<p>Hi, I searched for threads on the topic but many of them are outdated, especially considering that the Transfer Center appears to have been closed by now. </p>
<p>Looking at Cornell's campus life page is daunting and leaves me with more questions than answers, so I'm wondering if any current students can tell me what the situation is for transfer housing. For instance: how hard is it to get a single room, and will a single be far from campus? A single is not a deal breaker for me, but sometimes I sleep at a weird schedule and it's probably better to not interfere with someone else's work/sleep.</p>
<p>If you think it is a far better experience to live somewhere particular which is only doubles, I'll gladly take that advice too. </p>
<p>Yes...the Transfer Center was torn down in Spring 2007 and it was difficult to get a single in that building.</p>
<p>Starting in Fall 2008, incoming transfers will be housed in groups of 10 or so and dispersed throughout West Campus housing. West Campus is a 5-10 minute very uphill walk to Central Campus. </p>
<p>Personally...I think as a transfer it was nice to live in a double. My roomie is still a very close friend to this day and we both helped each other to adjust to our new lives at Cornell. I had friends who lived in singles, but they were either athletes or social recluses who did not end up socializing very well and didn't adjust well either.</p>
<p>no...groups of 10 spread out between the suites. I'm not familiar with the layout of the suite style dorms since I never lived in them...but I think each suite is a combination of singles and doubles.</p>
<p>I've partied inside a suite in Becker. Pretty nice set up in my opinion. It's basically like a hallway with a few bedrooms on each side and a bathroom and at the end of the hallway is the common room where you can have gatherings and such. From an outsider's perspective, a suite is pretty cool. However, I don't know what it's like having 6 or 7 suitemates instead of just 1 roomate.</p>
<p>BTW: You build Thighs of Steel walking up Libe Slope from West Campus.</p>
<p>Carl Becker House, right? I believe I would apply to live in West campus (although that hill is huge), since it's closer to the Engineering Quad. I've been inside the Main Wing of Alice Cook House. I really liked the architecture and ambiance, but the "towers" look completely different. Do you know someplace I can find interior pictures of the rooms/halls in the towers? By the way, I'm going by what this</a> page says.</p>
<p>Do you know if the five west campus houses are open or going to be opened by Fall 2008? Currently I only see three on the website.</p>
<p>I'm not too familiar w/ West Campus housing since I lived off campus the last two years. Maybe someone else can help you out in that regard.</p>
<p>I know that Alice Cook and Becker are open in full force (they were being built when I lived on West my sophomore year). The Noyes Community Center was rebuilt entirely and reopened last year. </p>
<p>It's easy to request a single...you just indicate that on your housing application. Will you get a single? Can't really say for sure...I submitted my application a week after being accepted and requested a single...got a double and it was the smallest double on my floor :-)</p>
<p>No...Hasbrouck is not an option for transfers this year. All transfers will be housed on West Campus with the upperclassmen.</p>
<p>dewdrop87, sorry for all these questions, but how does Cornell match roommates (transfer or not)? At my current school, they actually did a personality test and and you could pick-and-choose potential roommates based on % similarity... haha I have a feeling that Cornell doesn't do that!</p>
<p>you will be housed with fellow transfers. you will fill out a questionnaire that asks you about you sleep/study/social habits and supposedly match you with a roomie based on this. </p>
<p>I highly doubt they actually use that info....given the girl who was my roomie when I came to Cornell :-) We were total opposites...but now best friends :-)</p>
<p>I think housing departments really like to have their fun. My friend from HS who transferred to a school in Buffalo last semester was matched with a student who shared his name: Quang. Can't imagine that was a coincidence.</p>
<p>Depending on which building you will be in on West, the number of transfers you will be blocked will be different. In House 5, the entire first floor will be transfers, about 15 in 14 South, 2 or 3 groups of 15 in the Gothics. </p>
<p>The RA staff on West will be 90% old transfers so new transfers will be in good hands.</p>
<p>House 4 (Keeton House) will be ready in Fall 2008. I don't think House 5 will be ready until 2009 but that is still ahead of schedule as it wasn't supposed to open until Fall 2010.</p>
<p>House 4 and 5 will both be open in Fall of 2008. House 5 will be open just not under the house system. It will be a traditional residential hall for the first year, then become a house in fall of 2009. I believe couple of administrators already got tours of the new place this past week.</p>