Taking a car to Cornell?

reptil
Fri, 20 Apr 2012 05:30:54 +0000

I would say it depends on if she is going to be living on or off campus. I am a junior at Cornell living off-campus without a meal plan. I lived my first two years on North and then West campus both years with meal plans. I never really needed a car at that time, but it would have been a bit nicer (however not worth the cost). Now, I am off-campus and do frequent grocery shopping, going out on “adventures” and other kinds of things – and having a car is really convenient and useful and definitely worth the cost. It also provides that extra level of freedom – I can go from A to B whenever and don’t need to sit and wait an hour for a cab. The cabs in Ithaca are late, fairly often rude drivers and confusing on the phone.

To sum up my advice is: off campus (car), on campus (no car).