<p>I got into both of these schools.</p>
<p>I realize certain schools have better programs, but I'm just curious which one overall has the better reputation in the U.S.</p>
<p>Discuss.</p>
<p>What is your major?</p>
<p>More people have probably have heard of TCU, but that’s not saying a whole lot. </p>
<p>Are you an incoming freshman?</p>
<p>Are both schools affordable?</p>
<p>I’m a freshman. I have a big scholarship to TCU. SBU didn’t offer much in way of financial assistance. </p>
<p>Not sure what I want to study but I love extracurricular activities and the liberal arts.</p>
<p>TCU. Stony Brook is in upper part of Long Island. A good distance from NYC. Its also not a very small school and not very residential…mostly commuters. I would pick TCU.</p>
<p>TCU has a very well known football team, so many people would know it from that. I would say that in the South/Midwest/Texas TCU would be more well-known and in the Northeast Stony Brook would be more well known. However, if there is a big cost difference and (I am presuming you are at TCU) you are happy at TCU, it would make little sense to consider taking out loans for Stony Brook.</p>
<p>Princeton Review surveys students and gets ratings on both Academics and Campus Life, scored on a 60-99 scale. Their Academic rating for Stony Brook is a 68 while their rating for TCU is 77. My own sense would be TCU > Stony Brook too. But PR’s Campus Life rating scores are pretty startling - 66 for Stony Brook and 86 for TCU. You can take their numerical ratings with a grain of salt, but these differences are large and they reflect most of the comments I’ve read on CC about the two schools (and my own experience in visiting TCU). If you love extracurricular activities and the liberal arts, I think you got the big scholarship at the right place.</p>
<p>I agree with willmingtonwave. TCU is probably better known due to their football team. Stony Brook is well known in some social science areas.</p>
<p>These schools are so different that I’m not sure TCU stands for Texas Christian University in this case. Does it?</p>
<p>Also posted in your other thread:</p>
<p>Don’t think I have ever seen TCU and Stony Brook mentioned together for any reason. They have absolutely nothing in common.</p>
<p>As for better reputation, for what? Among whom? Where?</p>
<p>Stony Brook is almost unheard of outside the NY area. TCU may be known in the southwest, but nationally only by sports fans (though having Texas in the name does give some perceived recognition). Both are decent schools, but name recognition and reputation may be nonexistent depending on where you are.</p>
<p>May i ask what your stats were like in order to receive the large scholarship from TCU? If you feel comfortable can you give a general amount of what they are offering? Also, how did you already find out that you were both accepted and given a large scholarship, the EA deadline was Nov 1st…?</p>
<p>Neither, as far as national reputation goes. Both are fine schools, but are really only appreciated in their home regions. And again it’s sort of apples/oranges scenario and a Fool’s Errand trying to compare places that are so dissimilar.</p>
<p>TCU private/Christian, SB public. TCU sprawling metropolitan campus, SB suburban. SB Life Sciences etc; TCU Petroleum, Geological, engineering technology (and Arts) etc. SB many commuters, TCU primarily residential.</p>
<p>I think TCU is a much more popular school – especially with all of their football wins this year. They’ll be in the Rose Bowl at worst – the entire country knows who they are.</p>
<p>Eh, I don’t know about anyone else, but where I’m from (Northeast) TCU doesn’t get anywhere near the recognition described in this thread. Then again, I don’t follow sports.</p>
<p>Rice1961 overstates the case; most people with the thinest knowledge about colleges generally have never heard of TCU and have no inkling of the school’s academic quality, strengths or weaknesses.</p>
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And those same people with thin knowledge have heard of Stony Brook? Once TCU is in the Big East people on the east coast will gain more familiarity with the name.</p>
<p>def one of the strangest school v school questions I have seen on CC…</p>
<p>I guess I would ask the OP, why he/she applied to either of these schools in the first place before I answered a comparison question of this sort…</p>
<p>Several significant differences:</p>
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<li><p>Research: Stony Brook is much more accomplished at the Ph.D. level, especially in sciences and mathematics. It is more research oriented than TCU. Therefore you can say has more academic prestige.</p></li>
<li><p>School Spirit: Stony Brook is much more commuter, and doesn’t have DI sports. Huge difference if you’re into the sports/school spirit scene.</p></li>
<li><p>Location: Stony Brook is suburban, but an hour twenty minute train ride to Manhattan. Long Island weather. TCU is in Ft. Worth, Texas weather.</p></li>
<li><p>Access to Professors: As with any public/smaller private discussion, a very significant difference will be that at TCU you will have professors reaching out to you, and not at SB. This extends to administration… stand in line at SB, walk up to the window at TCU.</p></li>
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<p>I don’t think this question is obvious. I had to google TCU, have never heard of it until today. I’m from New York and Stony Brook is one of our better state schools, especially for the sciences. So I’d say it’s a regional thing.</p>
<p>TCU now that they joined the Big East</p>
<p>TCU is a nice-sized school and the student body seems very friendly. They also have an honors program, which is relatively new, but adds more opportunity to the university.</p>