<p>any truth to this nonsense?</p>
<p>the alumni bashed on the school like nothing else, and it's one of my top choices. </p>
<p>I don't know what to believe and what to not believe.</p>
<p>Are the dorms really bad? How about the social scene?</p>
<p>Ow!!! But you should speak to actual students, not an anonymous poll. I hear most freshman get tripled in rooms meant as doubles (if they want to live on campus). So you have to accept that part. Contact alum from your high school who went to SB.</p>
<p>Yeah, I wouldn't waste a whole lot of time on these "review" sites. Talk to current students. Yes, we do triple, but I'd bet we're probably in the majority among college campuses nationwide, with enrollment jumping in the last few years.</p>
<p>-Chris</p>
<p>Keshav- there is some truth behind that website.... a lot of people here are pretty miserable...most people go here b/c they either live close by or dont have a choice...some of the quads like look prisons..an example would be roth quad and kelly quad..social life is also depressing for a freshman b/c theres not much going on during the weekends here plus we cant have cars...however this is coming from a person who had no intention of applying here in the first place...im only here for a semester..i applied at the last minute..im transferring to geneseo in the spring</p>
<p>well I am a current student...I've talked to a few people and most of them are hate the place and are miserable. of course, there are the few who love the school, but from what I've seen there is not an enthusiastic spirit about the environment here. it's cold and hostile, now that's the truth, like it or not. that website has a degree of truth to it.</p>
<p>most of the buildings here are old, dark, and run down. for crying out loud the chem building elevators sound like they are going to fall apart.</p>
<p>the sac and humanities and wang buildings are nice. but most students never venture into the wang (which is the nicest building of them all). it's funny that the only nice part of the campus is the entrance, which indicates that the school is run by pretty superficial people.</p>
<p>just for the record this is my first and last semester at stony brook</p>
<p>I can't believe the negative preachings I'm reading here. College is what you put into it, no matter where you are. We are from out of state and my daughter had 6 other schools to choose from and chose SB for it's reputation plus she really liked the campus...and we're paying full tuition. In the 2 months she's been there, she's joined a sorority that does cancer fundraising as well as offer great friendships and support, been active in one of the religious groups on campus and will be traveling to the Middle East with them n January, made some wonderful new friends in and out of the dorm from all different backgrounds, enjoys the weekends when it empties out a bit so she can have some nice peaceful time (there's still plenty of ppl around, including all the OOS-ers), and isn't ever anxious to come home! She may not love everything about the school, but there is no perfect school (btw, another suicide just occurred at NYU). The tripling wasn't even bad and although offered de-tripling, they all decided to stay tripled! I hope those that are considering SB don't think of it as a place they are forced to go to and rather be happy to be attending one of the best public universities in the country.There is plenty to do and alot of great ppl to meet.</p>
<p>dietrt- I have a junior daughter and would really like her to consider SB but she has heard from friends there now that it's awful, mainly because of the weekend commuter school situation. We've never been there. I'm glad to hear some positive things...maybe your daughter got lucky with roomates; I can see how tripling might be stressful.</p>
<p>Negative preachings? You are hearing it from the horses mouth, like it or not, the large majority of the student body is thoroughly dissatisfied with their experience at Stony Brook, and that's a fact.</p>
<p>I've even asked graduate students how they liked the school, and most of them were international students, in a room of about 4 of them, not ONE said they were enjoying it....just a small anectodal evidence.</p>
<p>Most of the ethnic groups are extremely exclusive, especially the Asians (I once walked into the commuter lounge in the library and thought I was in the wrong place because I did not see a single non-Asian within sight)...just an observation that is worth mentioning.</p>
<p>There ARE positives to this school, in most cases though the negatives outweigh them.</p>
<p>Muffy, I would consider strongly the opinions of the students who are at this school already..it would be foolish not to. Of course, there are always the students who love the school, however.</p>
<p>And BTW, im a transfer student so I know how it's like at other schools....and it's much better when you have a class of max 40 then a max of 600.</p>
<p>I don't think I could get her to visit after what she's heard which is terrible because we're in-state and it's the only SUNY at a good climate latitude! What can the school do to make the students happy?</p>
<p>At least visit the school.....stay a night....go to a class....do whatever you can to see what it's like before enrolling.</p>
<p>dietrt, I'm really happy your daughter is having a good time! Yours is the only post in this thread that sounds at all like Stony Brook to me. I really don't know what people are talking about with "cold and hostile". I've met some fantastic people in my time here, from all different places and backgrounds--on Saturday night, I went out with some friends who included people from Ohio, Rhode Island, Brooklyn, upstate NY, Germany, Boston, NJ, Korea, Chicago, California, Long Island, and Virginia, with all different majors, religions, ethnicities represented, and all awesome in their own ways. We stayed up partying and then hanging out in someone's apartment until the sun came up having a fantastic time. How can people say it's dead on the weekends?!</p>
<p>Is there some particular group that's happy or unhappy, like all the engineers love SB and all the English majors hate it? Or people from LI love it but not people from Buffalo?</p>
<p>This is a science school. If you take a HARD major, like Biochem, you are going to have a harder time enjoying yourself than a communcations or history major.</p>
<p>It's just not possible for "the large majority of the student body is thoroughly dissatisfied with their experience at Stony Brook, and that's a fact." Just not possible. If that were the case, then we wouldn't have filled the residence halls so quickly, and classes wouldn't fill up, and we wouldn't have to close admissions early. It just doesn't make any sense.</p>
<p>We're a campus of 15,000 students -- of course not all of them are going to be happy. If even five percent of them are unhappy, that's 750 students; that's a big group, and they're going to be heard. You want to hear success stories? Look around the Stony Brook Web site. Read the blog posts. Check out what's going on around campus.</p>
<p>Do NOT assume that if just because a major is "hard" (which is a VERY relative term) you're not going to enjoy yourself, and do NOT assume that communications (which we don't offer, it's specifically a journalism program, and a pretty intense one at that) or history are "easy" majors where everybody spends their day singing about how ecstatic they are.</p>
<p>The people who say it's dead on the weekends aren't here on the weekends; they're commuters who don't care or they're residents who are too lazy to get out of their rooms and do anything. Please don't let a handful of message board posters, or a BS "review" site, color your impressions of the campus.</p>
<p>We're too big and too diverse to color with one paintbrush.</p>
<p>-Chris</p>
<p>Chris - unfortunately, I have heard complaints about SB weekends from real live people as well as CC, and it frightens prospective students who don't live on Long Island. I have not heard as many complaints on this issue from freshmen at other universities. Is the university engaged in any action that might improve weekends for resident students? Or does SB just attract the kind of people who like to study all weekend so students not up for that shouldn't apply?</p>
<p>My aunt went there int the 80's it was always a suitcase school,it has that rep forever. her dorm would clear out by 3 Friday and return late Sunday night or Monday morning.</p>
<p>lol why is everyone bashing this university</p>
<p>cause it sucks</p>
<p>I think this is disturbing as well for a prospective student. I go to PSU, which has twice the number of students and is supposed to be much more overcrowded, but I the student body is extremely satisfied. I keep hearing the variations of the same complaints for every suny, so I don't know if the problem is with the students/administration or what.</p>