I’m stuck between SUNY Stony Brook and SUNY University at Buffalo. I plan on majoring in Chemical Engineering. I don’t know which school would be better. I’ve heard that Stony Brook has less of a community feel because of all the commuters. I got into both the Honors College at Buffalo and the WISE program at Stony Brook. Any thoughts or suggestions?
Have you visited either campus to get an idea of what you like? I’ve heard the same thing about Stony Brook being a commuter school whereas UB has more of that big campus feel. I know people who are happy at both. Seems like you have 2 good options!
Need Help for the best college!
( I’m new to this forum, excuse me if I wrote anything unknowingly).
I have been accepted to these colleges
Villanova - but I have to pay 33K, Binghamton - pay 11K, Stonybrook (University Scholar) - after presidential scholarship have to pay about 8Kand Baruch (Deans Scholar- so I need not pay anything). I’m interested in getting into a medical school after undergrad. My biggest confusion here is deciding between Stonybrook and Baruch. Stony is more of science majors and has many options for research but hard to maintain a good GPA while Baruch is not focusing on Science majors hence has less science programs but easy to maintain a good GPA which is required for a good medical school and maybe I have to work hard by myself on MCAT. Please help me decide the right school here.
Baruch won’t prepare you well for med school. It’s mostly good for business and public policy. THe science offerings are not numerous and classes that arent business gen eds are not offered regularly. They don’t have any sort of engineering, to boot. Also, it’s NOT easy to maintain a good GPA. So, I’d cross out Baruch.
Note that engineering has stricter grading than other majors, making it harder to get a med-school worthy GPA. (A “good” engineering GPA would be 2.9-3, whereas a good med school GPA is 3.6+).
I’d look at Stonybrook and Binghamton as costs are roughly similar. Do you have a preference?
Thank you @MYOS1634 for your valuable advise. I think I will go for Stonybrook.