<p>Hi guys! I just received my acceptance letter from ub. I also applied for several other schools. Ive heard a lot of good comments of ub. I just want to know a little bit more about the school. If theres any current student from ub, or anyone who has graduated ub, please share your story. And if there is anyone whos thinking about going to ub please leave your comment here too! Thank you, guys!!! I really need more information, and maybe I could make some friends to go there together!!!</p>
<p>DD from sunny southern California majored in Engineering at SUNY Buff and had tough professors and coursework. The school is a good school and works with the students. </p>
<p>DD had a very good experience there and graduated May 2013. Working for a world-wide firm here in San Diego with EE and software engineering degree.</p>
<p>They have a lot of parent support. It was easy for us to add monies to her accounts via our debit cards, unlike the UC’s which are a maze for everybody.</p>
<p>Thank you so much for the information. I am glad that your daughter had a great experience at ub, and found a perfect job. This really gives me a lot of encouragement. I’d be more than appreciated if you could share a little bit of her life in college. And I also want to know that did she got any sort of scholarships? If yes, how much?</p>
<p>I’m a senior about to start my final semester next month.</p>
<p>Overall, it’s a good school. Here’s some tips that I wish I knew before I came:
- If you live on campus then buy all your food/convenience goods at CVS or off-campus locations (since on-campus food is very expensive)
- If you plan on staying home for spring break and thanksgiving break, get a dorm in the specified quads or else they dump you in “barracks style housing”
- Try hard to make friends as a Freshman&Sophomore, since it’s a bit harder after that.
- Parking is awful if you plan on driving to campus
- C3 and Goodyear Dining Hall are the two all-you-can-eat buffets on campus. Go there to save money but watch your body weight
- Math help center is great but the Chemistry help center gets very crowded
- You don’t need a car but it really is convenient
- Staying at school for the summersessions and the wintersessions is boring and empty as hell
- Don’t bring any valuables to south campus house parties
- The City of Buffalo has some extreme poverty unseen in the vast majority of the rest of the country so just be aware
- Liking the cold helps since it’s only warm for the first 4 weeks of the fall semester and the last 3 weeks of the spring semester on avg</p>
<p>Thank you so much for replying. Those are some really personal and helpful tips. Now I feel I know things about the school that I could have never learned. I had just signed up for a school visit in February. I figured after all a visit would be that best way to learn about a school.</p>
<p>Visiting the school is a great idea!</p>
<p>The school has three campuses and the tour likely only shows some of north campus. So I would recommend devoting time to tour more of north campus as well as south campus (the 3rd campus is the downtown medical campus but it probably won’t be relevant to you).</p>
<p>It’s a huge school so there’s a lot to explore. It’s the largest SUNY school.</p>
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<p>There’s no reason you should need to be in those areas though. Buffalo is like any city, it has good areas and bad areas. Stay out of the bad ones.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say that it’s “unseen in the vast majority of the rest of the country.” It’s like any major city. I’ve spent significant time in Cleveland, Albany, LA, and Miami, and they have areas that are just as bad.</p>
<p>My take: Good school, good professors, great opportunities, and the right price.</p>
<p>Hii. Just wanted to know if you applied for Early action? How long after submitting the SMART application did you get a response? I also applied to UB :)</p>