<p>there is an honors program but only a limited number of students are accepted to it. There is nothing you can do about it, it depends on your grades and SAT scores. You will be notified if you are admitted</p>
<p>For housing for freshman, when you log into the reslife website at reslife.binghamton.edu you will be asked to rank your housing preferences from 1-5 in terms of the communities in which you wish to live. You will also be asked to answer a few basic questions that they use to help place you. You will hear your community assignment around early July and the placement of the exact room in August.</p>
<p>Once you have a binghamton email address, you can go to erecruiting.binghamton.edu and log in. Then click federal work study jobs both on and off campus and those are the available jobs for you to choose from.</p>
<p>Transfering into SOM from Harpur is competitive. I believe that you need a GPA of around a 3.8 in order to transfer and even then that is if there are spots available.</p>
<p>i was wondering how to change my major if its staying in the same school. Like CS to Bioengineering is staying in Watson school.</p>
<p>I believe that you can just go to your advisor and tell them you want to switch. I know that with Harpur, you can go to the dept in which you are majoring and tell them you want to drop that major and then go to the other dept and add that major.</p>
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<p>If you’re a recently accepted student, you can contact admissions. I was accepted on January 15 for CS, and switched to Computer Engineering before February 1. If it’s in the same school, and the major doesn’t have any “different” requirements, then there should be no problems.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that all engineering majors have the same first year, so you can change your mind about which field of engineering sometime during freshman year (ie: computer engineering switching to electrical engineering). If you’re in CS, though, I’m not sure how it works … it’s a very different path than any of the other engineering courses.</p>
<p>I initially contacted the Watson Advising department, but they forwarded my request to admissions – we aren’t students there yet.</p>
<p>I’m considering applying to Bing. Other schools I’m considering include an Ivy League university and other top public universities throughout North America. As such, I had some questions.</p>
<p>Of what quality are the academics? How challenging are classes in general? How many hours does one normally have to put in per week outside of class?</p>
<p>What does the teaching style tend to be like? Does it tend to be primarily lecture based? Are there opportunities to engage in discussion?</p>
<p>Also, I actually like the fact that Bing isn’t a rah-rah school. Even so, I have some questions about the overall environment. This is a concern because I’ve had serious problems at another state school in the past.</p>
<p>To what extent does the Greek system dominate campus social life? Is the social life limited for those who don’t want to go Greek? On a related note, what percentage of students go Greek? I was able to find a stat for the percentage who live in Greek houses (which happily is in the single digits), but am having trouble finding stats for overall membership.</p>
<p>Do Bing students tend to be tolerant of different kinds of people? Or is a student who doesn’t fit the mold going to be given a hard time by other students?</p>
<p>I’ve heard a couple reports that Bing students tend to be cliquey. Is this accurate? Do the different groups on campus get along with each other, or is the atmosphere divisive?</p>
<p>Thanks for all the time you put into answering these questions!</p>
<p>Depending on the program, the academics are very good. One of my friends told me that for instance the Anthropology program is one of the top in the country. The classes are generally not too terrible in terms of how challenging they are. It really will depend upon the professor and the teaching assistants that you get assigned. Some are harder graders than others. The introductory classes are generally the largest lectures which have a maximum of about 350 students. As you go up in level of classes they tend to become smaller. Some of my seminars and art classes are between 10-20 people. Most classes that are for full credit (4 credits) are 3 hours of class a week (generally split into 3 - 1hr classes or 2 - 1.5 classes). Outside work varies between the classes you take. Some will require more reading while others generally will require more writing. </p>
<p>The amount of students that are involved in greek life is not a large percentage. I believe it is about 7-10% of the student body. However, there are two types of greek life. There is the pre-professional fraternities/sororities in which there is an educational purpose behind them and there are social fraternities. Generally if you choose not to join this community it doesn’t affect you at all so you won’t feel out of place for this decision.</p>
<p>Binghamton students are generally very tolerant of each other. I mean you always have those few exceptions but we have so many student groups that surround different ethnicities. In terms of the cliques, it can go either way. Some people prefer to stick with their own group of people while others like to jump in and meet other people and expand their group of friends.</p>
<p>Thank you for your response, Jana.</p>
<p>I’m actually more concerned about being underworked than overworked.</p>
<p>Also, I’m not concerned about the occasional exception. There are idiots everywhere. I’m concerned about overall tendencies.</p>
<p>As it happens, I’m going on a roadtrip this weekend and will be near the campus. Obviously, there won’t be any classes in session. Even so, where are some places to go to get a feel for the campus?</p>
<p>On weekends people are still around campus just not in class. I mean you can come to campus and take a self-guided tour if you haven’t seen the campus. I know that you can take a tour this weekend but I don’t know specific times. Otherwise I suggest just driving around the area and you can sort of get an idea as to what there is to do. Vestal Parkway in which the school is on, has a lot of shopping places and Walmart and restaurants.</p>
<p>This might be a dumb/weird question…but what happens if I bring a pet like a lizard on campus? What are the chances they’ll find out and what happens if they do?</p>
<p>There are no pets allowed in the dorms except a fish I believe (and even that has to be within a certain size tank). If they catch you you can be written up and you will be told that you need to get rid of it. If they catch you a second time you can wind up with judicial action against you I believe. I just suggest that you do not bring up your lizard.</p>
<p>As for Housing-mates, do you recommend finding people on facebook…where they post up answers to questions?
Or do you recommend the random pairing??</p>
<p>I remember you said you lived in a suite. And that was with 6ppl?? Is it common that the group splits into 2 and 3 person groups? How was your dorming experience? Did you get along with your roommates?</p>
<p>thanks,
Carmen</p>
<p>Carmen, </p>
<p>I personally think that you get the “real college experience” if you randomly get put with a roommate. Most of the time people do get along or at least get along to the point of being able to live with each other. Every once in a while you get people who you don’t get along with. </p>
<p>I did live in a suite for two years and I decided to do random both years (even as a sophomore). My suite freshman year was all girls but very ethnic. My roommate was Romanian, I had an african american suitemate, a girl who was korean and the other 2 were Caucasian like myself. Some of us were close while others of us had some issues. The only recommendation that I have, is that if you are having problems do not wait to let your Resident Assistant (RA) know. They are there to help you with your problems before anything escalates out of control. My suite my 2nd year was much better in terms of everyone getting along. I also was on a chemical free floor my sophomore year which was nice in a way since I am not a big partier. So that could have also helped my better sophomore experience. I am not not on campus anymore but I am what they call a “hinman fellow” who basically is alum of that community who comes back and is still involved in community activities.</p>
<p>Jana</p>
<p>You could pretty easily get away with having a pet lizard, especially if you’re in a suite…just gotta keep it in your actual room. But if you do decide to bring it, definitely dont bring it the first week – too many people going in and out and whatnot. Also, its definitely in your best interest to ask your roommate if he is alright with having a pet lizard in the room…some (probably a lot) would not really enjoy it, and it would be pretty disrespectful to bring it without asking your roommate beforehand. Don’t want to start off a semester-long relationship with your roommate in a bad way.</p>
<p>I was just researching the campus map and I noticed that Bing has a billiards… is it nice? how many tables?</p>
<p>Can external transfer students join Price Water House Honors Program?
How hard is it compare to a regular SOM program?
Thank you</p>
<p>hi, so do you find that its hard to get studying done in newing or ciw? like if you want a good mix between partying and studying, would you recommend ciw, newing or dickinson?</p>
<p>Shimshimhey - We do have a billiards room and a 10 lane bowling alley. They are in the old union which is closed for renovation this school year. It is supposed to reopen for the fall. I believe there are about 10 or so pool tables.</p>
<p>Capwoo - I don’t think you can join the PWC honors program. You must be invited into it and I believe that about 25-35 students were selected this year.</p>
<p>Collegeperson - I had a friend who lived in CIW and Hinman before moving off campus. She said that CIW was much noisier than Hinman. I think any place you dorm is going to be a mix of partying and studying, especially on the weekends.</p>