<p>Hey guys, I'm currently wl for many schools. However from the schools I have been accepted too, which do you think is the best choice, regardless of financial issues?</p>
<p>University of Massachusetts
Stony Brook University
Albany University
Michigan State University
Penn State University Hazelton/University Park 2+2 program.</p>
<p>Thank you</p>
<p>Stony Brook probably</p>
<p>The best choice for me would be MSU. Beautiful campus. Respected university. Excellent athletic program. Lots of school spirit. Big enough to provide world-class educational opportunities that you’d expect from a flagship state school.</p>
<p>I don’t know what the best choice for you is though. Did you visit all of them–if so, which campuses felt the best to you? Putting finances aside at your request, how do your friends and family feel about you going to Stony Brook v. Michigan State? Or UMass v. Penn State? Do you feel comfortable spending 2 years deep in the “Alabama of Pennsylvania” just to work your way onto a spot in College Station, the “Oasis of the Alabama of PA”? At UMass, how would you feel going to a school surrounded by at least 10 considerably more prestigious universities?</p>
<p>I would say PennState for my 1st choice. I would then rank UMass and Stony Brook next.</p>
<p>My daughter goes to PSU in Hazleton. Believe it or not, she had a great time her first year. The campus is not as beautiful as UPark, however, you feel the school spirit. Depending on the major, you may be able to transfer to UPark before your two years are up. I can’t believe she’s already finished her first year.</p>
<p>At Hazleton, the professors are more involved with the students progress, since it’s a smaller campus. They monitor your assignments and they are always available to discuss any issues or concerns with you.</p>
<p>She is not just an ID number. This campus works for my daughter. She will be going to UPark in 2010.</p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>
<p>Good luck with your decision and future career.</p>
<p>Michina, I hate to be the ******* that says, “yeah but…” to someone’s own personal account, and I’ll say this with a caveat that I’m not talking down to your family because I know that this is the way a lot of PSU students are admitted. But isn’t that the case at a lot of smaller universities–where people feel like they are getting more attention? I mean, what is the difference between 2 years at Hazleton and 4 years at…idk UT-Arlington or the U of North Texas. And then isn’t it sort of blown out of proportion the whole “just an ID number” at big universities? I can see that at big, non-prestigious universities like the Florida schools that all have 50,000 kids and rank pretty low, but if a school has such a good reputation as PSU or MSU etc, surely they are finding ways to reach out to their students. I guess this is how PSU reaches out to their students to transition them, but MSU probably has different ways to reach out to its students without preventing them from being at the beeeautiful East Lansing campus all 4 years.</p>
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<p>^ Yeah, but read the details on his being accepted to PSU. (I think that’s a normal circumstance for their admitted students, as well.)</p>
<p>My 1st choice would be Michigan State University
personally the other colleges aren’t that good, and why would you go to one of the smaller Penn State campuses for 2 years and transfer to University Park if you have good grades when you can go to MSU for 2 years and transfer to somewhere better if you get good grades</p>
<p>I read it, but the other person said her daughter had a good time. If he/she is instate, but otherwise it may not be worth it.</p>
<p>UMass. You get to be in Amherst and in addition to all the resources available at the university, you can take classes at Amherst, Smith, Mt. Holyoke and Hampshire!</p>
<p>Michigan State University</p>
<p>definitely not UMass, I live in Massachusetts right now and since there are so many excellent private colleges in MA, higher public education is not a priority right now so UMass is getting cut with major funding cuts</p>
<p>That depends on your intended major. Several of those programs have particular strengths. </p>
<p>A PSU mom had an interesting post about the pros of the 2 + 2 system culminating at University Park. Her son avoided the big lecture hall classes of what would have been several in the first two years if he were at University Park for much smaller classes and faculty interaction at one of the other campuses. And the tuition was even less. Certainly not for everyone, but what is?</p>
<p>I agree with ctyankee.</p>
<p>Thanks for the help guys.</p>
<p>I guess I’m stuck between MSU,Pennstate,and Mass.</p>
<p>I live in ny, so stony/albany would be free. However I want to leave ny.
I have visited both stony and albany and massachusets. I have yet to visit msu and pennstate.</p>
<p>Michigan is very far, that is why I am skeptical yet many have great feedback on the school.
I was thinking maybe I can go to MSU for a year than transfer to UMICH. </p>
<p>I got into the finance/business program under msu, and undecided for the other schools.
I plan on majoring in business.</p>
<p>What would be the best scenario now?</p>
<p>Edit: I also realized, why should I go to pennstate if I can always transfer from another school?
So I guess pennstate is out.</p>
<p>So between UMASS and MSU, which is the better school, campus, food, education, etc?</p>
<p>thank you</p>
<p>If you went to Hazelton it would be cheaper and you would have a good chance at PennState then. But I personally would pick UMass over MSU.</p>
<p>Didn’t you have to notify the school you’re going to by like – two weeks ago??</p>
<p>I was wondering the same thing, did you put deposits on all these schools or ask permission to have more time?</p>
<p>definitely go to Michigan State, as a son of a taxpaying Massachusetts resident, I would never advise you to go to UMass-Amherst, nobody from my high school is going there unless that’s the only school they can afford or unless they’ve been suspended from school before and other colleges didn’t give them a look (in my sophomore english class, half the people didn’t care about school and often started fights in class, those people are all going to UMass-Amherst)</p>
<p>yeah they gave me more time. I also called msu and they said they did not require a deposit, and only needed to come to orientation. Weird.</p>
<p>I guess I’m heading to either stonybrook (free), or msu.</p>
<p>Also, is msu ranked top 100 in the nation?
Whats a good site that has real rankings? I don’t think us news is official.</p>
<p>Thank you</p>
<p>USNEWS is most offical </p>
<p>MSU ranked 71</p>