<p>Would anybody tell about SUNY Binghampton? Especially if they have business program.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot for the information. What interests me most, is that is a god school academically. About the campus, I have not decided yet. I think those who go to the Engineering College go to the west campus, but I am not sure. Any suggestions?Ate there any campuses that are considered safer than others?</p>
<p>There’s a new one in the Hamptons that I don’t know much about. I’ve been told it’s nice but you’d have to consider how new it is, so it doesn’t have as much to offer. The original campus actually in Stony Brook is safe and bigger I believe.</p>
<p>I’m going to do my adopted state of Pennsylvania because it doesn’t look like anyone’s done a good job on it yet:</p>
<p>Penn: More balanced than other Ivies. Definitely a work-hard, play-hard mentality. The school is part of the city, it is not separated in any way. Some people are very turned off by this; I love it. The average Joe in central PA may not know Penn’s academic quality, but the people that matter do.</p>
<p>Lehigh: Definitely a top school, but NOBODY knows about it. I know a couple people who go there; they don’t hate it, but they don’t rave about it. Seems like a boring school.</p>
<p>Pitt: Another balanced school. Strong academics, good sports program, also in the city. Well-respected in the region and East Coast (I don’t know its reputation elsewhere). Its reputation continues to increase-- admission standards get tougher every year. Seems to attract all different types of students-- jocks, nerds, artsies, frat boys, international, locals, etc.</p>
<p>PennSt: Party school. It’s in the middle of nowhere, so there really isn’t much else to do. Decent academics. Pretty homogeneous student body in all respects.</p>
<p>Swarthmore/Haverford: Hard to tell the two apart. Both top LACs, mostly priviledged kids from Philly suburbs and other upscale areas. Strong academics. Basically unknown by average person outside of East Coast.</p>
<p>Temple: Another large city school. Definitely a step or two down from the other schools I have mentioned, but offers a decent education. Not in a great part of the city, which definitely turns off a lot of prospective students. It seems that Temple is rarely a person’s first choice, a lot of people get stuck going there. </p>
<p>… Those are the major schools that I could think of off the top of my head. Like my home state of Massachusettes, PA has a ton of schools of all types.</p>
<p>do you know anything about indiana university of penn?</p>
<p>IUP has a decent reputation locally. It’s a bit of a party school and the town is pretty boring, but it’s one of the better public schools in PA.</p>
<p>I collected a lot of information about universities in Indiana and it seems that IU is among the very good colleges along with Purdue Lafayette and Purdue Bloomington in Sciences.And you can tranfer if you want to one of the above colleges much easier because it will be an intercampus tranfer.Penn has got a good reputation but the campus iis condidered as one of the most dangeroue campuses.I hope this can help you.</p>
<p>great post@@</p>
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<p>Not exactly too well written there, Mr. JimmyC…</p>
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<p>So basically, you know nothing about the schools in PA?</p>
<p>SUNY Schools:</p>
<p>SUNY Binghamton (ie not BinghamPton) - Fairly well known university. Considered the best of the SUNY’s and is also considered a public Ivy. I do believe they have a business program but I don’t know much about it. It’s kind of in the middle of nowhere… 4 hours to NYC.</p>
<p>SUNY Stony Brook - Excellent research university. Ranks amongst highest in sciences internationally. Located on Long Island and though it’s a 50 percent commuter campus, its still only an hour and a half away from the city. (~ 60 miles). A very ethnically diverse campus. Definitely underrated! </p>
<p>SUNY Buffalo - Good university, not quite as good as the two aforementioned. </p>
<p>SUNY Albany - Located in the capital “city,” I’ve heard its a big party school. Good programs in pharmaceutics apparently. </p>
<p>SUNY Geneseo - Great school, not as well known as it should be. However its a small college and I’ve heard many say its almost has a High School- like atmosphere. It’s also in the middle of nowhere, very rural. Especially Good if you want to go into education. </p>
<p>SUNY New Paltz - Small liberal arts college relatively close to NYC. Beautiful campus from what I’ve heard, but I’ve also heard it is somewhat of a “hippie” school… it really brings out the liberal in liberal arts so to speak. </p>
<p>SUNY Purchase- Good for performing arts (acting, music, etc), otherwise I dont’ know much about it.</p>
<p>SUNY Potsdam - All I know is it has a seperate school for music which is somewhat well known throughout the state (esp. if you want to become a music teacher). </p>
<p>SUNY Fredonia - Again I’ve heard wonderful things about their music program apart from that I don’t know much. </p>
<p>and then of course there are teh CUNY Schools in NYC. They’re mostly colleges that are mainly focused on the liberal arts:
Hunter College
Queens college
Brooklyn College
Leighman College
etc. </p>
<p>Private schools in NY:
Columbia
Cornell
NYU
Vasser
Syracuse
Rochester
Ithaca
St. Joesph
Fordham</p>
<p>Florida: The ones I know of.</p>
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<li><p>UF: Best Public in the state by far. gettting in there is a true accomplishment and seen with much respect as admissions there is crazy. Located in Gainesville which is regarded by most as hickvillebut other than that, great campus and school spirit attracting the best students in the state. </p></li>
<li><p>FSU: Pretty good school. well regarded in the state. You get the college town feel without the hick atmosphere at Gainesville. big stereotype on being a UF reject school which is in part true (admissions here though getting tougher is still way lower than UF) but at the same time you see many cases of UF losing students to FSU. </p></li>
<li><p>UMiami: Private, Expensive, preppy school in Coral Gables (in the Miami Metro area). Very tough to get into and equally as prestigious as UF (though at a much greater cost). most students are from Out Of state as most Floridians who get into Miami choose UF due to its lower public school tuition. </p></li>
<li><p>USF: Large state school in Tampa. Mostly commuter though becoming more and more residential. great in medecine and top rated football (recently).</p></li>
<li><p>UCF: Increasingly popular choice because of its location in Orlando. About the same rep as USF though more of a partier atmosphere. while USF is strong in the natural sciences and medecine, UCF leans more towards business. </p></li>
<li><p>FAU: located in Ritzy Boca Raton. not really known too well outside of South Florida (where it does have a good reputation). </p></li>
<li><p>FIU: Big time commuter school in the outskirts of Miami. most students are from Miami Dade and Broward Counties. Not very well regarded outside of Miami. </p></li>
<li><p>UTampa: Rich kid party school in Downtown Tampa. </p></li>
<li><p>Rollins:located in Orlando. about the same reputation as Tampa however less of a party school image and more academic.</p></li>
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<p>UMiami gives very good merit aid though to defray the costs. Its not too hard to get a quarter or even half tuition.</p>
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<p>Yeah…no…</p>
<p>TU owls why dont u enlighten yourself a little bit and read through this thread to get an idea about how FLoridians percieve Florida schools rather than posting how ppl up in the Philly see it:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-life/173042-schools-florida.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-life/173042-schools-florida.html</a></p>
<p>If thats not enough, why dont u look at some of the stats:
UM is now just as selective as UF statistically speaking:
UM: 38% acc rate
UF: 42% acc rate
SAT are about the same just as GPA is.</p>
<p>US News national rankings are almost identical as well.</p>
<p>Harvard (eh)
MIT (geniuses)</p>
<p>The rest of the world…</p>
<p>Yeah TUOwls, I’m not really sure where you’re getting your information from…</p>
<p>It took me 18 pages to find a Delaware post. K9Leader did a good job, but I thought I’d provide a student’s POV. DE only has three public schools–the flagship, a poorly-regarded downstate alternative, and a community college. I don’t know much about the privates, although I will add at least one more name–Goldey-Beacom College.</p>
<p>University of Delaware: Technically known as the U of D, not to be confused with the University of Denver, but everyone around here calls it UD. Newark is within 30 minutes of all of New Castle County, so it’s really close to home for most people. Like many, I find it way too close. A medium sized public with its own private endowment, ranked 2nd tier and moderately selective, I believe. The Commitment to Delawareans guarantees admission and full need for in-staters if you meet certain criteria, and merit aid is plentiful. Despite this, the school is only 30% IS and 70% OOS (mostly from Mid-Atlantic/Tri-State area)–take from that what you will.</p>
<p>Delaware State University: DSU is located in Dover, the state capital in the middle of endless farmland. I’ve only visited once for a special event–the campus is nothing special, mostly brick buildings with little green space–and I don’t know much about it, except that in the North, everyone I know would rather attend the community college (with possibility of transferring) than DSU.</p>
<p>Delaware Technical & Community College (Deltech): Your friendly and stereotypical CC. Not much else to say, really. Some high school students take classes here over the summer, but generally not for HS credit (at least, my school doesn’t accept it).</p>
<p>MA has literally like, 500 colleges, many of them catering to the more…obscure disciplines (ie the New England Tractor Trailer Training School) but here are the ones I’m familiar/vaguely familiar with:</p>
<p>Harvard - obvi. The Holy Grail of higher education, etc. etc.
MIT - college with an ugly campus. School full of geniuses though. Skewed m/f ratio (one of my friends goes there and when she came to visit my neighbor was like, “huh, I thought MIT was an all-boys’ school.”) Great parties (supposedly).
BC - college in the middle of the 'burbs. Homogenous (ie rich, white) student population. Huge on sports. Decent academics…I guess?
BU - very, very large university. Horrid campus. Lots of rich kids. Has incredible resources, but not many people seem to take advantage of those.
UMass-Amherst: “mediocre” public university, even though I know tons of smart kids who go there. Formerly known as “Zoo-Mass” but the party image’s been toned down of late. Interestingly enough, almost all of said “smart kids” are planning to study health/medicine, and their pre-med/health programs are pretty respected
Northeastern: famous for their co-op. used to be seen as a lesser, more expensive UMass, but I hear their rnkings and respectability has risen remarkably of late.
Tufts: Tufts probably suffers more than any other school in that it’s seen as the place for ivy rejects. great for IR, great school overall. Too bad 'bout it’s reputation.</p>
<p>Others I’m too lazy to talk about: Amherst, Williams, all 26 other UMass’s, all 400-ish other communiy colleges, etc. etc. etc.</p>
<p>University of Maryland, College Park - State flagship. Great education and honors college, good journalism grad school, lots of school spirit. Back in my day, it was considered “13th grade.” Now it’s getting a better rep. Surrounding area is iffy.</p>
<p>St. Mary’s College of Maryland - Most selective and most expensive public school in the state. Small LAC. Boondocks. All honors. You either love it or hate it, due to remoteness. </p>
<p>Hopkins - Not much to say that CC’s don’t already know. Lax team has a fanatical following. </p>
<p>Loyola of Maryland - Nice, mid-sized. “Polite” reputation. Jesuit. Only about 2 miles from JHU and 5 miles from Towson/Goucher.</p>
<p>Towson - Slightly easier than UMCP to get into but also good. Good Mass Comm program, Nursing, and Education majors.</p>
<p>University of Maryland, Baltimore County - Techy and nerdy rep. Commuters. Suitcase school. Good grad programs.</p>
<p>UM, Eastern Shore - a historically black university that is very easy to get into and close to the beach.</p>
<p>Salisbury - SAT optional. Good general school, kinda vanilla, nothing abut it stands out. Close to the beach. Party school.</p>
<p>Coppin State - also historically black, in Baltimore, sketchy academics.</p>
<p>Frostburg - way out in the mountains. party school. even people in md doubt its academics, but i think they have a good forest/environmental studies program. Shrinking enrollment, mainly due to location, they say. About launch an image campaign. Maybe even name change (I’m rooting for it to become Maryland State.)</p>
<p>McDaniel - Private. Nice liberal arts. Party rep.</p>
<p>Bowie State - Slightly more than a community college. If it’s not hbcu.</p>
<p>Goucher - I’m always surprised this school gets mentioned so much on CC. To the locals it’s not even a blip on radar. Most of us still consider it an all-girls school. It’s only about 2 miles down the road from Towson U.</p>
<p>Washington College - Private. Rural, on the Chesapeake. LAC. Moderately selective. It’s the socially-acceptable safety for kids who set top LACs as their reaches. Good merit aid. </p>
<p>Stevenson U - (formerly Villa Julie) Tiny. Formerly all-girl. They advertise like mad around here. Ho hum rep.</p>