Improve Algorithm to Assign Students w/o Preferences to Lab with Least Amount of Students

[andrew7li]

Say there are 2 students and 2 labs (Mon and Wed). If both of these students fill out the form with no preferences, the algorithm should ideally assign 1 student to Mon and 1 to Wed.

Say that there are multiple students now and that Mon lab has 20 people and Wed has 5 people. If two students fill out the form with no preferences, the algorithm should ideally assign both students to the Wed lab.

Unable to include screenshot – cannot find two people to test :(

[Hammad-Izhar]

So in general, for students who have submitted no preferences, we want to assign them to sections such that all of the lab sections are equally full?

[andrew7li]

Yes. Not sure if this is an actual requirement (check with Jenny on this), but equal distribution (so long as it honors the room capacity) would be ideal.