<p>I decided last minute to attend Cornell, so now I'm wondering about my off-campus housing options. Any recommendations on places where I should or shouldn't live? Are there any popular locations where most students choose to live or is it kind of spread out?</p>
<p>I'd prefer to live in an area where there are other students, but I'm pretty much happy if I have a place to live and I'm somewhat close to campus.</p>
<p>collegetown is the place to be,
go on craigs list and find apartments in collegetown, or go on other websites for places around here.</p>
<p>stay away from gun hill and from ravenwood.</p>
<p>^ What’s wrong with Gun Hill and Ravenwood, if you don’t mind elaborating?</p>
<p>Yeah I took a look at craigslist/facebook awhile ago, but wasn’t really familiar with any of these areas (I mostly just visit campus). Most of the collegetown places I’ve found on Craigslist seem very close to campus, so that’s a huge plus.</p>
<p>I’m also curious what’s wrong with Gun Hill and Ravenwood, haha.</p>
<p>gun hill and ravenwood are probably far from campus…i havent heard anything too nasty about them…</p>
<p>google maps is your friend…</p>
<p>they’re not that far from campus, they’re pretty much directly below the west campus dorms.</p>
<p>Also would like to know what’s wrong with Gun Hill and Ravenwood x]</p>
<p>they’re far if you take into consideration that it’s all uphill (to get to classes) and it can get pretty cold during the winter and winter lasts for a while.</p>
<p>theyre just far away from everything. Most fun stuff happens at frats, at collegetown, or on campus (IE, willard straight, bartels, etc). Gun Hill and Raven wood are just far away from everything.</p>
<p>Aside from that, do you know anything about the quality of the apartments/managment/etc?</p>
<p>Try collegetown or other apartment complexes near West Campus.</p>
<p>I have a friend in ravenwood. It is about a 8 min walk to baker flagpole from his place, and then another 12 min or so to the ag quad where he takes a few classes, and its all up hill. As far as management goes, I dunno, haven’t heard anything bad. I’ve been to his place and it was par for course as far as student apts go. Really though, it is far away. You will find yourself saying “I would do [this experience], but its just too far away, and im lazy, and its cold outside” and in college the most valuable thing to me is making the most out of my time here.</p>
<p>Hmm, thanks, I’ll def. keep that in mind.</p>
<p>ravenwood is not that far away. it’s some 100-200 yards away from alice h cook house depending on which section you live in (A, B, C, D, E). but it’s definitely not 8 min to baker flagpole, or he must have slipped on a banana peel and stayed lying for 4 min, lol.</p>
<p>A more important question to the OP would be: why are you trying to live off campus for your first year? It’s very bad idea.</p>
<p>inst the OP a transfer?</p>
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<p>Which is why I said “first year”</p>
<p>My original plan was to live on campus for my first year, but I was accepted as a spring admit and actually deferred my admission to Fall. So I originally missed the 30 day deadline and now I don’t have guaranteed housing. The housing office told me to look for another place just in case there are no available spots on campus, so here I am!</p>
<p>I see, that sucks. Well ideally you’d want to live with other transfers on campus but if you’re forced to live off, then you should look for available single bedrooms in collegetown (I’m assuming you don’t know anyone at Cornell yet). The Daily Sun usually has a classified section with available apartments/rooms for rent. </p>
<p>You definitely should consider getting a fall sublet for a room in ctown, which would be considerably cheaper; this would also give you the option of living on campus in spring if something opens up due to you not being constrained by a full year lease.</p>
<p>i agree with caillebotte</p>