Yes, before housing sign-ups, students will be able to join a Facebook group usually named “Binghamton Class of 20XX.” Students usually post about themselves and try to connect with other students to find a roommate. Students will also take a quiz on the housing portal and write a biography to connect with other students there as well.
Hi my daughter just got accepted to CCPA and is so excited to attend. She is doing a gap year program abroad first so she will start in Fall 2021. Is there a Bing student in this forum who deferred who who could give us advice about which are the best classes or GE requirements to knock off during the gap year and how the housing will work with students who defer? TIA (p.s. I’ve been an attorney for 20 years at a law firm and in house positions so I’m happy to swap advice about law school and law careers for advice re Binghamton!)
Good morning. We have a daughter who was deferred from Early Action to Regular Decision. In-state. Binghamtom is her first choice with 1320 SAT/95 GPA, lots of EC’s and coming from a truly competitive high school. Is there anyone who was in a similar situation who migh be able to give us some pointers towards acceptance on Regular Decision ? It would be greatly apprecaiated.
How’s the social/party life at Binghamton
My daughter is really interested in the schools that have Co-op programs in order to get real-life experience. How is the internship program at Bing? She’s going into Engineering this Fall.
Hey question, I was accepted into the Binghamton College of Management, and I am interested in investment banking. Would you happen to know how Binghamton’s placement is? From what I hear it’s average; isn’t terrible but isn’t great either. Anything that you might know?
Thanks!
Current SUNY Bing students- I’d love to know about the workload you have experienced so far. Outside of the classroom, how many hours on average, would you say you are doing academics (homework, studying, projects, essays etc)? I’m concerned that I would be spending so many hours on work, that there wouldn’t be time for all the extracurriculars. I’m a good, hardworking student, but I certainly am not at the top of the accepted student statistics. It takes me longer to get through my work than most but I am very diligent. I don’t want to be in over my head because it seems that Bing students are at the top of their high school class. I will be taking Micro and Macroeconomics along with Gen Eds next year, so comments on any of this would be most appreciated.
I am admitted to Harpur (Economics) and was wondering how many hours you spend on work outside of the classroom doing homework, essays, reading, projects etc. I know it varies throughout different majors and times during the semester(ie:finals) but I’m looking for an average for the gen ed classes and economics. I’m a good, diligent student, but it does take me longer to do my work than most. When people post their (or their kid’s) SATs, and stats, they seem to be higher than mine. I am wondering if there is anyone that can comment that has average or low average stats. I want to make sure I choose a school where I can keep up comfortably and have time for extracurriculars. I may want to transfer to the business school, so I will have to keep up at least a 3.5 average. Do you know about the rigor of the business school?
Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions. @slytherclaw
You wouldn’t have been admitted if they didn’t feel you could keep up with the work. My son is a freshman with a GPA of about 3.6 and did not get into SOM. Do not assume you will be able to easily do that. Many students have to apply multiple times. I personally know a student who is a rising junior and just got accepted for the current semester.
As far as how much work you will have to do, yes, there will be enough work to keep you busy, but not so much that you will have no time for anything else. It’s college, not high school. Assume that studying comes first.
Hello! Thank you for your response. I agree that studying comes first. Is it possible for your son to comment on the specifics of his workload and how difficult it was for him to get a 3.6. Was he at the top of his high school class?
I’m surprised that a 3.6 wasn’t high enough to get him into SOM; this is important for me to consider. I wish him the best of luck on his next application to SOM! @Lindagaf
No, he definitely wasn’t at the top of his high school class, haha. He worked reasonably hard for his 3.6, but there is no doubt, he could have worked harder. He is playing as much as he is working, by my estimation. Let’s put it this way: if he spent less time playing, his grades would have been higher. Oh well, he is learning the hard way. How many hours he worked is going to be different to how many hours you might work, and it’s going to depend on course schedule too.
SOM is competitive. Basically, get a 4.0 or as close to it as possible. The guy I know who just got in had a 4.0.
Thank you
How would you rate the Political Science department? also if you compared it to Stony Brook?
I’m a current Political Science student at BU, and I absolutely love the professors. With every department at any college, there will be great professors and not so great professors. However I’ve never had terrible experiences. 
Which laptops do students at bing usually use? I am going to be a math major in Harpur.
Do you know how the Computer Science Dept is there?
@smileyodell imo you can use pretty much any laptop. A lot of people have Macs if they know they won’t be using a lot of programs. I don’t think you’d be running many programs as a math major. If you end up needing some programs that only run on PCs, you can use the virtual desktop but that lowk sucks. It’s usually pretty slow and you can get kicked off sometimes depending on how many people are using it at one time. As an engineer, I’ve seen a lot of people using surfaces, but idk if you’d really need that as a math major unless you wanna take electronic notes
@ACatSLP
I don’t know THAT much about it, only what some friends have said. Because of the way that professors grade code, it can make it really hard to work with other students. Any similarities in code can count as academic dishonesty (cheating) so from what I’ve heard people don’t really work together or help each other much cause it can bite you in the butt. People have said that makes it a more competitive environment. On the upside, if you have ANY interpersonal skills, you’ll be graduating with a job.
@hosbrook41
This is probably WAAAAY too late but some of this would apply to any school that your daughter picked. Binghamton’s engineering programs are very regimented. If you miss or don’t pass a class for whatever reason it’s probably not offered again until next year (not next semester) and most classes are a prerequisite for another class the next semester. There are some exceptions, especially for ISEs, but for the most part if you miss a class, you’ll be staying for another year. That includes for a co-op. Two of my friends decided to take a semester off for co-ops and they both loved it and said it was completely with it. One of them only took one semester off (the other did two so-ops) and talked to advising and worked out a way to still walk at graduation when she would’ve and take the few classes remaining the next semester and over the summer. So it’s possible if you’re willing to work your ass off and plan for it, but it’s not easy.
Binghamton doesn’t have a specific internship program to help you get an internship. Applying to internships, and interviewing is up to the student to do, but there are a bunch of resources to help. SHPE, NSBE, SASE, SWE, Theta Tau and Alpha Omega Epsilon (my personal fav and the most helpful to me) are some extracurriculars that employers like to see on a resume and they can help you network and prepare to apply and interview. I recommend going to Watson Career and Alumni Connections over the Fleishmen (idk how to spell it) Center for engineers when it comes to resume and cover letter help. Binghamton has a job and internship fair every semester that has mostly business and engineering companies that’s a good opportunity to talk to employers, and they recently started having a STEM specific job and internship fair so that’ll probably help too. In general, fairs at your university can be a bit harder to get something at (at least for engineers) because most people that they talk to will have very similar stuff on their resume. Still better than online though! I got my internship and full-time job from SHPE national conference. I HIGHLY recommend national and regional conferences. It helps in sooooo many ways. If you take anything from this, take this: GO TO A CONFERENCE!!!
btw I’m the same person as sfernan6. I’m just dumb and forgot the login info 
I occasionally log in and answer questions when I remember