<p>Which school is better known for engineering/computer science? Also at Stony Brook, which is better - the Honors Program or University Scholars? Which one is harder to get into?</p>
<p>I am a first semester Sophmore and I say Computer Science is hard. I am sure I get at least a A- this semester, but I worked to the point that I can sleep with cups of coffee. If you are a freshman, your schedule will have a better gap. I am a transfer, I had to take CSE 219 and CSE 373 to get into the major. CSE 219 asked me to create Half-Hearthstone in about 1.5 months. And CSE 373, you sit with a group of graduate students. I found it challenging when I don’t get on campus housing as a transfer. I had to bike 15 minutes to the South Parking lot and take 10 minutes school bus in this rainy Stony Brook. The computer science professors are Okay, CSE 219 's professor(I don’t want to give name) is the worst so far. Even today, I don’t get any email regarding providing an opportunity for these transfers to return to on campus housing. The administration in this school is garbage when compare to their education. They “encourage” you to get involved, but they don’t give you a on campus housing to do that. Their housing department treat me like one of those on campus students that left for off campus and currently trying to return. The housing wait list is hopeless, I don’t see the point that people are spreading good words about this school in this forum. Those people don’t even know how much blood are on their hands.</p>
<p>@BusyBug You did not even remotely answer my question.</p>
<p>You know why?
Simple answer: Stony Brook > Binghamton in learning Computer Science. I am not in any honor program. Stony Brook has better reputation ( way better) in Computer Science than Binghamton in Computer Science. That serves your question. And you will be like okay, 1 vote to Stony Brook.
I am telling you that you should choose college wisely. Learning is difficult when your environment is not comfortable. I used to think that environment does not matter. Now I find it wrong in the hard way. No, I did not give up because it was difficult. I just hate how they(not professors) do things. You can take me as an hater, I will be the hater that has >3.5 GPA.</p>
<p>@BusyBug Thanks, I will definitely consider the environment when applying to schools - good point :)</p>
<p>Honors harder to get into. I believe about 50 students in honors. University Scholars is also a good program, I think about 250 (top7percent) get into this. </p>