Hi, I’m a senior in high school and I have applied to both colleges. The main reason I applied to them was because of the NYC location and the affordability. Now all I need to do is choose which school. I like that Hunter is a few blocks away from central park (upper east side) opposed to city college which is in Harlem. But city colleges campus is breathtaking whereas hunter is just a plain old building. Both are equally far away from me so the convenience isn’t a factor. Also which has a better reputation for pre med, any opinions? Hunter or city college?
IMHO, both are good Premed options. I think CCNY has a better science and premed program than Hunter.
https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/premed
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The wonderful thing about New York is the extensive 24-hour subway system; if you want to go to Central Park from CCNY, you can always hop on the B/C train and be there in about 15-20 minutes. Also, since CUNY colleges are not residential, just because Hunter is located near Central Park doesn’t mean you’ll be living near Central Park. You almost certainly won’t be able to afford any housing on the Upper East Side close to Hunter. So you’re more likely to have to commute a long distance to Hunter from wherever you live than to City.
I lived in New York for 7 years, and I’m of the opinion that there are a lot of parks in the city that are better than Central Park. CCNY is bordered by St. Nicholas Park and is also not that far from Riverside Park, which is personally my favorite park in New York (or maybe second-favorite, after Fort Tryon). Fewer tourists! A couple blocks down from CCNY you also have Morningside Park, which I used to live right by and is also a great park as long as it’s not dark. LOL. Or if you go up a few blocks from CCNY you can get to Jackie Robinson Park…seriously, there are so many parks in NYC. A lot of the other parks in NYC actually offer more free city services than Central Park does; Central Park does have the Summerstage concerts, but again…subway.)
Anyway, City College is very well known for their STEM and health sciences programs.
Hello i am currently applying to CUNY City College
I have a 3.5 GPA
Went to a trade school, maintained a 99 Average and graduated with a degree of mastery
graduated high school with around a 3.0 GPA (so like 88 or something)
Volunteered over 100 hours in hospitals, doctors offices, animal shelters, public library, and working with the mentally handicapped, performed 20 community service hours to graduate high school ( helping out my neighbor, cleaning gutters, mowing lawn etc etc),
Extracurricular: participated in a blood drive in my medical assisting class, participated in stage crew 2-3 times each year from 9-12th grade, varsity football, Phi Theta Cappa honor society member, high school band in 9th grade, participated in health knowledge bowl ( basically jeopardy but medical terminology and procedures) and placed 1st in counties and 2 in states, Certified Phlebotomist Medical assistant and EKG Tech, CPR certified and certified life guard
low sat score ( unfortunately 1400 or something) never took ACT, got a D in calculus but retaking it now
How are my chances and how hard to i have to work to apply
Please help I’m so worried
I am a science professor at CCNY, and I cannot stress enough how poor City College is especially in science related areas. First of all, one should not look at catalogs, course descriptions, or course notes to evaluate CCNY. CCNY is known for giving students good grades even though they have not learned any of the course material. For instance, CCNY, through their grade inflation stances, has forced me to give students about 60% on tests when they did not answer a single question even partially correctly!!! Oh. The neighborhoods around CCNY are very dangerous, and people at CCNY often get mugged at night. Since CCNY is also a cheap school, the buildings and classrooms at CCNY are overcrowded and in disrepair. The only reason most of the students are able to find a seat in the overcrowded classrooms is that except when there is a test, many of the students are completely absent from class.
jrod9400. I am unsure if you will be able to get into CCNY (for some reason CCNY is quite selective even though the students there are exceedingly poor possibly because only poor students apply to go there), but if you do not make it to CCNY perhaps you can spend the first couple years (or your first year) at a community college and then transfer over.
@suptree1776: Let me get this straight. CCNY is forcing YOU to hand out grades to students that do not deserve it? In your second post above, you said that: I personally have to give people good grades for very poor work since otherwise only one or two students will be happy with their grades. In other words, no one is forcing you to give a certain grade, and you are doing it to get favourable rating from the students?
I seriously doubt you are who you purport to be and you are more than likely a disgruntled ex-student, possibly dismissed from the institution for academic reasons. You join the forum on 6/15/2016 (~ 6:34 PM) and within minutes submitted two posts aimed only at CCNY. Saying you are a Science/STEM Professor to add an air of legitimacy to your “drive-by” assault on the institution, is pathetic. If the institution is :
“severe grade inflation”
“unorganized/dysfunctional”,
“dangerous”,
“buildings/classrooms that are overcrowded and in disrepair”,
“unprepared students”,
why continue to teach there? I think you have an axe to grind and you are on a mission to sway public opinion. Your two post clearly appears to be from an angry individual and the anger-filled rants/tirade is inescapable. If you goal is to stem the inflow of students to CCNY, even if it is detrimental to your long term job security, you fail miserably.