<p>i got accepted into all three schools but i got a Presidential Scholarship from Albany for 4,000 a year. (2,000 per semester). Is this the honors program? I got into all the schools for Computer Science but I'm not so sure i want to major in that anymore. which school would be best for business (finance/management)? but if i end up sticking with comp sci, which school is best for that?</p>
<p>anyways, im looking for a more city like environment because i am from NYC. Money is sort-of an issue because i will have to take out loans if i go to Binghamton or Stony. Albany is almost free for me with the grants and scholarship. </p>
<p>i plan on going to grad school so that is also why i want to spend less on undergrad. which one of these SUNYs would look best when i am entering a grad school?</p>
<p>GOTTA MAKE DECISIONS IN A MONTH! please help me out.</p>
<p>thank you for taking your time to read this!</p>
<p>Im leaning on going to Albany, got accepted as OOS. I applied to both Bing. and Albany, but Bing. still has yet to give me any word. Im a transfer student, and member of PTK, pretty high GPA 3.65. I’m curious as to how you get that presidential scholarship (was it something you had to apply for?) Im curious because I rely on Grants to go to school now, and I know I have the grades to hopefully make some merit based scholarships. </p>
<p>As far as what your looking for, I’d say Albany and Stony Brook as far as Populated city area wise. Downtown Albany is pretty sweet, some old historical buildings and I love the architecture of the capitol region. Stony Brook your closest to NYC, however I hear that place is a ghost town on weekends. Binghamton, is a run-down blue collar town. May be a culture shock if your used to NYC. </p>
<p>Im in a different Maj. than you though. I am a Philosophy Maj. hoping to apply that to Law. The Capital has it’s benefits for this, so it suits me. As far as you planning on attending graduate school, I’d say it is probably of not much importance out of the 3 which you select for under-grad, If you have the full-ride scholarship I’d take that at Albany. Hope that helped a little, good luck.</p>
<p>Oh , and as far as not being sure what to major in, don’t sweat it. You should focus on Liberal Arts/Gen. ed your first 2 years any way. Get a feel of what you like and want to do more of, then pursue that. Many people make the mistake of selecting a major without a true taste of what they really want, they complete half their credits and realize “hey I don’t really like this”.</p>
<p>i applied to all the schools regularly, without applying for any honors programs. Albany just sent me the financial aid thing and it included a scholarship. </p>
<p>i pretty much crossed off albany because my guidance counselor said stony and bing are better schools. im going to be visiting both schools in the next month.
so should i know be only thinking about bing and stony or reconsider albany? what do you guys think?</p>
<p>I received 10k from each due to grants. Each school is also offering Federal Direct subsidized loans and Federal Direct unsub loans equal to 5.5k. What’s the significance of these loans and what is the difference between sub and unsub?</p>
<p>The difference between subsidized and unsub is this -</p>
<p>With a sub loan, you don’t pay interest while you’re in school or in the deferral period; it is paid for you by the gov’t or subsidized.</p>
<p>With an unsub loan, you still have to pay the interest while in school.</p>
<p>I turned down all unsub loans for my D. Instead, I borrowed from my home equity line of credit because at least that interest is tax deductible to me.</p>
<p>I also was able to turn down all subbed loans because she got enough scholarships and other FA.</p>
<p>As for the 2 schools, they are SO different. One is a small LAC type school and the other is huge. What is your comfort zone? My H majored in psych but said the English dept was awesome, however, that was 30 years ago. My friend’s D is at NP taking English and really enjoying it as well.</p>
<p>i have been offered 10.5k from Grants and 1.5k for Work Study (12k total). I still need to come up with about 10k (i heard the total for tuition and room&board is around 22k) <em>correct me if i’m wrong</em>. if i take the 3.5k sub loan, i am still short 6.5k. What’s the best way to cover that?</p>
<p>UAlbany is known as a party school and the dorms are pits. The entire campus is a series of almost identical quads with modern concrete and steel buildings. Not much to look at but a lot of diversity of offerings. (Just went to accepted student day last weekend). I was not impressed but it could be fine for a motivated student, otherwise you could get lost.
Stonybrook clears out on weekends I hear. Otherwise it is a good school.
Binghamton is known as one of the best SUNYs but it does not have the same gov’t/business connections as UAlbany.</p>
<p>thanks for the info. what if im still exploring my major and wondering what i want to do? which school would be best for that? I was also accepted into Buffalo with the 11k grant along with an additional 2.5k a year for a merit scholarship. is buffalo good?</p>
<p>I just received my financial aid package from UAlbany, Surprisingly I’m not getting to much covered in grants which really blows for me, but eh what ev’s. Can’t complain I got 2 years of college education for free so far.</p>
<p>There isn’t really any school that is suited for being unsure of your major, actually if you didn’t have all that free grant aid to pretty much go to these Universities very cheap, I’d say your best option is community college for a couple years. I would go to the most affordable institution that fits your needs (for you Albany or Buffalo). Both are still cities so it won’t be complete culture shock, both are good schools,and both are providing you with almost a free education. You can always go and get your gen ed.'s out of the way your first 2 years at one of these places, and once you decide on something you like and want to pursue more, you can transfer somewhere’s else if you decide to. </p>
<p>Best advice I can give you, is take things a step at a time. Don’t make certain plans for something years down the road on a loosely based feeling. You have plenty of time to figure things out, and get a feel for what you want to do. I wasn’t sure what I was going to major in until this year,and Im at the end of my sophomore year.</p>
Binghamton is actually more competitive to get in than Stony Brook
I would say it is up to you on where to go, do you value accepting a relatively worse school for 4K a year? , if so then go to Albany. </p>
<p>Binghamton is academically challenging, and you surround yourself with motivated students. I have had friends that have went to all these schools, those that went to Albany and party schools, were MOSTLY concerned about partying only, and school was not a big priority. At binghamton and stony brook, school is a huge priority, but binghamton students have far more fun than stony brook students.</p>
<p>ALSO, binghamton has a great accounting program, and an OKAY finance program. </p>
<p>Here are some stats, even though no research is rock solid, its a starting place.( binghamton is ranked number 37 in the country for business schools, i dont think Albany or STony is ranked here) :
<a href=“Bloomberg - Are you a robot?”>Bloomberg - Are you a robot?;
<p>Overall: </p>
<p>Stony Brook: Great academically, horrible socially
Albany : Okay academically, awesome socially
Binghamton: Great academically, pretty good socially.</p>
<p>np, so my input put you over the hump correct ? haha. you will love Binghamton. Also, what are you planning to study at binghamton? I can recommend some great classes to take if you would like.</p>
<p>No offense but your comment comes of as incredibly pretentious. You can’t label a school not good because of a reputation for having kids who like partying, and I really don’t believe that Bing. “dominates” Albany academically. I would contest that you can get a better education at a community college than at some “higher ranked” schools. It’s really all what you make of it and how you apply yourself as a student. All colleges differ in different focuses of area and subject of study. While Bing may have more reputable departments in some areas, Albany , Stony Brook, or wherever will have stronger or more reputable departments in other areas. </p>
<p>To come out and say Albany is “relatively worse” is just flat out pretentious and sort of pompous. This is coming from someone who has been accepted to both schools, Im still undecided on where I will go, but for my needs Im leaning about 65% towards attending Albany.</p>
<p>beatrixkiddo, I agree with you on some level. But let me advise you on one thing, I have met plenty of students, and have researched plenty of statistics on each school, especially graduate schools, and what schools they typically accept students from.</p>
<p>You are correct to say some community colleges will teach you better than “higher” ranked schools, but at the end of the day, a more reputable school will get you the better job/career for the MOST PART. you will enter the real world and start to understand how the education system is run. It is not always fair. </p>
<p>A student from cornell, regardless of how much more intellectually advanced/not advanced he is over a Binghamton student, will get a job over a binghamton student at a certain bank, not because he knows more, but because Cornell is a more reputable school. I have heard plenty of these situations happening.</p>
<p>Albany is not up to parr with Binghamton academically. I have taken classes at several state schools and see a large difference in difficulty and expectations from each school.</p>
<p>You will be challenged far greater at Binghamton, being surrounded by many students that have been accepted to several Ivy league schools, and other very highly ranked schools. Albany , from what I understand, wont be close to the same. Dont get me wrong, Albany is deff a legit university, and you can accomplish anything going to any school, but the question is how EASY will it be to do so, and it will be easier to accomplish what you want at Binghamton. </p>
<p>Experiences that I have learned from other people and myself as a senior in college are very important I believe, and I try to share that with all of those that are younger than me. I was clueless about the application process and the school selection process when I was a high school senior, and I wish all of you the best of luck.</p>
<p>I am not trying to say use these statistics as your sole basis for choosing a school, but without a doubt you can clearly see the difference of standards each school has to offer in regards to caliber of students( or their test taking abilities). This supports my statement that you will surround yourself with higher caliber students, this does not necessarily support the fact you will " learn more" or less from each school. </p>
<p>Overall, it depends what you want to go for. For MOST areas of subjects , Binghamton would be the best choice, I would guess only a few of which Albany might really surpass Binghamton at. </p>
<p>Binghamton Is very strong in sciences and business ( especially accounting).</p>