<p>is anyone here applying for fall 2010? i just decided that i might apply to cornell. so far i was only interested in cali schools like usc (marshall) and uc berkeley (haas). does anyone know anything about the undergrad business program at cornell? i hear they give prioirty to sophomore transfers over junior transfers…so since i’m a junior is it worth applying to?</p>
<p>I guess they don’t have preferences as long as you “fit” the program and have experiences that made you choose business as your major. Also, why you want to get into AEM, what you like it, etc.</p>
<p>There’s already a thread for fall 2010 transfers.</p>
<p>The business major at Cornell is called Applied Economics and Management and it’s pretty competitive.</p>
<p>edit: never mind, he beat me to it.</p>
<p>Yea water nothing for me yet. Waiting for decisions is really making it hard for me to study for my exams. I wish ILR gave out notices at the beginning of November like everybody else.</p>
<p>To some people living in a dorm may not be the best thing that has happened for them but for the most part (at least my friends) people have said it has been one of their best experiences in their college life. It is a great opportunity to build strong friendships as you come home every single day to the same bunch of people. Most of the time its just floor hopping to different room parties and get together’s with friends. Although I myself have not lived in a dorm, I have stayed overnight plenty of times at friends dorms and it is always a lot of fun. However I would err on the side of caution for people who do not have much self discipline, as you will always be disturbed by a friend wanting to play 360 or go out to a club, and etc.</p>
<p>anyone noticed that you can get a “cornell 2014” shirt for free? lol</p>
<p>still nothing for me</p>
<p>That depends on the roommate. Last year was mediocre as my roommate and I barely interacted as the year went on, after the initial “Let’s do everything together” phase (which was how I preferred it). This year, my roommate makes me want to jump out the window (we live on the 10th floor)/smack her around/kill myself/be mean, which is uncharacteristic of me. She is not one of the main reasons why I want to leave this school, but she certainly makes leaving a joyous and golden occasion. Some people have awesome roommates (like my boyfriend had). If you have a single, then that’s all good.</p>
<p>Communal bathrooms can also be gross. But sharing a private one with a gross person can be just as hellish since you’re often the one cleaning up after them. Asking them to clean up doesn’t work either since they usually do an unsatisfactory job about it/you have to ask them too many times that you start to look neurotic to them. PUBES, FTL.</p>
<p>But there’s always the community aspect. I always felt the Cornell dorm I stayed in (Mary Donlon) had an excellent cleaning service and the community was just great. One of the first times that I had the creeping feeling I was missing out on something terrific, and amazing…</p>
<p>Argh. I see all those points, yeah. What would everyone else do if you were in my shoes?
a) take the single in schuyler
b) take a gothic (or main house, if they have one) double
c) go for the apartment</p>
<p>Not that I’m wishy-washy enough to leave it up to everyone else to decide, but usually when it comes to decisions like this I end up majorly regretting what I pick. Plus, part of me kind of wants a roommate, just to say I’ve had the experience, haha. It’s only one semester, right?</p>
<p>If you don’t know who your roommate will be, I’d always go with the single. In fact, I’d go with the single regardless, just because I don’t like sharing my space, but that’s just my personal preference.</p>
<p>Well, option A is terrible in my opinion. You will be isolated from everyone in a major way. Walking to hang out with people on west will take at least 15 minutes if not more (I have never been to schuyler, but looking on the map it is FAR, and walking to friends’ dorms in cascadilla and sheldon last semester took forever).</p>
<p>A double is what it is. In your situation you will end up with someone random and they could be great, or absolutely terrible, it is a game of chance. A friend of mine had a roommate who literally urinated in bottles during the night so to avoid having to walk down 3 floors to the bathroom (a gothic), and one night he was drunk and lets just say that room really stank. Other friends have had roommates that just let stuff continuously pile up to the point you could barely get in and out of the room. Some of the gothics have really strange set ups also. A friend last year had a gothic double, but it was set up so that there were two singles behind it, the only problem was that the people living in the singles actually had to walk through the door for his double and through his room to get to their singles (and the 4 people living in this set up were charged for double, single, single!)</p>
<p>Even in a single on the hall in becker last semester there were serious issues. The toilet got clogged at least twice a week, I have no idea what people were doing to it, but it was a serious issue, and maintenance usually took until the next afternoon to fix it. Then there was the issue of condoms in the shower… not everyone is unfortunate enough to have problems like these in dorms, but they are not uncommon at all. The other thing is that the dorm experience will not be the same for a midyear transfer as a fall transfer. People have already made there friends on the floor and you will just be the new guy. While I did make friends on my floor, it was kind of slow and not to the extent I think it would have been had I been there from the beginning of the year. I think the dorm experience is much more beneficial to freshman than anyone else.</p>
<p>An apartment gives a lot of flexibility. You get your own bedroom which makes it like a single, but at the same time you live with other people and can hang out with them similar to how you would in a double or suite. However, unlike the double it is not an issue if they keep a different schedule because you have you own room and can sleep/stay up whenever you want and not have to worry about bothering someone else (or them bothering you). You also get a kitchen and even if you get a meal plan, it is always nice to have fridge/cabinets to keep drinks/snacks/junk food in. Downside is, no janitors are there to clean your bathroom (however there is great maintenance at my apt at least that come very quickly if anything has issues), but as long as you do not live with slobs it is not an issue at all. The apartment experience will certainly depend to some extent on who you live with, but much less than in a double. I am fortunate to live with 3 guys that keep things clean for the most part and stay quiet the majority of the time. The other benefit is that the cost is significantly less than on campus. Obviously I have a stake in what you choose to do, but I think I remained objective in my assessment. I do not know many (if anyone) who would take a dorm over a good apartment (or house, but a house will have more upkeep to deal with) situation after having lived on campus.</p>
<p>O yea, I forgot about the isolation part.</p>
<p>Update!!! So Vassar decided to send the decisions earlier this year!!! They will be sending out decisions this Friday. Put that praying on overdrive. I’ll need it 
Expect some grt news next week (Around Tuesday or Wednesday). Yeih!!</p>
<p>Good luck, Jemma! </p>
<p>And hermanns, I’m expecting a call from housing tomorrow, so I’ll see what goes down. I should know by Wednesday whether I’ll be in on the offer or not.</p>
<p>At this point, staying in Schuyler is not an option and I will be switching. Most likely, I’ll be in a double, whether that’s in a gothic or in a main house is yet to be determined. But my parents and I will discuss it when we get the news, so then I’ll know. </p>
<p>I would definitely feel better knowing you have some others lined up for it, though 
Seeing as how I’m warming to the idea of a double (to be honest, and i think I’ve said it before, I never wanted a single as my first choice, my mom made me put it down so I wouldn’t have the share the space.)</p>
<p>Ok let me know. Anything on west is better than schuyler, but my apt is actually on west campus, much cheaper than even a double, and while you don’t know the people I live here with, I can at least tell you they are good people, and ironicallyunsure has met two of the three. Either way, you will have your own space when you want it. </p>
<p>With a double on campus there is no telling what you are going to get in a roommate and the only way to get away from them is to actually leave and go somewhere else, and sometime it may be because you got sexhiled and not because you wanted to. There is NO advantage to a double outside of cost vs. a single (cornell housing), it really does not help socially. I don’t think anyone I know that got placed with a random roommate as a transfer (or otherwise beyond freshman yr) actually hung out with their roommate. As someone that has been living at home (iirc), you may grow to regret being a in a double. Last semester was my first away from home also (I commuted to my last school), and I would have really hated to have to live with some of the people on my floor in becker, it could only get worse if it was in a gothic. Out of everyone I know that chose a double, they did it because their parents would not pay for a single. Good luck.</p>
<p>edit: Come to think of it, being in a dorm as spring transfer is really not advantageous. My group of ILR transfers (not sure what your major/college is, but I am sure you will not be the only one unless it is something like architecture) were all over the place on campus (a lot were in cascadilla and sheldon court in ctown), but what we did was eat in the dining halls together as a big group pretty much everyday the first 1 1/2 months or so before we started making more friends outside the transfer group. I hardly knew anyone on my floor in the dorm, and only still talk to two of them (one lives in my apt and the other lives near me in florida) because it is so much different coming in midyear. As overpriced as the mealplan is, dinner was the most social time of the day for at least the iLR transfers last spring.</p>
<p>My roommate makes me want to do violent things. Like stab myself in the eye with pencils. Helen Keller had much more floating around in her brain than my roommate does, and the poor woman was blind, deaf, and mute. Seriously, why are you using my body wash when you have your own? How do you not know how to change a toilet paper roll if your major is industrial design? akjdhakuehakwuhfairfhar</p>
<p>On the other hand, my boyfriend’s roommate is his ultimate bro, or one of them.</p>
<p>Honestly, I would say take the apartment, but if you really feel the dorm experience is necessary…you can risk a double. Hopefully they do a good job at housing assignments, though not sure how it works for transfers…Apparently an algorithm knows how to pick a better roommate for me than I know how to pick a roommate for myself.</p>
<p>You know, Hellen Keller actually was pretty smart, especially considering her extremely daunting personal circumstances.</p>
<p>Let’s try not to act as if she was absent-minded. And is not replacing the toilet paper really that big of a deal? Trust me, if I were to tell you some of my roommate stories from freshman year, you’d thank God for the person that you’re with now.</p>
<p>I’ll have to share some of them when I get some time. Of course, I’m not going to waste my time if no one cares, so let me know if anyone’s interested.</p>
<p>And good luck Jemma.</p>
<p>interested. Kind of. No. Wait. Yes. I am.</p>
<p>I’m with you, Azu, I desperately wish we could attempt to pick our own roommates. A profile selection website? A personality matcher that doesn’t include basic questions like ‘when do you go to sleep?’ or ‘what music do you like?’</p>
<p>Well, east, not replacing toilet paper is a much bigger deal for girls.</p>
<p>Haha and I can only imagine the horror stories, but I am kind of interested, so shoot.</p>
<p>I know, that’s my point. A woman who didn’t have all of her senses is a million times more intelligent than my roommate who has all of her senses intact. And it’s not that she didn’t CHANGE the toilet paper, it’s that she didn’t know HOW to, as in didn’t know how to take to the old roll off the bar thing and put a new one on. And that’s really one of the most minor problems I have with her. The list goes on and on. Everyone who knows about her thinks she’s a nightmare roommate, so most likely she’s on par with your freshman roommate.</p>
<p>Ugh.</p>
<p>Hey, I had a roommate who was thrown out of her previous room for flipping a girl in a chair and giving her a concussion! She would come in at all hours and open her bottle of vodka (disguised in an H20 bottle in the fridge) and start smoking out the window, farting and talking to herself…her 1st semester resulted in a 1.86 GPA!!
I tried to talk to her, but, she wasn’t ready to go to AA or a counselor.
I constantly cleaned the room and used Febreeze!!!
It was a nightmare, but, it was only for 1 semester.</p>
<p>BTW…financial aid sent me an e-mail and said that my letter was sent out on Friday.
I assume that most people will get theirs this week.
Self service hasn’t changed yet.
Have a great day everyone!!!:)</p>