<p>Okay,</p>
<p>I need some help with housing sign up guys. I'll be a returning student. Basically, I'd RATHER live off-campus, but I can't afford it. I'm on full financial aid at Cornell. If I don't apply for housing, will Cornell give me the money they usually put toward room/board/meal plan and let me use it to rent my own apartment?</p>
<p>Yes, you will be given the cost of a double room on campus and standard meal plan to spend however you like for housing/food. That is probably what I will be doing since they completely screwed us rising juniors in room selection today. My block had the earliest timeslot and there was still NOTHING available in any new west campus dorms. I guess they allowed the in house lotteries to take the entire allotment for juniors/seniors.</p>
<p>Yup…I’m a rising junior and got screwed over bigtime. All that was left for me for my timeslot todat was program housing, and barely any rooms. Off-campus it is.</p>
<p>Good thing, however, is that an off-campus apartment costs way less than the cost of a double room and meal plan, so I’ll have a little spending money for my trouble I suppose, lol.</p>
<p>Whoa are you sure? I just checked:</p>
<p>Housing is around $7,000
Dining is $4,500</p>
<p>That’s $11,500 a year. Are you sure?</p>
<p>you wont save that much since off campus you got to pay for 12 months. i guess its better if you sublet it out but its kind of troublesome.</p>
<p>if you wont be living on campus cornell will take what you owe them minus any additional aid and then give you whatever is left over…if you are getting almost a full ride in grants then yes theoretically you would get 11,500…</p>
<p>do note that this process can take a few weeks/months into the semester and wont be available for you to pay your deposit or first month’s rent…</p>
<p>this is especially true of this year where financial aid wasnt available for even those living on campus…</p>
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<p>This is true for some…but there are many landlords that offer 10 month leases to students.</p>
<p>To the OP: you can also request additional financial aid to cover your rent, electric, heat (if applicable) and internet (but not cable TV). However…you can’t do this until the following academic year and you can only request it if your costs for 10 months are more than what Cornell charges for room + board.</p>
<p>I just wanted to say I have heard some awful things from current sophomores! it seems like there were basically no spaces. how unfortunate!
I (current freshman) got a spot on West next year and I intend to stay in that house from now on, since apparently that is an option.</p>
<p>I don’t think you are guaranteed your spot again in West, but you can apply for an in-house lottery in the fall and I think they usually allow about 1/3 of the rooms to go to these kids. Also, as a sophomore I can definitely say that it was damn near impossible to get housing, but then at random times a bunch of housing would be come available. For instance, at 7pm on the rising juniors day there was nothing but program housing, then all of a sudden at 8pm a ton of cascadilla rooms came online. Also, around 3:30 during the rising sophomores day a bunch of keeton rooms came online, but most people didn’t think to check then.</p>
<p>as a student on a full ride you have to consider the fact that financial aid will not be available for you as soon as you get on campus (takes weeks for a refund) </p>
<p>so you will probably have to put a deposit out of pocket…</p>
<p>i’m most definite that you will have housing options on campus…</p>
<p>@stm167</p>
<p>Hopefully somethings open up tomorrow. Right now there is absolutely nothing available besides ujamaa house. What happens if nothing is available but am gurantee housing as a rising sophmore</p>
<p>I didn’t mean I wanted the same spot again, but I do want to get into the in-house thing if possible.</p>