<p>Number 1 is...if I've got 7:40 on day 1 and Sophmores go first (Im a sophmore) does that mean I should pretty much get my pick? It starts at 4. There should still be rooms left in the newer dorms right? </p>
<p>My second question is, what is the optimal one? I've heard Becker come up before and some site listed Keeton. Are these the two that are the nicest? I come from Mews this year, and this dorm was pretty great I gotta say. </p>
<p>And lastly, I dunno if I want a single or a double. I didnt get along too well with my roomate this year (Well didnt NOT get along just nothing in common really, didnt talk much) and and I did meet people who I was friendly with, but never anybody that was really a CLOSE friend this year, and some people are doing frats, etc...so I dont really have anybody to room with. Would it be best to take a random roomate or is that generally not done by sophmore year? I wouldnt mind having a single though I would have liked to have had a compatitble roomate at some point since it seems like it'd be pretty cool. Is it best to just go for single at this point though?</p>
<p>At 7:40 PM, even if Sophomores go first, you will have nearly no chance of getting a place on West except the Gothics.
In all the years, they divided the number of open rooms between the classes. Just being the first class to choose does not raise the limit on the number of open rooms saved for your class.</p>
<p>wow are you kidding? That really sucks IMO. And the gothics are pretty bad right? I cant believe that they only have oncampus housing for 1/4 of the sophmores. I dont wannt to live in collegetown…one of the reasons I chose Cornell was because i liked the more secluded campus feel it had.</p>
<p>if you’re a Cornell student (maybe you have to be in the housing lottery?) you can sign in and check out room availability. it’s not up-to-the-minute but it says when it was updated at the top. more info than we’ve ever had in past years!</p>
<p>So turns out Cornell housing sucks. For an ivy league school you’d think they’d try to accomodate their students more. Im in a double in Baker Tower now…I really didnt want to be in the Gothics…I optimally wanted to be in a single in a suite or something. But at 7:40 (so a little over 1/4 into the selection process) there were no singles left at all besides stuff like University Avenue/other off-campus type places, and no rooms at ALL in any of the five newer houses, so now Im stuck in a gothic double. </p>
<p>Yeah, and this is 1/4 in meaning it’s pretty much impossible to get anything good. This is absolutely ridiculous IMO.</p>
<p>^ Doesn’t mean Guaranteed “I’ll live in the cool West Campus buildings”</p>
<p>@gnrmjd: The Gothics are not that great unless you like the old style kind of thing. Collegetown, like Sheldon is not bad at all. You should still be able to get a room in Sheldon.</p>
<p>Jokingly, if you want the secluded feeling, Schuyler is probably the best way to go.</p>
<p>I dunno I just wanted to live on campus, as I really like the campus feel that Cornell has, it was what drew me there in the first place. And even looking at that availability list from 6:20, there’s ALREADY almost NOTHING left at all on campus, and that is about 1/6 of the way through the selection process. I guess that if you’re day two you just go search for apartments? I dunno this is really ridiculous IMO and for a school like Cornell especially.</p>
<p>If I remembered correctly, it was like 20-100 slots are opened per 20 minutes, and each slot can room with 4 other people. So it’s like 100-500 places being filled each 20 minutes.
The problem with housing is that they have such a huge entering class size each year.
I don’t like how I looked at UPenn and found out that housing is a lot more guaranteed for all 4 years than Cornell.
Of course, the good citizens of Ithaca have found ways to accommodate the leftover students. Plus, living in an apartment would be cheaper anywhere like Gun Hill is better, compared to having to spend like $7800 a year (about). That’s like $625 a month for 8 months -,-. In an apartment, you could get like $400-625 with your group of friends for 12 months and have the option to sublease and rent out your apartment for the summer months, making money back.</p>
<p>At least my room is big (I think?) like 250 square feet it said for a double…is that considered big? Don’t know much about area <_<…but yeah it also has a sloped ceiling apparently…Still don’t want a gothic though</p>
<p>@ gnmrjd: I was in the exact same boat. I went in my time slot 7:00pm and my jaw dropped when I realized all of the main houses were completely full and there were NO singles whatsoever in the houses or the gothics. I got stuck in a double in baker too. I thought my time was at least halfway decent. Oh well I’m getting over it because a lot of my friends have it a lot worse, they couldn’t get onto West campus at all. So much for sophomores having priority.</p>
<p>I was surprised too; I figured I’d get something on West for sure. I wanted to get a single but I don’t want to live a mile away from the engineering campus(again). I suppose I’ll settle for a double in Cascadilla (couldn’t even get on the first floor :/).</p>
<p>so much for sophomores have preference is right. that has got to be disappointing. I wonder if they’ll even run the housing lottery for the rising juniors and seniors, since we’re not guaranteed housing, and there will be 0 spots…it would just be a waste of everyone’s time. </p>
<p>also, I’d say 250 sq ft is decent for a double, you won’t be crowded on top of each other unless they give you ridiculous amounts of furniture. for a point of reference, other doubles lurking around the gothics are <200 sq ft.
also, I think the gothics are great…I’ve lived in one, and I really don’t see anything bad about it.</p>