<p>These are two semi different schools but it's definitely between these two.</p>
<p>I'm probably going to major in computer science or some kind of engineering but i'm not 100% sure.</p>
<p>I would assume Rochester's education may be somewhat better but Binghamton is much more affordable.</p>
<p>They climate and environment is somewhat similar but that isn't much of a problem for me as i'm pretty used to the weather living in NYC.</p>
<p>What really matters to me is the education to price factor, is rochester really worth 3x the money? Being that I received a 10k scholarship. Would I still have the same chances at being admitted to a good grad school etc?</p>
<p>Any advice / input would be greatly appreciated. THANKS!</p>
<p>I am choosing Rochester over Bing. Smaller class sizes and much more flexible curriculum.
Bing only offered loans for Financial aid. It will be cheaper for me to go to Rochester with over almost 40K in grants and merit aid per year. Bing much lower in stats and rankings if you are into that. U of R is actually ranked internationally as well as 35th nationally. Bing and all SUNY is really getting hammered by the state budget crisis. Plus I will be on the track team.</p>
<p>One thing I suspect private schools may offer is support when things go wrong. I went to a private college and looked at private and state schools for my kids. I decided on private schools because some of them provide more support. This is particularly true at UR, which has the Dlions and Freshman fellows in dorms. This is really important because even if you don’t need the support yourself, your life may be impacted by the other students around you. When I was in college, I knew several guys who might have hurt themselves or other people had there not been a strong institutional support system, and I know I would have been affected by watching students living on my hall self-destruct.</p>
<p>“Would I still have the same chances of being admitted to a good grad school?”</p>
<p>It isn’t the undergraduate school you attend that gets you into grad school, it is how you perform as a student, your GRE scores and your recommendations. A student with a 3.9 GPA, an excellent GRE score and glowing recommendations from Binghamton is going to get the nod over a Harvard grad with a “Gentleman’s C,” mediocre test scores and evasive recs every time.</p>
<p>If you are looking at >40K in additional debt in order to attend U of R you are probably paying too much.</p>
<p>To some extent it is the undergraduate school you attend. You will find that most medical, law, and some other graduate school programs place more value on a 3.5 from a more competitive, harder to get into, undergraduate school than they do a 3.5 from a less competitive college. A 3.4 with an B.S. in Animal Science from Cornell will get you into a Vet School more easily than a 3.8 from Rutgers, for example.</p>
<p>Binghamton has the talented students, but they just can’t get over the hurdle to be one of the best publics… If I was a NY resident, it would be silly for me to turn down Binghamton for Rochester.</p>
<p>Go to Rochester Zob. It is cheaper for me to go there as opposed to Bing too and I see smaller classes and more flexibility/options at U of R as well. Things at SUNY’s are going to go downhill fast with NYS budget crisis - bigger classes, poorer service, etc… Even after the fiinancial meltdown U of R still has a 1.2 billion endowment which is darn good for a school it’s size.</p>
<p>Go to Rochester Inordinate. It is cheaper for me to go there as opposed to Bing too and I see smaller classes and more flexibility/options at U of R as well. Things at SUNY’s are going to go downhill fast with NYS budget crisis - bigger classes, poorer service, etc… Even after the fiinancial meltdown U of R still has a 1.2 billion endowment which is darn good for a school it’s size.</p>