<p>Best Dorms
Ones to stay away from...he he
Just general questions and advice...help future Cornellians out!!</p>
<p>I don’t think we get to choose dorms unless you want a program house or all women hall.</p>
<p>So how many people end up in doubles? My parents want me in a double but I really don’t want one… I want a single. If I put double as my first choice, and then single single single as my next 3 choices, does it seem likely I’ll get “stuck” in a single 
What if I just put single. Will my parents be able to look at it later on and see that I requested a single? haha.</p>
<p>No your parents shouldn’t be able to see that - I requested a single and mine don’t know lol. And you cannot choose your dorm unless you want a program house or Balch, so unless you want that it’s not worth stressing over.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, I know we can’t choose, I just would prefer to be in a single. I just wonder if say I ended up in a single, and they called the admissions office to see why, if they could look on my app and say “well his first choice was a single…” I mean, I’ll be picking up the extra 1k on my student loans anyway, so i don’t see why they care, but whatever. Right now it’s double, single, single, single on my app, so maybe they’ll get the hint that I really want a single. haha.</p>
<p>I’ll change it to single though if I know my parents won’t be able to ever check, but idk.</p>
<p>i chose single and they gave me a double =(</p>
<p>hmm, im wondering about Balch. the idea of a co-ed dorm seems like woo! co-ed! at first but then you think about the common bathrooms and dirty, stinky, loud boys around and im betting living in balch would actually be a pretty good thing. anybody have any comments about Balch vs co-ed?</p>
<p>You’ll get differing opinions from the girls. From a guy’s perspective, I think Balch is pretty amazing. It’s clean, quiet, has good programming, big screen TV downstairs, there’s the Womyn’s Center where you can rent DVD’s, there’s a tutoring center where you can get feedback on essays and such, etc. I lived in Donlon, which is like the opposite of Balch and it was nowhere near as nice. For laidback chicks and girly girls, I think it’s a great place to live. I think the main complaints are from girls who like hanging out with guys all the time.</p>
<p>balch also has its own coffee shop with snacks and sandwiches 
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<p>balch along with risley are the closest to central campus…although risley is quite a bit aways from RPCC… </p>
<p>there are plenty of guys who spend their time in balch though they need to be escorted by a female at all times (RAs can write you up for this)</p>
<p>how about the townhouses? I noticed that we can choose a townhouse as an option first year.</p>
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<p>Yea, I’ve gotten in trouble for wandering around Balch trying to find the guy’s bathroom. Didn’t realize I needed my gf to hold my hand while I went to the bathroom. </p>
<p>Proximity to central campus and the cafe are two additional pluses.</p>
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<p>the townhouses are a pretty good community. and definitely a big plus if you like to party and hang out. the ample room gives plenty of room for freshman pong games. </p>
<p>they are dominated by transfers and jocks (both male and female) but are a good deal…and close enough to rpcc dining hall (closer than balch)</p>
<p>I chose a double but got a single. it seems there are a large number of singles, with Dickson and balch being primarily singles and each suite of people in high rise 5, jameson, court/kay/bauer and mews have a few singles too (1-3 in each maybe?)</p>
<p>if you plan on having hookups please request a single…</p>
<p>if you find yourself to be out of luck with the ladies/gentlemen…then please request a double…</p>
<p>i hate seeing/knowing of people getting sexiled out of their double rooms…especially when the roomate doing the sexiling requested a double…</p>
<p>what’s the deal with the quad option? Do these share their own bathroom? Are they made up of singles? </p>
<p>There’s no information about this on the site, nor does it say which houses have them. I just noticed it on the room preferences of the application.</p>
<p>most of the quads will be in the townhouses or in hasbrouck apartments…for these i think there’s 1 bathroom for 4 of you…</p>
<p>there might be some quads scattered in other places on campus…other quads who knows…</p>
<p>just wondering, on the housing for they give you a place to request, doubles, singles, quads, with four spaces. Could you put double for all four if you really want a double? or do you have to rank your choices. << for balch if it makes a difference.</p>
<p>balch actually has some of the sweetest rooms…even if they are triples or quads…</p>
<p>balch girls get a washroom in their rooms ^^</p>
<p>I think in donlon there are “quads” - 2 double rooms that have just pretty much beds and dressers on either side of another room with desks shared by 4 people. So it’s kind of like 3 rooms for 4 people, with the center room being shared, but I don’t think there are very many of them.</p>
<p>If i put quad down as my first choice and make my preference very lively and put background noise for everything do you think i’d get donlon? lol</p>
<p>I want a social dorm soo bad.</p>