My son will be deciding between Stony and Bing as well. For computer Science. We will see. It’s going to be tough.
@ACatSLP curious why your son doesn’t want to go to Rutgers since you are NJ residents their computer science program is pretty good. My personal feeling is Rutgers is too large and I feel my son does better in a smaller setting…that’s why we like Binghamton so much.
@borgdoctor I guess because we live so close to Rutgers and he’d like a bit of a change. Agree, it’s very large. He did get into TCNJ too, but in state tuition for NJ is pretty high as well.
For anyone trying to decide, my son is a very happy freshman at Bing. He had an option to transfer to a very prestigious private university as a sophomore, but won’t be doing it. He said the other day “I’m glad I’m here.”
@Lindagaf what is your son’s major? How are the professors?
@silverpurple Son will be majoring in Econ, but is trying to transfer into SOM, so not sure.
I think the profs get a thumbs up for the most part. His first day of history class called Ancient Cities, the prof showed up in Indiana Jones garb, complete with a whip. My son loves that class. So far, he’s enjoyed most of his classes. He’s had some classes where the prof isn’t seen nearly as much as the TA, which doesn’t bother my son, although it bothers me.
I just want to point out that Binghamton’s CS Department is top-notch. In my opinion, it is significantly better than Stony Brooks in terms of job placement and faculty.
Thoughts on pre med at Bing vs Stony Brook?
@blueskyreal Planning on going to admitted students day and speaking with the Watson CS department. Should be an exciting day and hopefully we will see some “real blue sky” instead of cloudy or snowy day. 
We are going to the April 18 Admitted students day. I hope the CS department will get to talk!
any decisions recently
FYI- Not according to these cs rankings, http://csrankings.org/#/index?all - S.B. #28, Bing #65
@NJFather I guess my views are a little bias because I personally know a lot of the faculty in the CS Department at Bing. The rankings are based on publications and research done by the faculty. Bings CS faculty is quite small compared to other schools.
I think there are a lot of factors that go into deciding where to go for CS besides rankings. If we went solely by csrankings.org then my son should be choosing Northeastern (#14) or Rutgers (#23) instead of Stony Brook or Binghamton.
Same here. A very stressful time. Daughter received $5,000 Presidential Scholarships to New Paltz, Buffalo and Albany. Albany as gave her an additional $2500 scholarship and she has been accepted into their honors program. Albany would be very affordable. Pay probably about $3000 a year to go there. But the more I try and get myself to like it for my daughter, I can’t help but feel that I want her to go to Bing.
Daughter wants to go to Bing. She feels that the student body are more serious about school at Binghamton. Maybe not fair to Albany and I point that out to her but that is how she feels. She just got accepted to the honors college at Albany. That has made her stop and think a little bit about Albany again but I still think she prefers Binghamton. I just wish Binghamton had given us some sort of merit aid but I know almost everyone at Binghamton is in the top 10% of their class so she’s just average at Binghamton.
Single mother here so for us the $12,000 this year and probably less financial aid next year because we made more money in 2019, so next year will probably be about $15 000 we would have to pay. Will probably need loans to cover about $5,000 of that.
So when compared to loans and then also grad school. Daughter wants to major in math and become a math teacher but that could change. She would have the ability to change schools much more easily at Albany. No loans and could save money to then have no loans for grad school. But Albany’s campus, dorms and reputation is not the same as Bing. This is so hard.
Could anybody weigh in on the Binghamton vs Albany?
@blueskies3537 if D wants to teach, why not teach and have her employer pay for her master’s degree? I know NY requires a master’s after a certain number of years, but my husband is a teacher and that’s how every teacher I know has done it.
You’re lucky in NY to have great in-state options. Good luck with your decision!
@blueskies3537 If your D is majoring in Math, you should look into the NYS Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Incentive Program. If you graduate top ten percent of your class and are majoring in a STEM field(which she is), the state will pay for your tuition(not housing). The only caveat is that you have to stay in New York for at least five years after you graduate. For some people, that isn’t a problem, but it is for others.
Has Binghamton sent out any rejection letters yet?
Has anyone heard from Decker nursing?
Has anyone heard from SOM recently?