<p>It’s not just as easy as “saying you have allergies”.</p>
<p>If you want special housing consideration based on medical reasons, you must apply to the Student Disability Services and have a note from your doctor to confirm your inability to be in a non-AC dorm.</p>
<p>Dennis - My son is serious about playing snare in the marching band and Cornell has the Ivy League’s only marching band. But on the band’s website, there seems to be more attention paid to pre-gaming and partying than to musicianship or performance. Would a serious band geek be likely to find the Big Red Marching Band fulfilling?</p>
<p>when I was there, Cornell was basically the only Ivy league team that had a marching band. It was kind of embarrassing, because at half time our guys would go out and do all that band stuff, with the formations, etc, and then the Brown or Columbia “marching band” would come out, run around, blow on some horn and start insulting us. Which seemed a lot more fun to me. But then I am not a band geek.</p>
<p>So yeah, they were really doing all that stuff, but of course I can’'t answer about musicianship, or whatever.</p>
<p>But back then they were using Mastodon pinkies for the drumsticks.</p>
<p>I think to a lot of people the non-marching band is actually more influential, because they play a role in rousing the troops at hockey games. Which would be the sport of choice for lots of people, I would say. If he can get into that, it would have to be lots of fun I imagine. It’s small though.</p>
<p>The thing is, football is not the big deal there that it is in a lot of other conferences. That’s where you’d typically hear the band strut their stuff. But that means you have to want to first actually go to the football games.</p>
<p>once you go MAC you neva go BACK</p>
<p>I would agree the Pep band (hockey games - smaller subset) is much more fun and also much more traditionally musically inclined.</p>