Stuck between a few schools

College Majors Engineering Majors
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<p>Im really just looking for some advice on pros and cons for each school. First off I plan on majoring in computer engineering. I applied to 10 schools(i know its a lot) and I got into 9 so far with no rejections yet. Please feel free to say anything positive or negative about the schools, I really want to hear everything and anything.
list of schools i got into:
Drexel University
Hofstra University
Manhattan College
Stony Brook University
University at Buffalo SUNY (didnt get into engineering program)
University of Connecticut (didn't get accepted to main campus)
University of New Hampshire
University of Rhode Island
Central Connecticut State University</p>

<p>still waiting to hear back from Northeastern
For the most part I am stuck between Hofstra, Drexel, URI, and Stony Brook but if you know about the other schools please let me know. Like which schools have the best engineering programs, best co-op programs, best campuses, etc.....</p>

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<p>What state are you a resident of? Cross the out of state schools off your list if you live in New York</p>

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<p>Depends on what state you live in…If you get accepted to Northeastern then definitely attend that…I don’t understand how someone can get accepted to stony brook and not to University of Connecticut main and Buffalo engineering…do you have a low grade in math classes or SAT math ?</p>

<p>Manhattan College’s land area is freakishly small…</p>

<p>Here are some other good colleges from your list ranked:

  1. Stony Brook
  2. Buffalo
  3. Drexel</p>

<p>others are good too but these have more prestige for engineering…Drexel would be number 1 but its extremely expensive…nowhere near the low cost SUNY’s…What state are you from ? Decide between the SUNY’s and your in-state University…I would choose Buffalo because Stony Brook is more known for its sciences rather than engineering…SO buffalo vs your in-state ?</p>

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<p>I live in connecticut and actually its the opposite, I got a 650 in math out of only 1570 and I’ve taken about all the hardest classes my school has to offer for math. Also please dont add cost as a factor to which school is the best, I am lucky enough to not have to worry about the cost.</p>

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<p>Northeastern is number 1.
University of Connecticut is the best from the rest but you didn’t get accepted to main. So, lets remove that…</p>

<p>I would recommend Buffalo, Drexel or Stony Brook. All of them are fine…Buffalo is suburban and Drexel is urban…If you don’t want to waste money then goto Buffalo or Stony Brook. Do you think you can get into Buffalo’s engineering program ? I am talking about internal transfer…</p>

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<p>Personally I think I can get into the engineering program, I am going to work as hard as I can at whatever school I end up at and hopefully theyll just accept me as a transfer. I dont really want to go to buffalo for a year just to get into the engineering program though.</p>

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<p>Stony Brook by a mile. Visit cs.sunysb.edu , and spend an hour or so to scroll down the faculty list, and know that it has a lot going on(think $100 million new CSE building). It has a kick-ass program, with just about every major tech company recruiting on campus(Google, Microsoft, VMware, Facebook, Yahoo, Cognizant, and 400 others).</p>

<p>It is almost a no brainer. I’m a senior at Stony Brook, and as of now, I have 5 offers for a summer internship. I am beyond proud of our department. We recruited 5 professors last semesters, and I heard we are recruiting 5 more this semester(every day we have candidates visiting). We have produced world-class graduates(think the current president of Stanford, global manager of C#, etc, etc). Just go on Linkedin, and type Stony Brook Computer Science to see where our alumni are. Our goal is to become the largest CS department in the USA, we already have the largest CS enrollment(in terms of public schools)in the USA – not to mention 3 buildings devoted to Computer Science(old CS building, new CS building, and CEWIT). Last but not least, BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LAB. </p>

<p>If you don’t know what BNL is, you have some research to do. Only 4 schools in the entire USA manage national labs, Stony Brook is one of them.</p>

<p>“Established in 1969, the Computer Science Department at Stony Brook University is consistently ranked among the top Computer Science research departments. A Gourman report indicated Stony Brook’s undergraduate program was ranked 15th nationwide and 2nd in New York State. The most recent NRC survey ranked it among the top 20 graduate programs in the U.S.”</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/[/url]”>HOME | Department of Computer Science;

<p>With world class professors like Steven Skienna, George Hart and others, you just can’t go wrong. Do yourself a favor and scroll down the faculty list. However, one warning I have is that we make you build things. So it will be incredibly painful. In a basic course like CSE219(200 level) we are dealing with 20,000 lines of code. In Databases we built a competitor to Facebook, etc. In a course like operating systems, a simple assignment would be to write your own version of bash in C, etc, etc.</p>

<p>In conclusion, it would be one of the biggest mistakes of your life to choose Northeastern over Stony Brook if you are a techie guy. With twice as many faculty members(from top notch schools), to more resources, more space, and far more research, it is a no-brainer. All our courses are transparent, look at the assignments, projects,etc.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~insert[/url]”>www.cs.sunysb.edu/~insert</a> course number here.</p>

<p>For example,</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~cse380[/url]”>www.cs.sunysb.edu/~cse380</a>
<a href=“http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~cse219[/url]”>www.cs.sunysb.edu/~cse219</a>
<a href=“http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~cse308[/url]”>www.cs.sunysb.edu/~cse308</a></p>

<p>I highly doubt that Google, along with hundreds of others visit their campus as casually as they visit ours, read this:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/about/news/GoogleContest2011.html[/url]”>http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/about/news/GoogleContest2011.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>^ Well OP’s major is computer engineering not computer science. </p>

<p>Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using CC</p>

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<p>^
I was thinking that too while reading it. It is really assuring to hear from someone who is at the school though. I like how he noted many unique things about Stony Brook that I didn’t know. As for other people also saying it should be my top choice I am really going to look into it more.</p>

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<p>I know that the OP is doing is CpE, but the close nature between CS and CpE is undeniable. All I was trying to do was present some hard facts. I firmly believe that the OP will end up having far more fun at Stony Brook. Who knows, perhaps we can hand him down the torch, so he can continue to kick Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and 67 other’s behind in the ACM competition(Stony Brook thanks to Skiena has a kick-ass ACM team, schools like Princeton and Columbia are our competitors, whom along with 67 other universities we have defeated numerously to be ranked #1 in the region).</p>

<p>Just do some research; cs.stonybrook.edu</p>

<p>Thanks, and good luck!</p>

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<p>You are getting a biased opinion. Stony Brook and Buffalo engineering are in the same level. So, you need to decide by which environment you like…Since you were already accepted to the engineering program at Stony Brook I would recommend that…</p>