<p>EA seems to be removed so I was wondering if Stony offers any early notification for admission (like before January 1). Does everyone get notified around the same time regardless of when the app is submitted?</p>
<p>Also, is the Honors program GPA a strict cutoff? Like, if its lower, you won't even be considered?</p>
<p>We have, historically, started to send out some decisions early, but I don’t know what the plans are this year. When you apply has NO bearing on when your decision is rendered, however.</p>
<p>The HC cutoff is something of a strict cutoff, yes, but if you’re at least in the ballpark, then you’ll still likely be considered.</p>
<p>^You might get accepted to Stony Brook, but not directly in the department of CSE. In short, you’d be classified as AOI- CSE – Simply because you are not ready.</p>
<p>Once admitted, you’d have to take CSE114, CSE215 and get a B average between those two courses to be considered by the CS department. I can’t stress this enough, it has to strictly be a B or better average.</p>
<p>114 is object oriented programming in Java, and 215 is Discrete Math. From my experience as a teaching assistant for 114, the department has elevated their standards so expect a kick in the butt. About half of the class is usually weeded out, from my experience. For future applicants, comparing Stony CSE to Boston, NYU, Poly, Northeasten, or most of other schools(except the top notch schools obviously)are simply not on the same level, or tier as us. Feel free to compare us to Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, MIT, etc. Once our new CS building is up, we’d easily be top 5 in the east, and top 20 in the USA(Especially with our amazing faculty, which in terms of size larger than most schools combined, scroll down the CS faculty list) Cool fact before I wrap this up : Stanfords president is a Stony Brook CSE grad.</p>