On April 8, many rising sophomores and juniors will make one of the bigger decisions of their college career — where to live next year. Maybe you’re a rising junior vying for a Graduate Center single. Maybe you’re an incoming sophomore with a late time-slot hoping to avoid Perkins Hall at all costs. No matter your goal, The Herald is here to help. The Herald’s Data Desk analyzed hour-by-hour data of how last year’s selection process played out. The bad news? You probably aren’t getting into Chen Family Hall or Danoff Hall. The good news? Unless you sleep through your time slot, you probably aren’t going to be forced into Perkins either.

But there’s a whole lot of housing between those two extremes, so The Herald built a couple tools to help you find that sweet spot. If you scroll past these paragraphs, you’ll find a tool where you can specify special-interest housing designations and other housing desires to get personalized information about what your likely choices will be. For those most eager to dive into the data, you can search for every single room matching certain criteria at a given point in time in housing. Of course, there’s no guarantee that selection this year will go just like last year, but you can reasonably expect many patterns to hold.

If you scroll a little past that, you can see a graph of the percentage of rooms available in each dorm, hour-by-hour throughout the entire selection process.

Enough explaining. Enjoy the data. We hope it helps you through one of the more challenging processes in Brunonia. And, of course, good luck — you may well need it.