<p>I've already applied to a handful of schools but I just found out about SUNY at Binghamton and I was wondering if I had a good chance or if I should just save the application fee.</p>
<p>Out of state (California) URM Female</p>
<p>About a 3.7W(Low, I guess) GPA
One D but I repeated it for an A. Two Cs on my record but generally an A/B student.
Getting B+/A- so far during senior year. Taking AP Government and AP Spanish.</p>
<p>SATs
M600 W700 CR800
Subjects
Lit 700 US Hist 740</p>
<p>APs
US Hist 5. Plan on taking Spanish, Economics, Government and maybe English. </p>
<p>ECs: Nothing special. I've had a part time job for over a year. Played guitar for 6 years. Not much volunteer work besides a few (15 or so) hours of political phone banking and stuff.</p>
<p>Bings apps are due the 31st. . . I THINK
Did you apply to UCLA or UC Berkeley?
If you get in those schools. . . no point flying across the nation</p>
<p>Of course I wouldn't go there if I got into Berkeley. But I'm just looking for some OOS backups because admissions is way tighter here in California as well.</p>
<p>binghamton is a very good school and an excellent value for out of staters. being from calif could help your admissions chances since so few apply from there.</p>
<p>but you really need to think about whether it would be a good choice for you.</p>
<p>binghamton is about 3-3 1/2 hours from NYC. getting to and from binghamton from sacremento will not be easy or inexpensive. binghamton is cold and gets quite a bit of snow. it has a relatively low percentage of out of staters, and most of them are from new jersey and other nearby states. its recent high ranking as a value for OSS may change that a little, but probably not a lot. most students at binghamton are dealing with the upstate versus downstate culture differences. </p>
<p>if you decide to apply, get your application in asap. but absolutely do not decide to attend without visiting first -- and if you wait to visit until after you are accepted -- don't let a sunny day fool you -- they somehow manage to schedule accepted student days on nice sunny spring days -- but they are NOT typical for binghamton -- it rains a lot -- except when its cold and it snows.</p>
<p>Well, my first choice college out of all that I applied to (Besides Berkeley, but that's really unattainable, I think) is University of Rochester. So I've already committed myself to upstate New York, and the weather. Huge culture differences? I didn't think the people would be THAT much different than here. Two blue states and all. I guess I'm living under a rock.</p>
<p>have you visited u of rochester? do you really have a handle of what the weather is like there? just make sure you really understand what winters are like there so you are not in for a rude surprise.</p>
<p>fyi -- rochester is a much bigger city than binghamton. u of r would also attract a more geographically diverse student body since it is a private college.</p>
<p>I've never visited Rochester, but I'm trying to mentally prepare myself for the weather. It's not like I've never been to the snow before. I just figure that if the rain or snow get too bad I'll just stay inside. Sacramento Weather has its downsides as well. </p>
<p>It's funny, the school I'm planning on if Rochester doesn't work out is UC Santa Cruz.</p>
<p>I would suggest you visit now, in the middle of winter. I went to college in Rochester. They actually published a photo of the sun in the newspaper, to remind people what it looked like. Snow is measured in feet, not inches. You might re-think California.</p>
<p>as you'll see there is quite a bit on the ground, but they do a good job of clearing things since they are used to dealing with snow there.
take a look over the next couple of days -- there's supposed to be a lot of snow coming in tomorrow. peak in every so often between now and when you need to decide where to attend -- snow once in a while is one thing. if you aren't used to it, an entire winter covered in it can get to be much -- and realize winter can start in october and run well into march.</p>
<p>both binghamton and rochester are great schools -- i don't mean to discourage you -- i just urge you to know what you would be getting yourself in to.</p>