<p>I would consider Stony Brook (SUNY) its more suburban than rural now....but its a big campus, that has a little bit of everything that a student would want. </p>
<p>Checkout their biomed eng program:
<a href="http://www.bme.sunysb.edu/bme/%5B/url%5D">http://www.bme.sunysb.edu/bme/</a></p>
<p>Cost is about $22,600 for OOS, still less than Stevens.</p>
<p>Thanks alot Frankie38!</p>
<p>I'll definately check that out. I think it's right up my alley, at least at a glace and it could be a good alternative to UMass. Know anything about the rankings or more info about the school?</p>
<p>Also does anyone have more info on UMass Amherst?
Thanks again frankie38.</p>
<p>Stony Brook Biomedical Engineering ranked #36. (Grad) BME program is ABET accredited.</p>
<p>Stony Brook is very strong in sciences, Biology,EE,CS very good. They have a Health Science Center/Hospital as well. </p>
<p>I recommend a visit, go see for yourself.</p>
<p>Thanks again Frankie38. I think I'll most probably do just that a take a visit. But appart from the accademics, do you know anything else about the school like how many students go there, how big the campus is, how rural it is, the male/female ratio and most importantly the social atmosphere?</p>
<p>Stony Brook University</p>
<p>Fast Facts</p>
<p><a href="http://www.stonybrook.edu/sb/fastfacts/%5B/url%5D">http://www.stonybrook.edu/sb/fastfacts/</a></p>
<p>Student Body
Total Undergraduates: 14,851
Total Students: 22,527
Ethnicity: 9% African- American; 22% Asian-American; 9% Hispanic-American; 60% Other
Gender: 49.5% Male; 50.5% Female (yeah!)</p>
<p>Location</p>
<p>60 miles east of NYC. North Shore, Suffolk County, Long Island. Suburban.
1,100 acre campus. New Football stadium. Division 1 sports. </p>
<p>Stony Brook itself is a small village. Very charming shops and restaurants in the village. Port Jefferson , Smith Haven Mall are close by too. So there are places to go off campus if you need to. A late nite Friendly’s run is fun sometimes.</p>
<p>Student Life:</p>
<p>Most students are from the NY/NJ/CT metropolitan area. Grad students are from all over the world. Most students stay on campus during the weekends. Some go home. It can be a serious competitive school if that’s what you want. There’s plenty of social activities since not everyone is premed, prelaw or engineering. That is, plenty of girls/boys in pysch, eco, polsci, theatre, English, etc that are not fixated on gpa, grad school and can have good time. The dorms are called Colleges. So, if you live in Douglass College you will get to know most if not all the folks in Douglass over time.
Great concerts, parties, movies, intramural sports.</p>
<p>Ultimately, the opportunities are there. Your experiences will be determined from what YOU bring and contribute to campus life.</p>
<p>Puff, I think you're right about Drexel. When I was reading your original post about Stevens, I was thinking about visiting Drexel with my son last spring. (BTW, it's fine for a student to post on the Parents' Form.)</p>
<p>Thanks frankie38 and 1moremom!</p>
<p>I'll definitely look more into SUNY Stoneybrooke as well as continuing to avoid Drexel. Any more info on UMass would be real helpful. Since my sister currently lives in Amherst and my cousin is currently attending the school as a freshmen, and because I've visited a number of times and been happy (at least from that 'at a glance' distance) I'm leaning towards the school a bit. I really want to check out the academics more though. Importantly whether I could get into the Honors program and whether I could take something similar to Biomedical Engineering AND kinda importantly if I'd get scholarship money (I feel like I will almost definitely get in <cross my="" fingers,="" grin="">. So thanks and more info on UMass would really help. I guess my main reservation about the school is that it wouldn't be prestigious enough or at least as prestigious as Stevens and would therefor hurt me when I get a job for a year or two before moving on to either graduate school or medical or law school or something else. (Both hurt me in a starting salary and in helping me get into good schools (with scholarship)). So I mean in summary:</cross></p>
<p>What are my chances of getting into the honors program?
What are my chances at a scholarship?
How prestigious is the school, really?
Do you think there would be a difference in the starting salary or quality of job I would get as an exiting graduate from UMass Amherst vs. Stevens?
Do you think it would make a difference to grad. type schools I might apply to in the future?</p>
<p>Thanks again.</p>
<p>Any more input from anyone? I could really use it. Thanks again in advance.</p>
<p>I'm not sure what their policy with transfers is, but you should look into Olin.</p>
<p>Stevens is a good school. UMass will be a step down. It's not so bad, though. The faculty is excellent, and if you do well there, you will be alright. But it's not Stevens' caliber.
I may know some of the barely-English-speaking Stevens profs you are complaining about. lol. They are actually very smart. You will have that same problem at any school of engineering.
No one can tell you whether you are going to get financial aid or scholarship. The general wisdom is that colleges are stingy with transfer students. The only way to find out is apply and see what they offer you.
It's February, and you are cutting it close. Apply now and see what happens. Also Look into some of the schools others mentioned.
How about SUNY Buffalo? Their engineering is at least as good as Umass, arguably better. Large. Diverse. Typical college experience. Plenty of girls on campus. You wil be swimming in snow.
And the best part is it's affordable. The only thing is the area is not rural. It's suburban. But it's no Hoboken for sure.</p>
<p>Thanks to a77899 and nefer. I appreciate the input. I checked out Olin and I dont think its for me, way too small and I dont know if I'd get in anyway. As far as SUNY Buffalo, althought it does look pretty great, I think its a little too far from my home in norhtern NJ. But thank you. You're right about many hard to understand profs but I think there are some better ones out there than the ones I've had. I reallly want to move foward with my life and I think transferring from Stevens is the right move.</p>
<p>To all, I'd really appreciate any more help you could give, esspecially concerning info on UMass and even just stuff life campus life and anecdotes. If you have any input on another college this is what I'm looking for a college that is the folllowing:</p>
<p>Rural (or as much rural as possible)
Large (larger than 10K or 15K would be good but this is flexible)
In the Northeast
Close to a place he can snowboard (somewhere nice)
Has good academics or be at least comparable to Stevens
Somewhere that could be < or = 30K a year (after scholarships) but this is the MAX amount after scholarships and it would be very preferable to go somewhere that would be closer or less than 20K a year (FINAL cost)
Good male/female ratio (better than the 75/25 at Stevens, MUCH preferably at least 50/50 or close to it)
Not too crazy far from New Jersey (But most anywhere outside of Maine in the Northeast would probably be alright)</p>
<p>(Read through the post if you have time but any help is appreciated.) </p>
<p>P.S. - I've also been looking into UVM and UNH lately and info on those schools would be great. THANKS!!!!</p>