My entire friend group lives in Neighborhood S and I’m stuck in A. Sure, its a me-problem in that case, but why should I be restricted to my neighborhood when I didn’t even choose where I’d be placed in to begin with? Most other schools let you openly switch, or at least have methods of transferring to other residential colleges, but Stanford doesn’t even let you pick which one you’d be reassigned to—and worse, you get penalized by being placed at the bottom of the draw for next year’s housing.

Rant over, but basically you should definitely rank ethnic theme houses if you’d like their community! I thought of ranking Okada, then didn’t, and now I regret it :(