<p>Hi, I was just wondering how life was like at SUNY @ Stony Brook because it is on my list of schools. How is life outside of school? How are the people? How are the professors? Does SUNY @ Stony Brook have a good Pre-Med curriculum? Does this school have an Honors program/college? Are you happy there?</p>
<p>Thanx...^_^</p>
<p>can any current student comment on that?</p>
<p>Son just graduated. LOVED the school! Great and approachable profs! Marvelous administraion! Coming up fast in the ratings! Totally recommend it!</p>
<p>Some great merit scholarships. </p>
<p>Good science / math due to sharing expertise with Brookhaven.</p>
<p>A little empty on weekends.</p>
<p>If you have a car (as a freshmen if you can get a job nearby, maybe Smithaven Mall, they will let you have a car) the area is great. If you don't have a car the area within walking distance is limited. My daughter had a car and she loved it there. She stayed there every weekend. No matter where you go you should think about joining some club or sport. My D joined the rugby team and loved it.</p>
<p>I just recently visited stony brook for their open house and fell in love with it. As a freshman & sophmore living on campus, if you have a car, you are not allowed to park it on the campus. But, they have the LiRR train station on campus. The Campus was amazing and people very friendly.</p>
<p>My daughter was a freshman and she had a car on campus. She had to show that she had a job that she needed it for.</p>
<p>wow, these moms seem like advertisers or people working for sbu..</p>
<p>Life outside of school is awesome, the people are fantastic, and the professors are a mixed bag. The majority of my profs have been amazing, and if you're careful to get advice before registering you'll be fine. Pre-med curriculum is good (tons of us here, so it needs to be... classes are big, but well structured. Unlike at most schools, where the goal of orgo is to kill you, here the professors actually just want you to learn the stuff, and manage to make it pretty interesting, though still difficult). There is an honors college, which is useful to be a part of (I'm not, but know a lot of people who are) because of the priority registration and scholarship that its students get, but otherwise unnecessary.</p>
<p>I'm really happy here when it's not finals week, and even now I wish the semester weren't ending.</p>
<p>I am trying to find out if the SB campus empties out on the weekend. Any one who goes to SB...can you give me an honest answer...thanks!!</p>
<p>yeah I'm curious if it's dead on the weekends or just not as busy.</p>
<p>From what I hear, it does quiet down a bit on weekends, but not much, I don't think. Lots of students commute, but there are still enough there. I talked to a girl who goes there, and she say's it's fine on the weekend, she goes to parties and what not.
However, what I hear isn't as reliable as someone who stays on campus, obviously. So I hope someone responds, I'm curious also.</p>
<p>i talked to my friend who lives on campus, he confirms that it's quiet on the weekends, but he says he just goes to the city and there's always a party there.</p>
<p>sounds good to me =]</p>
<p>No, it doesn't empty out on the weekends. There's always plenty to do.</p>
<p>I go to SB and live on campus, though my family is near enough that I commuted for my first year. My friend who goes to Brown (translation: takes him over 6 hours to get to LI) came home several more times than I did this semester. I've never lacked for fun things to do on the weekends on campus.</p>
<p>I am really confused on where to attend. My dad went to a Stony Brook internet site where they really bash the school...and he's really not sure what to make of it. Some of the comments were pretty harsh. Plus I was pointed to a Princeton report that showed that SB students were not happy...not sure what earned them that.</p>
<p>I have also been accepted to Albany and have been asked by Binghamton to send them my mid year grades. </p>
<p>I am planning to be a chemistry major and try for a minor in physics. Heard SB was a really good science school with lots of lab time, which is what I want to be involved with. </p>
<p>I would be living on-campus and staying the weekends (will not have a car).</p>
<p>its a huge safety school.. most people dont wanna be there but its good place for education</p>
<p>The Stony Brook Sucks website is barely updated these days and is useless.</p>
<p>SB students gripe. All students everywhere gripe. It's a popular pastime when you get to college. Stony Brook people may sometimes be more open about it because we don't have to worry that we're wasting $40,000 a year on an experience that's not completely perfect.</p>
<p>Seriously, it's really tiring how outdated the information everyone seems to be relying on is. Most people <em>choose</em> to be here and are happy about it, honest to god. Yeah, there's the occasional freshman Honors College snotnose who can't stop talking about their SAT scores and thinks they're smarter than everyone else, but if they have any awareness at all they stop that ******** quickly once they realize the people who aren't bragging are kicking their butts (and scored higher to boot). Those types exist everywhere. At Stony Brook, as at many other great schools, the people who turned down other schools to come and are really passionate about the school and involved in student life far outnumber them.</p>
<p>I'm not saying there aren't problems, but a) many of them are the same problems my friends at more "prestigious" schools have, and b) I'm working to change things for the better.</p>
<p>Any questions?</p>
<p>I definitely agree with Pseudonym.</p>
<p>There are of course some negative things about Stony but overall it's a great place. Definitely great place for science/engineering majors, and in my opinion better than albany.</p>
<p>The place does empty out on the weekends, but if you put a little effort into searching, you'll find plenty who stick around as well.</p>
<p>DOnt go to albany stony brook is much better and this is coming from a kid who been to both schools. Albany is much more distracting because the professors demand perfection and the party scene can draw anyone in which can really drain our pockets as well as make you lose concentration in school</p>
<p>Thanks for the great reviews, everybody!</p>
<p>I think that's one of the great misconceptions about Stony Brook is that everybody vanishes on the weekends. Problem is, when you go from 40,000 people -- including faculty and staff -- walking around during the week to "only" several thousand on the weekends, it's going to seem a lot quieter than it really is. I'm actually on campus right now, as we're hosting a Financial Aid program for incoming students... and there's been a pretty constant flow of students through the Student Activities Center. And there's a men's basketball game at 1:00, and a women's game tomorrow at 2:00, so there's definitely stuff going on.</p>
<p>If anyone has questions, please feel free to let me know!</p>
<p>Chris D'Orso
Assistant Director, Admissions
sbuchris.blogspot.com</p>