Cornell re-implements controversial "guaranteed transfer plan" ???

monydad
Mon, 25 Jun 2018 23:59:15 +0000

1. @blevine, Cornell has also changed doubles to triples in some freshman dorms- another indication that they have no more room. This may not happen every year, but it has happened. There have been a lot of posts and complaints about it, in the years when it has been particularly bad.

2. @Pattatty, I had read that renovations were planned to older dorms such as Balch and Dickson, but some of the new housing has to come in before they can do that work. So I guess that’s what you mean. I read that some of the new housing was planned to be available in 2020.
FWIW it’s not like they haven’t done anything. Housing improvements have happened. Three new dorms were built on North campus in 2000-2002 in connection with the initiative to put all freshmen on North Campus.The entire West Campus “U-Halls” dorm complex, where I lived freshman year, were torn down in 2003-2007 and replaced with the current “residential campus” buildings complex for upperclassmen housing. That was a huge project. There will always be worse-condition dorms, and some people will be stuck living in them… But on the bright side, some of the worst housing there has been considered to be the most fun, so hopefully your D won’t find it all bad.

If the suites you are referring to are in the high rises, FWIW those buildings might be in physically good condition, but on the other hand they were originally built as upperclassmen housing and are very anti-social. Or at least that was my experience, years ago.