I was accepted to hunter college and stony brook university. I was suggested in this forum to go to hunter college and spend less money for housing. And I decided to go to hunter. I’m transferring from a community college to hunter college with 67 credits. But the thing is I am not sure I will like it at hunter. And I’m wondering if I’ll be able to transfer to stony brook again with 80 credits if I won’t like hunter (15 supposedly taken at Hunter)
That would be something to check with the transfer office at Stony Brook. When you read the information on their website, are there any restrictions in the number of credita an applicant can have? Are there restrictions in the number of credits that can be accepted for transfer?
If you start off assuming you won’t like Hunter, you won’t.
But I would be stunned it a campus in Suffolk county had an issue with a CUNY transfer.
As to the number of transfer credits SB will accept, you’ll have to check with them.
Stony Brook won’t be any less expensive a year from now. If finances matter, I’d try to find things to love about Hunter.
I went to Hunter and transferred to Stony Brook. The courses here are more rigorous but so worth it. The faculty at Hunter was not really helpful and the guidance was no good. At Stony Brook there are more options for research and joining clubs that have good missions. Are you going pre med ? or something else? I definitely recommend Stony Brook it feels more like college and at Hunter everyone always seemed so unhappy.
Also, Stony Brook will usually accept up to 80 transfer credits just call the transfer office to double check
If you do transfer you’ll still be facing the same problems we discussed on the last thread…a commute from Brooklyn to Penn to the middle of Suffolk county that will be 4+ hours round trip or an extra $13,000 per year to board there.
Given those options, I would learn to like Hunter.
Yes, I’m doing pre-dental/prehealth. And I was fool enough to withdraw my acceptance right away without thinking. So I need to apply in spring again. Meanwhile I’ll spend a semester at hunter college. I saw how many clubs SBU has and personally I want to join a predental society, and a campus orchester. I know I’ll still have to pay 13.000 for housing and personal expenses, but I think it worth it.
Also, how many credits did you have when transferred ?
It may not be too late to still accept stony
It’s not May 1 yet. Just call admissions and tell them you decided to attend
The cost of dorming will entirely wipe out your parents’ savings. Why would you do that to them?
A campus orchestra and pre-dental club are worth leaving your parents with $0 in the bank heading toward retirement? It wasn’t foolish to turn Stony Brook down. It would be a mistake to turn down Hunter.
@sybbie719, is Hunter a good option academically for what OP wants to study or is there a better option near her in Brooklyn?
What in your situation is changing? You will still spend more than $500 a month on the commute. Your parents financially really cannot afford to let you dorm. You go to hunter and transfer to stony brook or vice versus you
will most likely add on to the time it will take for you to graduate. There is no guarantee
Financing grad school will be totally different than financing undergrad. Most of your aid will be in loans. If dental school is really in your future the smart choice is to save your money fir dental school and go to hunter.
If you are spending 4/5 hours a day commuting when are you going to clubs and all of these activities?
I have 10k on my personal savings from my part time job. And for the rest what if I will work part time at the campus and earn ~1000$ a month, so it will cover my housing. And for the tuition I will take a loan, and pay off after I graduate. So in this case I hope I won’t spend my family’s budget, do you think it’s a good idea?
You only experience college once. My son formed at stony and we only live 15 minutes away. He was active in many clubs and was able to meet with classmates to work on projects in his dorm or theirs. You need to experience the college life and you only have two years to do it. Call stony on Monday and tell them you’ve changed your mind. It will be the best decision you can make. Hunter is not a campus. People go to classes and then straight home or to work. Is that the kind of experience you want. Plus, remember you need time to cultivate a relationship with your professors in order to get them to write recommendations for you. If you transfer for your senior year, you won’t have that opportunity.
Hi im a student coming from nassau community college and graduating in the fall of 2018 and have my heart set on going to stony brook. I will be graduating with a 3.5 and am in the honor society of phi theta kappa. Will i have a good change of getting into stony brook?!?!
@adamsonaquest, Please start your own thread to get the best possible answers to your questions without derailing dinacoltrane’s.
@lilaw88, Are you offering to pay Dina’s room and board? Her parents don’t seem to have the money.
Stony Brook costs ~$20k+/year. If you got $3k then your net cost is $17k/year. You can take the $7500/year student loan, which leaves you at $10k. In your other thread you said your parents would be paying the balance from their only savings account, and it only has $40-50k in it. And you want to go to dental school.
@myos1634, @thumper1, @mom2collegekids understand college financing and med school aspirations, especially for low income students. Perhaps they can answer the following questions.
Does dorming help students if their parents have to empty a substantial portion of their bank account to make it happen?
Is it possible for students to earn $1,000/month working part-time in college?
Should students with med/dental school aspirations work the number of hours it would take to net $1000 (after taxes, the gross would have to be more)?
Dina, since you intend to go to med or dental school after you graduate, using up a lot of your available resources for the chance to dorm and join clubs is short sighted. My son commutes to a SUNY. He’s very active on campus and belongs to several clubs. There’s nothing magical about dorming.
My son earned over $1000 a month while going to school full-time. It’s not a problem. If you’re on campus, you have more time to study because you’re spending less time commuting. Even if she goes to Hunter, she will spend three hours a day commuting. That time would better be spent studying or working. If she takes out a loan of $10,000 a year, that would be a total of $20,000 which is definitely manageable debt and pales in relation to what she will be taking out for dental school. I would definitely advise her to go to Stony Brook. It was obvious she has no interest in really going to Hunter.
OP’s parents are recent immigrants. They may not understand that the CUNY system is very good. OP’s total aid consists of TAP and Pell. If she takes the $7500/year federal student loan there’s a $10k gap. OP can’t borrow it, and since her parents are Pell eligible they may not be able to borrow it for her. Even if they did, her total loans would be $15k federal loans + $20k PLUS, which is $35k + interest before she’s even applied to dental school. And that doesn’t count any federal loans taken her first 2 years.
I was given a full scholarship my first two years, at a community college. So I made some savings. Tap + fafsa gave me 3000k for the year in stony brook and hunter. And I also i applied for excelsior. Haven’t heard from them yet. But I visited hunter college to I make a deposit, and (I’m not exaggerating) and the stuff was not very welcoming… maybe I’ll have a different view after my fall semester, maybe I’ll like it there. But does hunter college really give all those opportunities to be a considered a competitive applicant for a dental school? For example While I was doing a research at my current community college, two senior students from hunter college came to join our team. I asked them why they came all the way to Brooklyn if hunter college seems to have research opportunities as well, and they told me that it’s hard to find a research at Hunter and everything is messed up and advisors aren’t really helpful. Also, when we actually worked at the lab, one of the two students from hunter even didn’t know how to pipette. She took all the chemistry classes required for premed, but apparently didn’t learn anything. Again Im not exaggerating. It just seems to me that I’ll be at the same boat at hunter college as I’m right now