At Cornell, are students in the Arts and Sciences school housed separately from students in hotel management, engineering, etc., or could your roommate and floormates be from a different school within Cornell?
Similarly, do students take courses through any of the schools or do they take courses primarily through their own school?
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Everyone is comingled in the dorms, without respect to college.
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Students do take courses primarily at their own college. Each college has requirements as to the # credits that must be taken in-college, to receive a degree from that college.
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However that still leaves plenty of room to take courses at the university’s other colleges,. and many if not most students take advantage of that. Students can and do take courses through any of the schools.
In some cases there are enrollment limitations, or specific prerequisites. So not every single course at every single college may necessarily be available for a particular student’s cross-enrollment. But there is plenty of cross-enrollment, nevertheless.
- it’s not uncommon for people within the same college to befriend each other, and eventually live together in upperclassman years. Since they may share many classes together, and have academic interests in common. This is not necessarily the case though. You might make friends with people in any of the colleges. The freshman dorms are the most important incubators for future friendships, and as I said people are completely intermingled in them.
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