re #41: I agree, that is something any prospective transfer student, TO or not, should explore further and consider,if this situation is going to be an ongoing “:thing”.
It is not desirable, socially, to get to a new school where you know nobody and be shunted off campus from the get-go to fend for yourself. At Cornell or anyplace really.
Though I guess if you were placed in a house near campus with a lot of other new transfer students, that wouldn’t necessarily be bad. But I don’t know if that’s what they are doing.