Before freshman year, all incoming undergraduates are assigned to one of the twelve residential colleges by the individual college deans with two considerations in mind: compatibility and diversity.
When Samuel James Bridge, a longtime supporter of Harvard University, proposed to Harvard’s board of trustees that he commission a statue of John Harvard, the mission was assigned to Daniel Chester French.
If you were assigned to the group when you ranked only clean-shaven faces, to begin with, then you get significantly higher ratings for attractiveness to the bearded faces.