<p>To current Cornellians, what are the best dorms and dining halls in your opinion?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance</p>
<p>Becker is the best dorm, but it is west campus and all freshmen are put on north campus. I stayed in it this summer along with other people from summer college and we were the first to use it. It's more like a hotel than a dorm- with air conditioning, nice elevators, mostly singles, and tons of small bathrooms scattered throughout the floors. It's all carpeted too.</p>
<p>what about north campus- which are the good freshman coed dorms?</p>
<p>Yeah I was inquiring mainly about North Campus, but thanks for the input anyways Jason. So, to current Cornellians, what are the best dorms and dining halls on North?</p>
<p>Thanks again</p>
<p>I hear that DMC-Dickson is a good dorm on North campus.</p>
<p>I've ate at North Star once, and I thought the food was pretty good.</p>
<p>You cannot select your dorm unless you pick a program house. All program houses are architecturally identical. If you are a girl, you can select single sex housing and be put in Balch, which is a gorgeous building. You can also opt for a townhouse, which are removed from the freshman dorms a little (not too much) and aren't as social, but if you get a cool group you esentially have 4 kids living in an apartment with a kitchen and everything.</p>
<p>Like I said, other than that you can't pick your dorms, but for coeds, the chillest are probably dickson and donlon, the newest/nicest are court/bauer and mews, and the quirkiest (crazy artsy people) is risley--which I think you actually can choose). The other dorms are the high-rises and low-rises. I don't know much about them. Those are the options for freshmen.</p>
<p>Go to Undergraduate Housing: North Campus here <a href="http://housing.cornell.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://housing.cornell.edu/</a> to see more about the dorms. What you can't find out on this site, feel free to ask.</p>
<p>They wont put you in a townhouse unless you request to be in one right? Also- is requesting a single a bad idea? I only want a roommate if I'm gonna love her :/ Haha.</p>
<p>no you can get put in places you're not requested to be. some girls get put in balch who don't want to be there, guys accidently get put in all girls halls (this is rectified the first day lol), and doubles requesters get put in singles (even though singles are SOOO much better), and people who requested co-ed housing who get put in places like townhouses.</p>
<p>Out of curiosity, why are singles better than doubles? Or, conversely, why are doubles better than singles?</p>
<p>if we cannot request which dorm we get to be, what do we get to request?</p>
<p>Can we request:
A) the room type (single, double, etc)
B) roommate (if any)</p>
<p>Are there any other options we can request for?</p>
<p>I love my single. I like the privacy. I can study when I want, sleep when I want, have who I want over, etc. If you're a social person, I think a single would be best. I couldn't imagine living with a messy roomate and would be really ****ed to have to wake up early to a roomate's alarm, if I didn't have to. Dickson or Donlon are the most social dorms. Court is really quiet, from my experience. Jameson is set up in suites and is pretty chill. You can request the number of roomates, but won't necessarily get what you want. I requested a double and got a single, which I am very pleased with. You can request a roomate if you have someone in mind. There is a housing form, it asks if you like a social or studious environment, if you go to bed late at night or early, if you are neat or messy and a few other basic questions.</p>
<p>yeah. I don't remember exactly, but you can request:</p>
<p>room type: single double triple etc.
hall type: co ed, by floor, or by building
roommates (mutually, you can't request to stalk that cool kid from HS who got in by living with him if he hates you)</p>
<p>There is a compatibility questionaire too with (this is most of them):
neat or messy
early or late
social or studious environment
can you tolerate messiness
can you sleep with the light on
can you sleep with noise
can you work with noise</p>
<p>nothing is garunteed except for medical reasons. you could end up in a balch double if you request a coed single </p>
<p>Hmmm everyone seems to think I should go for a double just to see what it's like. I feel like a single is more my kind of thing though. If everyone in the dorm has a single everyone is more likely to hang out with each other right? And you'll be able to choose who you have over rather then being stuck with some crazy roommate who you don't get along with at all. So what are the pros/cons of single vs. double?</p>
<p>I really like my own space.. but I feel kinda antisocial whenever I say I want to be in a single.</p>
<p>Heheh, I was searching through CC's archive for this and found threads in which Sparticus and Spanks were the people asking questions. How freaky!</p>
<p>Anyhooo...
Cornell-Specific info:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=9718%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=9718</a>
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=18942%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=18942</a></p>
<p>General Dorm info:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=44888%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=44888</a>
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=63526%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=63526</a>
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=23520%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=23520</a></p>
<p>Sorry to bug you guys, but I have a question about the townhouses.</p>
<p>Oddly enough, my school was 3/3 for Early Decision applications to Cornell (normally maybe 1 person a year goes there), and another of my friends is going for RD who I think will have a great shot to get in...so I'm kinda liking the Townhouses. Can you request them or is that strictly luck of the draw? Also, I know that they are listed as doubles on the pricing sheet as the same price as a regular dorm ($6080), but can you request (mutually, of course) 3 roommates if you can ask for a townhouse?</p>
<p>Also, why would you say they are less social? It seems you could more easily have people over with a living room and kitchen. I also kind of like the idea, if I know all 3 of my roommates beforehand, of having a private bathroom and shower. And if you have been in townhouse bedrooms before, is there only one desk per 2 people? That's how it's laid out on the floorplans (<a href="http://housing.cornell.edu/townhouse_floorplans.asp)%5B/url%5D">http://housing.cornell.edu/townhouse_floorplans.asp)</a>.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I don't think you can't add roommates, only subtract (i.e. your roommate gets kicked out and you get a pimped single) Adding would be a fire hazard maybe. You can't adjust the price I don't think if that's what you're getting at. Either way, FA is adjusted to consider your housing costs, even if you live off campus. They are less social because there are four people in each townhouse, as opposed to like 100 people in a hall. It's easy to have friends over, but with 4 people living together, and your nearest people being "next door" it's just not as social.</p>
<p>No, there should be 1 desk per person.</p>
<p>Sparticus, I wasn't concerned with the price, I was more asking if you can request 3 roommates to get a townhouse...they are listed in the doubles category, so I wasn't sure if you could only ask for one roommate.</p>
<p>Spanks, which dorm are you in?</p>
<p>if you dont get to choose your dorm and its kinda random i shouldnt really worry about which dorm i get into right?</p>