WANTED: housing in West

<p>My roommate and I are hoping to find rooms in West. If you want to give up your housing contract on West Campus, please email me.</p>

<p>not so easy/great to live off-campus now is it? :slight_smile: </p>

<p>did you try living off campus and plans didnt work out OR are you stuck on north and want out?</p>

<p>Maybe they just wanted to live on West, and had a tough time with the housing lottery, which seems to have happened to many students this year. :(</p>

<p>“Maybe they just wanted to live on West, and had a tough time with the housing lottery, which seems to have happened to many students this year.”</p>

<p>The housing lottery was brutal this year. If anyone is interested in backing out of their housing contract I’m very interested in actually having a place to stay next semester, so please message me or something.</p>

<p>Has anyone had any experience with the housing waitlist before? what is the chance of a single person getting ANY sort of room in Cascadilla, Sheldon or West through the waitlist?</p>

<p>well the problem is that last year house 5 and keeton were added into the mix…so i dont know how the housing people assigned rooms BUT </p>

<p>many waitlist people did get rooms on west BUT</p>

<p>this year since everything on west is mostly full i think anyone on the housing waitlist will just be assigned wherever this room…some might get lucky and get singles and others might be paired with random roomates…</p>

<p>Does anybody have any experience with the guaranteed waitlist? I know that I would be given first priority, but what difference would that make? To the OP, people cannot just cancel their contract. A person has to either study abroad or not return next year in order to do so. Thus, you might be in a bind.</p>

<p>“some might get lucky and get singles and others might be paired with random roomates…”</p>

<p>I wouldn’t mind having a random roommate, or a double/triple for that matter, as long as it’s on West… Would my chances of getting any sort of room on west with any roommate be good from the waitlist? </p>

<p>So out of curiosity, how does Cornell guarantee housing for all freshmen and sophomores? Do they just make sure that enough rooms for all 6000 people in the freshmen/sophomore classes are not taken until the freshmen/sophomore have a chance to sign up for them? Because not every sophomore would plan on living on campus, plenty join a fraternity/sorority, live off campus, etc, but in the event that many do, Cornell needs to make sure that housing is guaranteed for them, right?</p>

<p>I ask because I will be a junior next year, and I’m wondering how rooms open up for upperclassmen on the housing waitlist… I’m just wondering if my chances of obtaining any sort of on-campus housing on West or in Cascadilla/Sheldon w/ any random roommate is good…</p>

<p>I would be satisfied with anything as long as it isn’t on North haha.</p>

<p>lottery was horrible this year :(</p>

<p>I had a timeslot on the *first day *and by 6 pm, almost all of West was gone. I got shafted into the gothics.</p>

<p>the gothics is west…what you talkin 'bout willis D:</p>

<p>I said “almost” dood- as in Keeton, Bethe, etc. were gone but the gothics remained. Oh and btw, does anyone have the scoop on Founders Hall? Amenities? Furnishings? Social life?</p>

<p>lol u sure you didnt edit that? P: </p>

<p>i could have sworn i didnt see “all of” although it is 4am rofl</p>

<p>i think the rooms in the gothics are similar to the rooms in the low rises on north…</p>

<p>i’d say gothic rooms are bigger…and probably easier to get in and out of…the only problem is lack of dining hall in the building but no different than north…</p>

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Don’t you mean you could’ve sworn you didn’t see “almost”? :)</p>

<p>D: 10charrrr</p>

<p>I never lived in the Gothics, but they seem like nice buildings. They have that old, rustic feel to them that invokes visions of Newton and a quill pen. They seem to be nice buildings and now with CUTV, television is available in them (wasn’t previously).</p>

<p>It’s a negligible walk to dining and there’s a small computer lab in McFadden (I think). The new dorms are very clean and nice and have many bathrooms (I lived there the first semester they were open), but the Gothics should be nice as well (especially if you got a single).</p>

<p>Oh and I’m not sure about currently, but when I was at Cornell, every single year I got a room change during the summer. People drop their room assignments very frequently. One year I was 9th on the waiting list for a single on West and in two days, I had my single! Now, I imagine it’s incredibly difficult to procure a single b/c of in-house lotteries, but getting a room on West shouldn’t be the hardest thing to accomplish.</p>

<p>Go into language houses. You have to do nothing for getting rooms.</p>

<p>How does the housing lottery work? Is it completely random or do freshman have a chance at their preference? Personally I would like to live in Dickson or Donlon I hear they aren’t the newest, but they are the largest and most social dorms and people love it there.</p>

<p>no, prospective freshmen have no say in where they will live.</p>