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Submitting your preferencesAfter interviewing with RFs, you will need to submit an online preference list of dorms where you would like to be placed. You should only list the locations where you would like to be an RCC; make sure you are comfortable with each dorm on your list as you may be placed in your tenth choice. If you are applying to more than one staff position, you may interview for as many staff positions as you like, but you are only allowed to submit one preference list in the end; you must decide by the preference list submission deadline which position's selection process you would like to continue with. What happens after I submit my preferences?Once RFs have submitted their ranked lists of whom they would like to hire, and RCC applicants have submitted their ranked lists of where they would like to work, ResComp must match applicants to residences. The matching procedure is pretty straightforward, and we don't manipulate the results at all. In short, if an applicant's top choice is a house that also wants her as its top choice, they form an obvious match. Once all of the obvious matches are taken care of, those applicants and houses are taken out of circulation, and the match repeats with another round given who and what are still available. this continues until all RCC positions are filled. So, in the second and later rounds, all that matters is what you want most, given what's left. Where that top choice was in your original rankings is irrelevant. To be clear, if you're still unassigned in the second round and your original first and second choice houses are gone, you have an equal shot at your top remaining choice (your original third choice house) as does an applicant who ranked that house first in the first place. The idea here is that if (given what's still available) a house wants an applicant and that applicant wants a house, they match. What's past is past, and the baggage of your history is irrelevant. Second-Guessing Your PreferencesWith this system there is no reason to finagle your rankings. Say you want to live in Mill House, but think you have a better a shot at Burns Hall. Perhaps you got a vibe that the RF in Burns Hall (Principal Skinner) really wants you. You may be inclined to rank Burns Hall higher, to increase your chances of being an RCC somewhere, given that you don't know if the Mill House RF (Professor Frink) even cares you're alive. Under the current matching system this won't help. If your earlier choices are exhausted (meaning those houses wanted applicants that wanted them in return), and your next choice is Mill House, you will wait to see if you get that spot. Mill House will go through its choices until it matches with someone else (and becomes unavailable to you) or matches you. More importantly, if Burns Hall really wants you, they will wait for you. You will eventually either exhaust your other options and match with them, or match with a house you want more, in which case Burns Hall will get over it and move on. As such, you don't hurt your chances. When There Are No Clear MatchesIn some rounds there might be no clear matches (where house and applicant top choices match). In such rounds, we instead look for '3-point-matches,' where a house's 1st choice is an applicant's 2nd choice (of those remaining). If there is at least one of those, we do them all, and reset for the next round. If there are no such matches, we look for alternate 3-point-matches, where an applicant's 1st choice is a house's 2nd choice (of those remaining). If there are none, we keep going with 4-point-matches 'till we find a match, and once we do, we match all of that type. Note that we start the 3-point-matches with what the house wants. In general we weight applicant and house ranking equally, but with anything other than clear matches there is a chance of a tie. For example, a resident can match two places at once if he wants a house 1st that wants him 2nd, but his 2nd choice house wants him 1st. Similarly, a house can match with two applicants. To prevent these ties, we give deference to the house choices. The idea is that the RF is not only trying to hire a candidate they like, but also trying to build a balanced staff team along with the RAs, etc. This does present an indirect advantage to the applicants, in that a house that wants you next will wait for you (for example Burns Hall above) even if a round gets messy, since it takes longer for the match in that round to start looking at the house's second choice. How does this compare to the RA matching process?This matching process is the same as the RA matching process. If an applicant wnats to be in a house and the RFs want that applicant, they match. An example from a later round:BURNS HALL
Two houses want Bart, he's ambivalent about both - who should get him? The one he wants more, or the one that wants him more? Two applicants want Burns Hall, the RF is ambivalent about both - who should be assigned? The one the RF wants more, or the one that wants to be there more? Under this system, it is important that in later rounds if a house prefers an applicant to the other remaining applicants, and the applicant prefers that house to the other remaining houses, they match. This does not, however, take into account how much the remaining applicants initially wanted that house, or how much the remaining houses initially wanted that applicant. It only takes into account what everybody wants most, given what's still available. What If There Are No Matches For a House?It's possible that at the end of all rounds of the matching procedure a house will be left without an RCC. This would happen if the RF's list of candidates they'll take is exhausted, because in each case the applicant preferred another house that also wanted her. If this happens, we generally offer an unassigned applicant that we like to the RF. If the RF and applicant meet and agree, they match. As such, it is possible to get an offer even if you don't match in the first round. The other way to get a late offer is if an applicant is offered a job and for some reason turns it down. This is rare, but if it happens the next unassigned applicant on the house list is offered the job. If there are none, as above the RF is offered a candidate they haven't met. That's it! |
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