<p>I was wondering when a good time to transfer would be? Would one be able to transfer after the first semester, or would I have to wait until the first year was over to complete my application to transfer? I'd appreciate any help, thanks.</p>
<p>Any time is good. I just finished transferring to UConn from SBU. </p>
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<p>@jomkelly was wondering why you were transferring from SBU to UConn. What was it about SBU that made you leave? How long were you there? Any details would be helpful. Thanks!</p>
<p>Stony Brook>UCONN</p>
<p>Hey fancyfeast, good sources to back things up. They’re incredibly similar academically, and virtually indiscernible, so saying one is better than the other is just an attempt to toot your own horn, and attempt to seem superior. Both are respected schools, and one has school spirit…guess which. I don’t want to bash SBU because it is a good school, but if you’re looking for honesty, PM me. </p>
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<p>That would be yesterday</p>
<p>hey aj-</p>
<p>I was a student at stony brook for one year before transferring out to usc film school. I applied in February after I had only one semester’s worth of credits and got my decision in May.</p>
<p>can anyone above tell me more about you information? i am wondering if i have chances to get in SBU.
Summer term is my last chance to get my GPA up, and i think i can got at least 3.3. What about u guys</p>
<p>@rainbowskies11 can you give more info why you transferred out after only one year? Was it the atmosphere, the students, something else???</p>
<p>My girlfriend goes to Uconn. I am a stony Brook student and i can say that the differences between Uconn and SBU are zero when it comes to academics. The difference lies in the social life of students and the spirit towards their school. While Uconn has enjoyed Strong school spirit led by their athletics, Stony Brook struggles to find that unity between their students even though this is slowly changing. I love Stony Brook and i am about to graduate. Storrs, CT is not the right place for me, its in the middle of nowhere. </p>
<p>SB lacks that homogeneous student-body and it is a very diverse university while Uconn is the total opposite. While diversity is great, it only makes things harder when it comes to unifying an university.</p>
<p>The cost of attending SB is the strong positive. I would never attend Uconn, mostly because their out-of-state cost are insane compared to any SUNY school that offer similar education. Bottom line is, satisfaction in both schools greatly depend on the type of person you are, just like in any other university. </p>
<p>To feel comfortable in SBU you have to go out and find what pleases you, staying in your dorm will make your stay here a horrible one, nothing will be handed out to you. At Uconn, it is different: You got 20,000+ kids (and a whole state) rooting for the Uconn Huskies at all times, attending the Basketball games, getting drunk and trashy. At SB, athletics are still largely insignificant across the student-body…</p>
<p>Still, I get the feeling that SBU is moving forward at a much faster pace than a school like UConn. If i had to make the college decision all over again, i will come to SBU…</p>
<p>It was basically everything. The atmosphere at sb is incredibly depressing as most of the students are angry and/or unhappy for one reason or another. The school has made pathetic attempts to amp up school spirit (at least when I was there) by creating mandatory freshman events in order to pass a mandatory class your first year. These events are mostly lame and no one really cares about being a ‘seawolf’- what even is that, anyway? To be incredibly honest, I felt as though most of the students on campus had issues being mature individuals, and those who I interacted with were whiny, snobby, and not too bright. But then again, I was mostly socializing with kids in the humanities department. Which brings me to my second point.
I’m an artsy person (into film, art, writing), and sb is more focused on science/math/engineering-- all of which I do horribly in. The professors I had for writing and play analysis were laughable. One would put on movies for us during class time and walk out of the room, then make us write an essay on the novel the movie was based off of, while the other didn’t even have a teaching degree-- she was going to grad school at the same time. I read all of the plays before the semester had even started but still ended up with a lower grade than a friend of mine who never showed up to class. There seemed to be a lot of favoritism going on not just amongst the students but faculty, too.
I know it seems unfair to pinpoint all of these things on sb when I’m sure many college students all over experience similar things at their respective schools, I’m just trying to paint a picture of what it was like for me as a student there. The last and final thing I will remark on are the dorm situations. Be aware-- I had a suite mate who was kicked out for not attending class but hid in our suite and would sleep in my bed on the weekends when I would leave. I contracted pink eye from the germs on my unwashed sheets, and the head RA refused to make the student leave after multiple telephone calls made to housing admin., claiming that it was a big campus and he couldn’t forcibly remove someone from it even if that person was not a student. My room was also broken into several times during the year and university police failed to find the people responsible for stealing several hundred dollars worth of items from my building’s floor.</p>
<p>In short, I hated sb and am so grateful to be gone from that mess. There are some that genuinely like the school, though, and I would never discourage anyone going into math/science related majors from receiving an education there.</p>