@atsishah
Current student at Baruch and I’m transferring out after this semester. I wrote up a thread discussing some of my frustrations. A lot of it pertains to my disappointments with the Macaulay program, but it gives a general sense of why I felt that even a free honors program didn’t make Baruch worth it for me: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/18142682#Comment_18142682
One thing I didn’t touch on in the thread that I can answer you about is housing: Baruch rents out a small number of dorms in a privately run dorm building shared by a bunch of other colleges way up on 96th street (Do not underestimate how far away this is. I wake up 2 and a half hours before my 1st class just to make sure I get to class on time. The 4/5/6 trains are broken at best and hell on earth during rush hour.). All rooms are 2-3 to a room and cramped. Beds felt hard when I tried them on the tour and a friend who lived there said he moved out because it was too loud and he couldn’t study. There are other non-Baruch options, but they will obviously be either more expensive or even further from the school. I live at the 92Y and my friend who moved from the Baruch dorm lives an hour and a half away from the school in Brooklyn.