For many undergraduates, the housing lottery is a nerve-wracking, nail-biting, I-can’t-live-anywhere-with-3,943 kind of experience.

But for Rohini Vajaria, it was a formality.

Vajaria, a Weinberg freshman, was recently elected vice president of Allison Hall and is guaranteed a place there Fall Quarter. She just had to draw a number — any number — to secure her spot.

And she drew No. 1.

“I was in shock,” Vajaria said. “I looked at my ticket, and they say you’re supposed to look at the last four digits — and it just said ‘0001.’”

Confused, Vajaria handed the number to one of the lottery assistants.

“I gave it to the lady, and her jaw dropped,” she said. “I think she was more excited than I was.”

But entry into Allison is worth getting excited about for many undergraduates — last year, the highest number to guarantee women a place there was 650. For men, the number was 743.

Despite her good fortune, Vajaria said she has no plans for profit.

“People have come up to me and said, ‘Are you going to sell it?’ But I really don’t think I can,” she said. “They’re pretty strict about (selling numbers).”

Vajaria said she sympathizes with less fortunate students but that inequality would exist in any housing system.

“It makes a lot of people unhappy, but it makes the same amount of people happy too,” she said. “It’s hard either way.”