The University of Wisconsin weighed advice from a student focus group and an e-mail survey before replacing its first-come, first-served approach with a weighted lottery system. Class standing as of June 1 determined the number of chances each student carried into the July drawing, with graduate students and seniors receiving four chances to a freshman’s one. Each undergraduate class was guaranteed 2,000 lottery winners, with at least 500 tickets going to grad students.
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