Yay more Cornellians!!!
I have been up to Ithaca twice now and have signed a lease for an apartment. Feel free to PM me if you want to know more about my experiences with that!
If you're applying to a program solely because it's "easy to get into", you're applying for the wrong reasons. Also, what are your research interests that they span so many disciplines?
Start looking now!!!! I got my apartment more or less as soon as I was accepted into my program and the good places were almost all taken! Current students will have renewed their leases already.