Should I transfer to a CUNY? Need more opinions

sprinkles12
Mon, 04 Apr 2016 18:38:08 +0000

It depends. The CUNY schools in general are commuter schools. Most of the students come from the 5 boroughs, many are non-traditional, first generations immigrants. It might be harder to make friends and you won’t get the “college experience”. This is a great environment if you are from nyc already but the issue is that they don’t really have dorms and housing is super expensive in most parts of the city so you would have to live with family. Another thing is that the cuny bureaucracy is really bad. I have heard so many horror stories of people being dropped from their classes in the middle of the semester, not being able to register, long lines. But the classes tend to be surprisingly good and the professors are knowledgeable. And it’s cheap so you can’t complain about that. If you do decide to look at cunys you should look at hunter college(liberal arts) or baruch (solid business program).

If you were to go out and get an apartment or room in new york all the money you save on tuition would just be eaten up by money you spend on housing and transportation. So if you like your school right now it really wouldn’t be worth it.