Within the next week, Columbia students will have the opportunity to select housing for the coming academic year. With rules such as senior regroup and sophomore pair-up, students try to gauge the housing options that they will have available as a result of assigned lottery numbers.

Most students were fairly content with their numbers. Two juniors said, "Our lottery number for the year is 1480. We're going to try to get a suite in EC, the five person suite with all singles."

One lucky sophomore exclaimed, "264. It's pretty good. We're going to live in Nussbaum, hopefully. Maybe Broadway."

A lucky freshman beamed as he said, "I got number 152 and I think I'm in good shape to live in Furnald next year."

Nevertheless not everyone was happy. A rising senior complained, "2952. It's not great but I won't live in McBain shaft."

This year, Columbia has made many renovations to more fully accomodate students. CTV News spoke with Scott Wright, Vice President of Auxilliary Services, to find out what kind of changes are being made.

In regards to the renovations, Scott Wright said, "There are some summer renovations going on. We renovated the top floors of Wiein Hall last summer and we added ADA baths, single-person-use bathrooms (eight of them) in the buildling for all different floors. We also built three lounges last year on the different floors. This summer we will go through floors two through eight and once again, do bathroom renovations on those remaining floors."

The renovations are attracting some students to consider dorms they didn't before, such as Wein. One student said "I didn't know they were renovating the buildings but walk through doubles in Wein are nice and I really want a double so I guess if those get renovated to be nicer I would consider living there. I don't know anything about Woodbridge, though, so I'm not really sure how that would affect my decision."

Suite selection starts Wednesday at 10AM in John Jay lounge and general selection begins April 20.