<p>ok guys i didnt get to visit cornell dorms. can someone plz explain a quad and a townhouse to me? the booklet/the website did not make it clear at all. Im leaning towards a double, but ive heard that a double and a quad are quite similar</p>
<p>If you can afford it go single. I would never live in any other kind of room. In fact, I don’t know a single person that would take a double over single if it weren’t for the price difference (and even then most still want a single).</p>
<p>i lived in and have experienced (through friends) i think every single dorm.</p>
<p>I lived in the townhouses and I really didn’t like it. Search my old posts, I think I have a whole description of my experience, but briefly, townhouses are separate, big suites basically. you have a living room kitchen and two doubles, one bathroom. they’re pretty old. the positive is also a negative to some, and that is bc it’s pretty isolated. some people want quiet but i like being around people. people in the townhouses don’t really talk to one another depending on your quad (A B C D etc). and if you’re a transfer, its @ north campus, so it’s just freshman and other townhouse kids.</p>
<p>I, personally, didn’t like it but I wouldn’t go out of my way to avoid it. There’s much worse out there.</p>
<p>At the same time there were really big positives. as a tranfer, people want to meet others. i met my best friends at cornell there. it’s across the street from the best dining hall at cornell. you don’t have to walk anywhere bc the bus takes u from there to ur classes @ central.</p>
<p>as for a quad, i’m assuming you mean a room with 4 people…depends what building, but if you’re a freshman, those things are pretty tiny (on purposes; so that you can meet more people). from what i’ve noticed, people make a vast majority of their permanent friends, cliques, etc, in freshman year through whatever dorm they’re in.</p>
<p>if you want more info on the townhouses flip through my stuff.</p>
<p>you def do not want a quad… usually that means two bunk beds in a small room. there are some quads in donlon that are 2 doubles with a common room in between them, but there are very few of those available. it is not worth requesting a quad. </p>
<p>basically after freshman year, everyone i know wish they had a single just for the privacy aspect. if you request a single, you are not guaranteed one because more people request a single than available. you will likely be in dickson if you get one, but mews and court/kay/bauer have thhem too. it is not hard to meet people in a single, literally everyone has their doors open and wants to meet everyone the first few months of school. </p>
<p>cornells diversity is a blessing and an issue when it comes to housing because you can end up being roommates with someone who is completely opposite of you very easily. this can be a good “learning experience”, but i personally think the learning experience is overrated. if you want to meet diverse people, join a club.</p>
<p>townhouses can be isolated, but they can also be really nice. i know a lot of athletes are up there usually. my friends who had a townhouse requested that they live together, which worked out well since it is more isolated. there are two doubles, one full bathroom and then a whole bottom floor living room and kitchen. it is great if you like to throw parties, or like a lot of space/cooking etc.</p>
<p>You can’t choose whether you get a single/double/triple anyway (many people who request doubles get singles - I was one - and others who request singles get doubles). Nor can you choose the house you’re placed in unless you request a specialty house (JAM, Ujamaa, etc.)</p>
<p>What would happen if I request a roommate, but still choose single as my first choice? Which supersedes the other? I’d prefer to live in a single but my second choice would be to room with someone preselected in a double.</p>
<p>If you want to live with someone you have to request that on your housing form - you can’t wait to see whether you get a single, and then request.</p>
<p>I’d ask for the single on your housing form. If you’re really desperate you can call and say you have social issues or something (sounds strange, I know, but I’ve heard of this actually working, and there are so many cases of illogical room assignations - people who ask for singles get doubles while people who ask for doubles get singles - that you may want to try something unusual, depending on how badly you want a single).</p>
<p>Besides, living with someone you already know - IMO - takes away some of the novelty of the freshman experience. It’s scarier, I know, but you’ll be able to meet with this person anyway…</p>