<p>Hi Monydad,</p>
<p>Cornell has many campus; Ithaca, Medical Schools in NYC and Qatar, Cornell Extension facilities all over NYS, however they are all part of one university with one university president, David Skorton. For instance, their new capital campaign is for the entire university (Medical School and Ithaca). Does Columbias $4 billion campaign include Barnard College? This is not a question to meant to incite - I truly dont know. Barnard College has a separate board of trustees, its own President, Judith Shapiro, etc. Students at Barnard are welcome to take classes at Columbia and visa versa. Its win win situation for women applicants, they have many more options to study at Columbia than men do. </p>
<p>Cornell freshmen cannot chose housing based on proximity to academic quads. Other than the program houses, which have nothing to do with what college you are enrolled in, the dorms are all heterogeneous with students represented in all 7 colleges. Sophomores usually chose to live with their friends. Very few juniors and seniors live in on-campus housing. </p>
<p>At Cornell, you are correct in that each college has its own admissions committee, but Doris Davis, the Associate Provost for Admissions & Enrollment oversees the entire universitys admissions and the individual colleges’ Deans of Admissions report to her. She was actually the Dean of Admissions at Barnard before coming to Cornell! Her oversight is more more extensive than an "administrative conduit in Day Hall:</p>