<p>Are there bathrooms within the room? or do you share it with other people? if so is it shared across like four people, or a large section of a dorm?</p>
<p>Bathrooms are shared within a suite or a hall.</p>
<p>Sometimes, people who ask the question Fredrick42 asked have special reasons for asking and for preferring one type of bathroom arrangement over another.</p>
<p>For example, a student with inflammatory bowel disease, who may need to use the bathroom frequently and urgently, might be better off in a hall-style dorm, where the bathrooms are large and it’s easy to find an unoccupied toilet, rather than a suite-style dorm, where as many as six people may share a small bathroom and have to wait for each other to finish using it.</p>
<p>On the other hand, a transgender student might be happier in a suite, where that one small bathroom provides privacy, rather than in a hall-style dorm, where the large, less private bathrooms are much less private (and are usually designated for the use of people of one gender only). </p>
<p>You cannot specifically request hall-style versus suite-style housing on the Cornell housing request form, but if a special situation applies to you, you can certainly contact Cornell’s housing department and discuss it.</p>
<p>this might not be relevant to the OP, but it might interest some to know that there are usually at least some mixed-gender bathrooms, even in Balch.</p>
<p>Are there any mixed-gender bathrooms anywhere other than Balch?</p>
<p>The rationale for the mixed-gender bathrooms in Balch is that it’s necessary to have a few bathrooms available for the use of male guests, but if these bathrooms were reserved for men only, it would decrease the number of bathrooms available to the residents. </p>
<p>But in a co-ed dorm, this rationale for mixed-gender bathrooms doesn’t exist. Do any of the co-ed dorms have them?</p>
<p>When we visited Donlon, I’m pretty sure they said they had both co-ed and single-gender bathrooms.</p>
<p>That sounds like a good idea for a big corridor dorm like Donlon. A lot of kids want to use the nearest bathroom and couldn’t care less about the gender of the person in the next shower. But it’s nice to keep a few single-sex bathrooms for those who do care.</p>
<p>It’s not that way in all the dorms, though. My daughter lived in Cascadilla as a sophomore. Each floor was co-ed, but the bathrooms were single-sex. There were two large bathrooms for each gender on each floor.</p>
<p>in the new west campus houses there are three bathrooms along a corridor (at least the ones I’ve investigated) and there is one mixed-sex one, one male one, and one female one. the signs were just laminated paper on the doors, so I am not sure how permanent that is. </p>
<p>in Lyon Hall, which is an all-women dorm on west campus, there were not mixed-sex bathrooms that I could find.</p>
<p>*When we visited Donlon, I’m pretty sure they said they had both co-ed and single-gender bathrooms. *</p>
<p>I lived in Donlon this past year and I can confirm that. My room was closer to the so-called “co-ed” bathroom (soon being called “genderless” supposedly), yet I still took showers in the boy’s bathroom early in the year. I eventually decided that there was little point in not using the co-ed bathroom and took showers there whenever it wasn’t crowded. Now of course, there were definitely folks that went to single-sex bathrooms despite being closer to the co-ed bathroom, but that was their decision. No one really cared as far as I can tell.</p>