| I understand your dissappointment. My suggestion would be to consider the schools you have been admitted to, and then add the others to the mix when and if you are accepted. There are some big differences in the 3 you are already in, of course:
UB is a 4 year pre-professional degree program with a good reputation, and the price is right. There is a high degree of attrition in the UB program, but that's probably because not all of those who enter the program are so sure they want to become architects. When they encounter the work load inherent in an architecture program, some opt out. Again, UB is the only program of it's kind in the SUNY system, students seem to love Buffalo, and it's said to be a good program.
VT is one of the top rated BArch programs in the country (actually #1 in DI08). I'm not sure why we never fully investigated this school with my son, but we didn't. How is campus life at VT?...great football and basketball teams, but does most of the student population head home on the weekends? Is this important to you? Because, unless I totally misunderstand what all you guys are getting into, you're not going anywhere! LOL!!
UM is a very good, but un-rated BArch program. We've had trouble comparing the program there to others, because most discussions here and in the printed resources we have found center on the top 10-20 "ranked" programs in the country. I dont think the ranking of a school should be the reason you decide to go, if it was you should forget the rest and go to VT. You have to visit, you have to investigate student work, the faculty, the facilities, and the school itself.
Don't bother yourself with the schools you haven't heard from yet. You have a wide range of choices with clear-cut differences already. Consider yourself lucky, and move foward from the dissappointment of PSU. You already know you will be going to a great school.
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