower on the list can plan realistically to maximize their housing experience next year.
Vincent Etherton is a head Data editor for the ‘Prince.’
Alexa Wingate is a head Data editor for the ‘Prince.’
Please send any corrections to corrections[at]dailyprincetonian.com.
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