<p>My DD was accepted ED to AEM. I understand she has an option to ask for a specific campus dorm. She would really like to have AC in her room.</p>
<p>Any recomendation from current students/alumni would be highly appreciated.
Thank you in advance.</p>
<p>Current student here. Court Kay Bauer and Mews are the newest so I recommend those.</p>
<p>You don’t get to ask for a specific dorm unless you want to live in Balch (all girls). I obviously have no personal experience living in Balch, but have quite a few friends who were there. No one I knew requested to be there, but were instead placed there. Ultimately they enjoyed living in Balch because they made friends there. The rooms themselves aren’t particularly “nice” but they are probably the largest rooms on North Campus. </p>
<p>As for air conditioning, some of the newer dorms have it, but it’s not like rooms get individual temperature control. The only way you can get placed there is if you can medically prove you have some significant allergy, otherwise it’s random. Those dorms are Court-Kay-Bauer and Mews. I lived in CKB my freshman year and enjoyed it. The rooms are nicer.</p>
<p>As for my personal rankings of the dorms, I’d probably go:
<p>D1 had a single at Dickson. It was small, but very nice. She had a sloping roof with a window seat. She really enjoyed her single at Dickson.</p>
<p>Thank you so much for all info and advice. I’ll pass it over to my DD.</p>
<p>How does the process work for incoming freshmen anyway? She is my first one to go to college, and my and my DH personal experience is not really helpful since both of us got our degrees overseas. All my relatives and friends went to college as commuters. So we are really new to the process and have no prior experience whatsoever.</p>
<p>In May or June your kid will be asked to fill out her housing contract. She will let them know what kind of housing she wants - single sex, single room, and some roommate preference information. Soon after that she will get her room assignment. She will also get to decide what kind of meal plan she wants. Cornell offers many single rooms with a little bit higher rate. If you could afford it, I would strongly suggest for her to get one.</p>
<p>If you haven’t done so already, try to get hotel rooms for the moving weekend. Ithaca is a small town. On that weekend there will be close to 3000 families there, so hotel rooms will go fast. It is the case for the parents weekend. Move in day for 2012 is Aug 17, so you would want to be there on the 16th just in case your kid has early move in time on Fri.</p>
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<p>You will get a to do list for incoming freshmen in May. It is very straight forward. The only tricky thing is the health insurance waiver. You need to have evidence of insurance or they will charge it to your bursar.</p>
<p>Also, be aware that much of the critical info comes to your chid by email. You will not get a copy (even of the tuition bill until you set up the system to send duplicates to you). Cornell expects the student to take charge of all this stuff. Some kids are on top of it, others are not. It’s a good idea to ask on a regular basis what has come into the in box. We learned this the hard way last year, and DS had a friend whose parents never saw the tuition bill until it was already late.</p>
<p>Thanks, Redshoes and Oldfort. </p>
<p>How do I set up a system for duplicate notifications to be copies end to my e-mail address?</p>
<p>And what would be considered as a proof of health insurance? Do I need to request a letter from my insurance company ahead of time?</p>
<p>Sorry for asking more questions, but every post just makes me understand that the process is more complex that I thought, and there are possible problems that I would like to avoid.</p>
<p>Thanks again for your help.</p>
<p>I don’t know if you can get duplicates of everything, but you could ask your daughter to forward anything that comes from Cornell. You need to start paying attention in May or June. The health form was due on June 15 last year, I think, so make sure she has a physical before that and make sure she’s had all the shots she needs. Meningitis is one that’s required that some teenagers haven’t had.
You can definitely get duplicates of the bills. Your daughter has to initiate the process, and then you set up your own user name and password. You may not be able to do this before July or so. She needs her Cornell ID# to set it up and you probably don’t have that yet. There is more information on the Cornell Bursar website.
For insurance, search the Cornell website for health insurance requirements. They have a list of what your insurance must cover. I compared our insurance co. website with the Cornell requirements, and then, because I was still not totally sure, called our insurance carrier with a few questions. I think there’s a waiver or something which will ensure you don’t get billed for the Cornell insurance. Again, I wouldn’t do this til the summer because they might change their requirements between now and then.</p>
<p>You may want to pop over to the Parent Forum sometimes. There is a thread about what to buy for a dorm.</p>
<p>Health insurance - you will do it online. Cornell will provide you with a link for you to fill out all necessary info.</p>
<p>You will be able to sign up for a prent account so you could get notification for bursar, and security notification sometimes.</p>
<p>Under FERMA you may not have access to your kid’s academic or health information. You could get your kid to sign a waiver to give you access.</p>
<p>Cornell also has a payment plan which would allow you to pay over 10 or 12 months with an upfront fee of $50 or $75.</p>
<p>In April or May you D will get NetID. After she activates that, then she will be to do a lot of things we have discussed here.</p>
<p>cross posted with redshoes.</p>
<p>Our freshman son has a single in Mews. He has been very pleased, and it seems to be a nice living situation. FWIW, at the housing meeting during first year parents’ weekend, there were a few complaints from parents about some of the older dorms. They said their kids, mostly daughters, had complained about them being dirty and run down – and one had complained about mold. The administration did seem sensitive to their concerns and wanted to speak with them personally after the general session. In any case, I guess our son lucked out!</p>
<p>My D is in one of the high rises. Although she likes it, they are regarded as not the most desirable of dorms.</p>
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<p>Not at all. It’s literally a 2 min walk to RPCC. Sure, they’re not near as the other ones are to central but they are certainly not isolated in the least.</p>
<p>Hi, everyone.</p>
<p>I’ve been reading on Cornell forum that the sign in for housing will open on March 29th.</p>
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<p>So, it’s pretty close, but I don’t believe my DD has received any communication from Cornell about this, and she was accepted ED. How does she sign up?</p>
<p>Should she, or I, contact the school? </p>
<p>Please advice.</p>
<p>You should get a message about it soon. She’ll basically fill out a preference and personality survey that will match her to a dorm and possibly roommate (assuming she doesn’t specifically choose someone to go with). The only dorms she would be able to specifically pick are Balch (the all-female dorm), the Townhouses, and I think the program houses. As for AC, I think the newer dorms have them, but during the school year, the weather will very uncommonly call for cooling anyway.</p>
<p>As for AEM, I can talk a bit about that being an AEM major myself. For the first year, she will definitely have at least one class on the Ag Quad each semester. Relative to North Campus, the Ag Quad isn’t very far; but if she’s taking less AEM classes from the start like I did, she may be going to the more central areas of campus much more frequently.</p>
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<p>Thank you SO MUCH, Islander4. This is exactly what I was looking for.</p>
<p>One more question, please.</p>
<p>According to the FAQ “There is no storage space available in the residences for empty boxes, suitcases, trunks, and/or your personal belongings, except the space available in your room. Please be prepared to either take your empty boxes home or to recycle them.”</p>
<p>What do you use to bring in clothing? If there is no room to keep the suitcases, does it mean it’s better to have everything packed in the cardboard boxes, then just recycle the empty boxes?</p>
<p>How do you take stuff home then at the end of the year? Buy more boxes?</p>
<p>We will be driving my DD in August, and, I guess, will be picking her up at the end of the school year. So do we just take luggage back home with us and then bring it when we are ready to pick her up at the end of the school year?</p>
<p>I am trying to figure out the logistics here and would really appreciate any pointers.</p>
<p>We used large, heavy duty trash bags for our kid’s clothes and bedding. For nicer clothes, we left them on hangers and put trash bag over them, and just out them in the closet when we arrived. </p>
<p>You should label everything with your kid’s name, dorm and room number. There will be a lot of people to help you move and sometimes things could get misplaced. When D1 moved in few years ago, we didn’t have to do anything. They moved everything to her room in less than 30 min.</p>
<p>Thanks, Oldfort. This sounds perfect - I haven’t even thought of the trash bags. Brilliant idea! And I don’t need to worry about buying another piece of luggage.</p>
<p>All students have to leave the dorms before winter break as well. It’s not only the end of the year.</p>