Binghamton or Stonybrook?

jringo718
Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:16:29 +0000

Hey, I know you made your choice already, but I just wanted to throw in my experience with Stony from when I attended in 2006. The social atmosphere is quite dull but only on Fridays and Saturdays, because most people live close enough to go home for the weekend and its basically known as a commuter school. Thursday nights get pretty crazy though, but even then, there are enough people that do stay on campus over the weekend to still have a lot of fun.

Also the CS and Biochemistry programs are very good at Stony, and since you are getting a great scholarship, you made a good choice. One problem there is that the school is overcrowded. Back when I was there, very little were tripled, maybe 5% but now its around 75% of freshman I’ve heard. Also when I was there, there were hardly any lines to get food, now you can’t just sneak out of class to grab some food real quick, because the lines are very long sometimes.