<p>They give so little information about both of them on the website.</p>
<p>Please give me your own opinions for a transfer student.</p>
<p>amount of students? co-ed? environment? location?</p>
<p>I’m an AEM student.</p>
<p>112 Edgemoor is the smallest of Cornell’s residence halls, housing 12 transfer and upperlevel continuing students. It is situated in a residential neighborhood on the southwest campus, close to Cascadilla Gorge and Collegetown.</p>
<p>Edgemoor’s mailboxes/service desk are in Cascadilla, which has to be a pain in the backside for Edgemoor residents because it’s a long walk from one building to the other.</p>
<p>Other than that, I know nothing about Edgemoor.</p>
<p>My daughter lives in Cascadilla. It’s a large (roughly 400 people, all sophomores and above), co-ed, traditional corridor-style dorm. There is no particular rationale to the assignment of men and women to rooms (except, of course, that if you are in a double, your roommate will be of the same sex that you are). You may find yourself with neighbors of the same sex or the opposite sex, and your RA may be either male or female. The bathrooms are not co-ed; each floor has both men’s and women’s facilities.</p>
<p>Cascadilla is in Collegetown, in a very convenient but noisy location. Some people love being in Collegetown because it’s where much of the action is; others hate it for exactly the same reason.</p>
<p>Most people who live in Cascadilla do not go on a meal plan because they prefer to have the freedom to eat in cash facilities on campus or to buy food in Collegetown, instead of having to eat primarily in the dining halls (most of which are nowhere near Cascadilla). Because you are in the ag school, and there are no meal plan dining halls on the ag quad, you probably don’t want to be on a meal plan anyhow. There are places where you can buy food for cash on campus that are a lot closer to your classes than the meal plan dining halls.</p>
<p>Some (not all) rooms in Cascadilla are so small that the beds have to be put on the highest setting with the dressers underneath them because otherwise it would be impossible to fit all the furniture in the room. Cascadilla does have nice lounge and study room facilities, though. And because the building (which is older than Cornell!) was renovated in the 1980s, it’s in pretty good condition. </p>
<p>For some reason – perhaps the proximity to the Asian restaurants and takeout places in Collegetown – Cascadilla is particularly popular with Asian students (both Asian-Americans and international students). However, there are enough people of other backgrounds there (including my daughter) that you will not feel like a freak if you aren’t Asian. You will hear plenty of languages other than English, though, and if you ever decide to stay on campus for one of the short breaks, such as Spring Break or Thanksgiving, you will find that the building is almost as full of people as it is at other times because the international students don’t go home.</p>
<p>thank you for the review! I wonder if 399 roommates would be better than 11</p>
<p>I want to get pictures of edgemoor but there are none. I’m wondering how the rooms are since the Cascadilla students are squeezed maybe the edgemoor rooms will be larger?</p>
<p>So, I lived in Casca for a year, but the gf and a few of our friends all decided to live in Edgemoor. I spent more time in “The Edge” than Casca.</p>
<p>There are twelve rooms, but it housed 21 people (five on the third floor, twelve on the second floor, and four (incl. RA) on the ground floor. The rooms there are interesting, in that the doubles they have are set up so there’s one (spacious compared to Casca) room, and a door from that room into the other room. So, if you wanted privacy in the interior room, it was easy. </p>
<p>I liked the Edge more because I knew or ended up knowing half the residents. It became a joke with the RA that I was an unofficial resident of Edgemoor. </p>
<p>Casca was convenient. Cramped, but as Marian said, close to the action. It was hard to get to sleep Thurs-Sat because of all the noise. I lived oon the fourth floor facing Collegetown, so that probably didn’t help. </p>
<p>So, comparing the two, Casca is more crowded, closer to the sights and Ctown scene, and has more expansive facilities. Edgemoor would likely be much quieter, but you have more space in its rooms as well.</p>
<p>I might also suggest launching water balloons at neighboring Chi Phi from the top floor balcony of Edge. That was so much fun back in the day.</p>
<p>bump to the top</p>