<p>We already did the tour, but want to visit this weekend again and maybe get a look at the cafeterian/dining hall and if not asking too much a dorm. Anyone know anyone kind enough to give us 20 min's or less? My son has to decide this weekend on whether to apply ED, so can't wait until the end of the month to do a lunch through admissions.</p>
<p>Please!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>If you can't do it, but have some ideas, please reply.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>This weekend is probably the worst possible weekend for most people in terms of time. It's both parents weekend and next week is the biggest midterm week. Good luck.</p>
<p>Ok, that is understandable. We'll just see what we can. Thanks for letting me know.</p>
<p>The other thing to look out for if you do find someone, it's possible that they're one of those people who party too much and study too little, and might not make the best representative of Columbia. If you want to see the dinning hall, you may be able to just walk in, although I'm not absolutely sure. Another thing that might be helpful is if your son is going to play for any of Columbia's sports teams. Since the beginning of the semester I've seen people I know (who are on sports teams) being hosts to recruits. And in terms of seeing a dorm room, there are quite a few photos online, although they don't really show what the dorm room looks like after busy college kids with no time to vacuum have lived in them. Basically, the rooms in Carmen are big but not aesthetically pleasing (Carmen's the party dorm), I haven't been in John Jay, and Furnald is like a hotel room but small.</p>
<p>Just go stand in the lobby of the dorms and ask a student who looks happy rather than busy/stressed if he/she can quickly show you his room/suite.</p>
<p>Sounds like a plan. What dorm is a good one for a perspective student to check out?</p>
<p>Carmen and John Jay are the two main first year dorms.</p>
<p>ok, thanks for your responses. We are coming this afternoon after 3pm sometime. If there are any other recommendations, or if someone suddenly has 30 min's to spare, please let me know. Thanks.</p>
<p>Furnald is 1/2 freshmen and 1/2 sophomores. It's one of the nicest dorms on campus. In spite of what some people say, it's as social as you make it. It's definitely a contrast from Carmen and John Jay.</p>
<p>So juniors and seniors dorm outside of the main campus but in the nearby area?</p>
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<p>Sophomores, juniors and seniors dorm in East Campus and in the surrounding areas mostly spanning from 113th to 120th streets and have the option of living in barnard housing which spans from 110th to 122nd street. The only exception is the living learning center (hartley and wallach) which are attached to john jay and have (few) upperclassmen and a lucky group of about 100 Sophomores in Furnald.</p>
<p>As for Furnald.....you can get the best insight on it as freshman housing from the sophomores who live there since they will be able to compare living in furnald to living in JJ or carmen. As someone who lived in both JJ and furnald i can honestly say that comparatively furnald is very antisocial....you will have to try much much harder to get to know people ...i honestly felt sorry for the freshmen living on my floor because i dont think they got the full experience of freshman year.</p>
<p>I think that a large part of the reason why Furnald gets labeled as antisocial is that the majority of freshmen who live in Furnald are more interested in studying than partying. Because in Furnald you can usually study in your dorm, while in Carmen you usually need to go to Butler (library) to study.</p>
<p>There are some parties in Furnald, though. Although they are nowhere near as crazy/out of hand as the ones in Carmen.</p>
<p>And I think that more than half of Furnald is freshmen. The few sophmores who get to live there are very lucky, and are usually really nice to the freshmen, probably because they're just so thankful to be in Furnald.</p>
<p>Update of visit: it was very successful! A really nice freshman showed my son his dorm at John Jay. We also looked at John Jay Dining Hall and saw the beautiful Chapel (while Mass was ending). We spent a few hours there and really took a lot in, spoke to plenty of students, etc. My son is busy working on the Columbia ED application now. Now, it is time to pray! Thanks to everyone.</p>
<p>Thanks for the update. Glad it worked out. Good luck!</p>
<p>Hey, fingers crossed here, Cailg! Glad the visit went so well.</p>