<p>6th most selective public university? Nearly the bottom of the top 100 colleges ranked by US News? This isn't the type of school I want to "succeed" in.</p>
<p>I got accepted, and am probably going to end up going to SUNY Binghamton Tell me, will it be impossible for me to transfer to schools ranked from NYU (34) to Columbia (9) from a simple public state school?</p>
<p>Not impossible, no. It's what you make of it. If you can stand out as a passionate and solid student, you can take yourself as far as you are willing to go.</p>
<p>When I attended in the 70's, I had at least 5 friends who transferred to Cornell, UPenn and other top schools.....Binghamton is very well respected around the NY area, and if you want to go to law or med school, don't bother transferring....Very high grad school placement......</p>
<p>Not impossible, but rankings are relative and Bing is superb University.
Columbia is overrated, so is Harvard. Princeton is not. NYU totally overrated, I haven't heard one kid saying Iasolutely love NYU, but the city.</p>
<p>I know several students attending "top" law and medical schools. While there are many kids from prestigious undergraduate schools, there is also a sizeable number from lesser-known and lower-ranked schools. Binghamton will get you where you want to go as well as the other schools you mention. The most important factor is you.</p>
<p>Wow, what a bad attitude! Why did you even apply if you felt that going there would "trap" you. Sheesh!! Binghamton is a great school. And it always has been. You haven't even begun to attend there, I believe, and you are already thinking about transferring. Give it and yourself an open and willing chance, and you may very well be pleasantly surprised. Pay less attention to prestige and USNWR rankings and do some research on Binghamton's web site to try to fall in love with this school. Get over your preconceived notions.</p>
<p>It hurts to think you are to go to Bing to transfer. They are so many kids wanting your spot, and you don't even like going there? I would go with a better attidude to my fresman year, and make the best of the school that has everything for you to succeed. It is well recognized and respected nationwide.</p>
<p>To franglish and Multitasker:</p>
<p>I don't care about how "respected" the school is, or how happy I might be going there. By my first year of high school I had so much drive and determination, which totally disappeared sophomore year. After wasting much of my time playing videogames I lost all sight of academic success. By the time I realized how much academics really meant to me, I was a junior, with a 3.3 GPA.</p>
<p>Now Binghamton might be great for people who are satisfied with just being adequate or with a "names don't matter, undergrad schools don't matter anyway" attitude, but I'm not one of those people. I really want to go to a school where nearly all the students are motivated and the competition is cutthroat.</p>
<p>BU might be better than most of the nation's colleges, but it is no where near the best, and that's what I've been striving for the past year (Yes, I know most high schoolers with goals like mine usually strive for them from freshman year). I'm willing to give up all vacations and other windows of freedom to end up graduating from the some of the best schools in the nation.</p>
<p>To 44100Hertz, Rodney, and Multitasker:</p>
<p>Thanks for the responses.</p>
<p>Xehanort: you are so wrong, sweetie!
Good luck in whatever you do, I'm just saying you are confusing apples and oranges.
Names are just that:names, and I believe your parents may be influencing you by comparing you to other classmates of yours, or among parents who sometimes love to brag about where their kids go.
I will not be attending Bing for money issues, and I "settled" for GWU, because I got 24k of money, whigh helps, because is closer to my hometown, driving distance.
SO people who are accepted in "better schools" also would have loved to attend Bing, and personally I think you are insulting a few here, since Binghanton has more prestige than you think.
You have made a very inmature comment, and I wish you luck, but I hope you can become a better person after you finish the prestigiuos college of your choice.</p>
<p>I'll play along with you. Here's a question: Why would these "top" schools want a slacker (you) who suddenly decided he wanted the "best" (as defined by rather random rankings?) The kids who attend the schools you referenced (#34-9) were working hard as sophmores and juniors when you were playing video games. What makes you think you "deserve" to compete with them? BTW, my oldest went to an Ivy. Talk about "prestige and competitiveness" would get you laughed off campus. Time to grow up!</p>
<p>xehanort - my parents would love you. wanting to be in a brand name school because of the name and prestige. i WISH i was in your position, with binghamton as my only choice. because i have elitist, asian parents, they are pretty much forcing me to go to upenn because it's a fancy ivy league. and take it from someone who got accepted into one of these nice name schools - i should be "smart," right? - i want to go to binghamton because i HONESTLY believe i can make more out of it. i got into one of the best undergraduate business schools in the country, and into the honors program, too, and i'm proud of that. if you really are that ambitious, you'll end up with just as nice of a salary in 20 years as you would if you have a degree from a nice name school. i wouldn't judge the school just because it's public and a SUNY.</p>
<p>Multitasker, my parents are actually "proud" that I got into Binghamton. My parents are simpleton idiots satisfied with their adequate lifestyle. Also, I don't really care for bragging rights. As far as I'm concerned, if you don't go to Princeton, Harvard, Yale, or MIT, you basically fail at life. The best colleges are the only ones that matter to me. So if a parent told me, "my child went to Yale," I would say, "That's great..." If a parent told me, "my child went to SUNY bing," I would probably respond, "oh..."</p>
<p>Honestly how many students who qualify to go to the best schools in the nation do you think even look at Binghamton? Let alone apply and enroll there.</p>
<p>If Binghamton is so great, why aren't they at least the 2nd most selective public university in the US? If they're so great why are their standards so low?</p>
<p>Xehanort - I almost think your post is a prank but assuming it is for real the best thing that you could do is don't go to Binghamton opening up a spot for someone more deserving then you. You are already on record that you won't like it and it is beneath you so why bother. The only thing that going to an upscale university verses Binghamton will guarantee is not success but a lot of debt. You will be surprise how many successful people have gone to public schools (especially Binghamton) or didn't even complete their education. After a few years out in the working world what school you went is generally is not a major factor, its what you know that counts. To me that the average student at this simple public school properly has way more smarts then you anyway. Therefore using your logic maybe Binghamton is not beneath you after all.</p>
<p>Xehanort: So that begs the question...why didn't you apply to Princeton, Harvard, Yale, or MIT? And I'm sorry, but coming in here saying that people that don't go to those universities "fail at life" is very insulting indeed. And to call your parents simpleton idiots? Seriously, I think you need to check your attitude.</p>
<p>Xehanort – </p>
<p>What a maroon.</p>
<p>By your standards, any school other than those you mentioned is worthless. Thankfully there are other schools which graduate successful adults. To name one (and my S isn’t going there), read about the City University of New York. Yes, that’s right, plain old CUNY:</p>
<p>"CUNY graduates include 11 Nobel Laureates-10 scientists and an economist-among the highest numbers from any public university in the country. A U.S. Secretary of State, a Supreme Court Justice, mayors, members of Congress, state legislators, an astronaut, actors, singers, composers, writers, and inventors are among outstanding alumni. More top U.S. corporate executives earned their bachelor's degrees at The City University of New York than at any other university in the country, according to the most recent national survey conducted by Standard & Poor's."</p>
<p>"CUNY is one of the nation's leading producers of black and Hispanic engineers and physicians. CUNY colleges are among the top sources of doctoral, baccalaureate and master's degrees earned by minority students in all disciplines, according to Black Issues in Higher Education. Five CUNY community colleges rank among the top 26 in the nation as a source of associate degrees in all disciplines awarded to minority students, according to Community College Week."</p>
<p>From: www1.cuny.edu/about/invest-in-cuny/campaign/cuny-history.html</p>
<p>Go find your ideal school. The rest of your competitors will be more than adequately serviced by, and will receive wonderful educations at any of the hundreds of other excellent colleges and universities throughout the United States and the rest of the world.</p>
<p>You’d better grow up, kid.</p>
<p>Xehanort: you are a brat and I'm sorry for your parents.
I hope you turn around once you mature a little more.
Nothing more to say or waste my time with your stupid comments, and by the way, you should be more grateful to your parents, you'll be a parent one day, I hope your kids don't think of you as an idiot.</p>
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<p>plenty -- who know a great bargain when they see it and value the idea of leaving their undergrad years with little if any debt.</p>
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<p>the fact is that public universities primarily service students from their own state. nys is blessed with a very extensive suny system. there is no one flagship school. those wanted a selective lac can to geneseo. those wanted a large university with an emphasis on science can go to stony brook. binghamton fills one nitch in the suny system. </p>
<p>you are confusing selectivity rankings with the quality of the students and the education. i hope your analytical skills improve if you hope to achieve the academic success you seek.</p>
<p>your post reminds me of an old groucho marx joke -- about not wanting to belong to any club that would have him as a member.</p>
<p>Xehanort, I got accepted into the University of Pennsylvania, Duke, Cornell, and other nice name schools (and I don't mean to say that to show off or brag - I actually want to go to Binghamton), so I hope you have some amount of respect for me, and I hope you will take my words into consideration since I'm so "smart" and I don't "fail at life."</p>
<p>I've come to the conclusion that you should NOT strive to go to these nice name schools because you are just too stupid for them, and you won't get in. If your logic tells you that you "fail at life" if you don't go to these nice name schools, then you really are an idiot, and I suggest you redo your 12 years of schooling to fix this misconception and to hopefully eliminate any other illogical fallacies your immature mind conceives. Normally I'd place blame on the parents for raising you to think like this, but clearly, that it is not the case.</p>
<p>Let me present some facts. I have two family friends who graduated from Yale, and they are so unsuccessful that they had to move to Canada to find a decent job. I also know several people who graduated from Binghamton (and other "bad" schools) who now have a much higher salary than many people I know who graduated from those nice name schools.</p>
<p>I don't think I've ever been this shocked and bothered by a post on College Confidential.</p>
<p>Don't plan on having a child. Don't plan on getting married either.</p>
<p>You mean that nobody is willing to have sex with you..and that you're not even gonna try convincing anyone to marry ypu.</p>