Cost of attendance typically includes everything: tuition, room (housing), board (food), books, transportation, personal expenses (such as new clothes, pizza, going out, weekend trips, toothpaste, lamp and rug for your room…), health insurance. Penn State is supposed to be 47K COA for the year, all inclusive.
All three are good.
Go to the one you can afford.
Penn State sounds like it’d be too expensive for your parents.
Buffalo and Texas Tech are similar academically speaking, with a bit more for Buffalo’s academic and a bit more for Texas Tech amenities (they have stuff like a lazy river).
Their main differences are weather - both are located in average cities, but one is very cold and one is very humid&hot (“muggy”).
of undergraduates
Texas Tech: 30,000
Buffalo: 20,000
Average GPA
Texas Tech: non reported
Buffalo: 3.2
Average ACT
Texas Tech: 25
Buffalo: 27
Campus size
Texas Tech: 1,840
Buffalo :1,350 acres
% classes with 20 students or fewer
Texas Tech: 25%
Buffalo: 36%
% classes with 40 students or more
Texas Tech: 38%
Buffalo: 26%
% freshmen who live on campus
Texas Tech: 92%
Buffalo: 74%
For penn state which halls are better - pollock halls or east halls for engineering? Please suggest.
Pollock. Furniture not screwed to the floor, close to excellent cafeterias, and definitely closer to engineering classes!
See if you can join a LLC though.
Thanks for suggestions, also as I am an international student so I dont know much about the meal plan at the university. So please can anyone suggest which level to take in the meal plan? Which is the best plan ?
Depends how much you eat and whether you plan to be up for breakfast but 13meals a week would be sufficient. If you plan to eat breakfast, plan for 19meals a week. (many students just roll out of bed, drink orange juice, grab a cereal bar, and go to class. Sometimes they get coffee along the way but not necessarily. Full cafeteria breakfast includes eggs, ham, cereals, all kinds of foods.)
So as given in the penn state, they have stated the levels for meal plan ? Which level should I take? What is meal plan level exactly? What does it include? Please explain that to me in detail. Thanks for earlier suggestions.
The middle level meal plan is 3.
http://hfs.psu.edu/meal-plans
I usually have some money left over but I don’t eat a whole lot. I would probably get a 3 for the first semester and then revise up or down based on how much of it you use. Fall meal points roll over to spring.
I’d pick level 4 for first semester, when you’re not independent yet. That covers basically all your lunches and dinners, either in the cafeteria or at retail places.
Thankyou guys for suggestions.
Do you know any undergrade student joining penn state university at the UP campus, for fall 2016? If yes then please let me know, as I am in search for a roommate.
Search for the Penn State Class of 2020 Facebook group. It’ll be 99% people looking for roommates.