All SUNYS (2023-2024)

[unreal oyster]

Yeah Feb 1

[spice ice]

Sick I can just copy paste some essays from RD

ez pz

Uh oh dont tell me there's like a "why honors program" essay

because I want money, that's why

[unreal oyster]

Nah

[next lodge]

i submitted first week of october

and still got deferred

where can i apply

[spice ice]

stats?

and instate or oos

[next lodge]

1410 sat and 94 gpa weighted instate

[spice ice]

major?

if it's CS that may make sense

[next lodge]

cs

which is why

[heady pewter]

its cause the major cs is fucked

i genuinely think they forgot about ea cs

[spice ice]

People from my school got in CS

who applied earlier

• merit

[heady pewter]

da fuck

[spice ice]

with comparable stats to mine

[unreal oyster]

https://www.buffalo.edu/honors/funding-aid/prospective-students.html

[spice ice]

so idk wtf happened

[heady pewter]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

guess we waiting

[next lodge]

i swear to god this shit is a coinflip ik people who got rejected from stony but got into t20s

[spice ice]

This better be me

[heady pewter]

well i fs aint getting into a t20 so

[spice ice]

fuck stonybrook

[void nymph]

how tf did i get in then lmao

[heady pewter]

guess its over

[spice ice]

I don't do these fucking games man

it's meant to be a safety

[next lodge]

no literally

i got deferred from bing too

and thats considered a "saftey" for me

[heady pewter]

oh i got into bing

[spice ice]

Buffalo gave me top scholarship that doesn't need an application

bing let me in too (no merit yet tho)

[heady pewter]

i didnt get scholarships tho

da fuck is ths

[next lodge]

ub gave me a scholarship

[unreal oyster]

what is the max scholarship if you dont mind sharing

[spice ice]

well the money amount varies but it's called like

pride of NY or some shit

[mortal moth]

I feel like they ran out of time reading apps

[spice ice]

it's the best generic scholarship u can get as far as i can tell

[spice ice]

This may be true

the email says they "have completed an initial review of your application and supporting material"

I call bullshit

they didnt read shit

[heady pewter]

wouldnt be surprised by that tbh

i subimtted late as hell

[spice ice]

same

i submitted literally last hour of EA deadline

[next lodge]

thats what happened to bing

they had a record number of ea apps

[bold urchin]

i did that and got a decision on dec 14

but it wasnt cs

[spice ice]

CS is so fucked this yr

my GT defer is a miracle

idec if i get in, im proud of that shit

[heady pewter]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[mortal moth]

One of my friends who applied RD got the email as well

so they're not exactly on their A game rn

[spice ice]

LOL

they havent even updated my app to RD

my portal still says EA on it

[mortal moth]

Not such a huge problem for me tbh

prob just record number of apps

or something like that

[spice ice]

i mean probably same

gonna bag a t20 in rd for sure

[mortal moth]

Slightly cheesed that spending money and applying EA gets you deffered

[spice ice]

considering i applied to 17/20 of them

[mortal moth]

Like I know RD ppl who've gotten in already

ye shotgun t20

trust

[spice ice]

they didnt even call it a defer either

[mortal moth]

yhea

[spice ice]

"I write to notify you that your application has been updated for regular decision."

[next lodge]

no like the fuck

i thought ea was supposed to help but ig not

[spice ice]

That's professional speak for "we are slow as shit and cant read all your apps, please give us time"

Actually wait

"We have completed an initial review"

[mortal moth]

I smell bs

[spice ice]

This is completely arbitrary

[mortal moth]

Doubt they've done an intial review

[spice ice]

it could mean they got their slaves to do first read

[mortal moth]

maybe a sat/gpa filter at most

[spice ice]

since that takes like 5 minutes

[mortal moth]

but yhea prob record apps

[spice ice]

maybe they just didnt get to committee with them all yet

[next lodge]

i mean this is the first time in a while stony has ea again

[spice ice]

Actually ur right

If I had waited til free app week I would've gotten my decision no later

But of course we're not gonna get our money back

[wraith wave]

when did they announce scholarships?

[spice ice]

You'll have gotten an email if you got one, not sure if it was all in one wave

[wraith wave]

oop ig

the only email regarding scholarships for UB i got was a reminder to apply for the presidential one

[spice ice]

Not impossible that you get one in the future

[tribal gazelle]

Holy shit today was a bloodbath

[spice ice]

Stony Brook, I assume?

[tribal gazelle]

Yea

[next lodge]

yep

[spice ice]

U talking about denials or just "updates to RD"

Pretty sure they just ran out of time

[tribal gazelle]

Updates to rd

[spice ice]

I'm gonna call the admissions office tomorrow

[tribal gazelle]

Might be a combo of inning out of time and not enough space in the cs dept

[spice ice]

Not enough space my ass
It's not my fault if they admitted too many people early into their EA app reading

This is why any school that's even mildly competitive should not have rolling admission

[wraith wave]

stony should honestly invest in expanding their stem depts a lot more cuz nobody even bothers to go to stony for anything other than stem

[tribal gazelle]

They did for cs no?

[spice ice]

Exactly
The location is great for it too

[wraith wave]

the town alr hates the school anyway 😭

[tribal gazelle]

I wonder what theyre spending their 500M donation on

[spice ice]

I would say sports but idek if they do sports seriously

[tribal gazelle]

They might be spending it on their governor island climate center thingy

[spice ice]

Huh

[tribal gazelle]

https://news.stonybrook.edu/university/sbu-ny-climate-exchange/

Some ppl on the internet see it as useless

Or well unnesscary

[hollow geyser]

fr like maybe more into their business department

this way ppl in the city would choose stony brook over baruch

a strong business department would end all the bs debate that binghamton is better

[tribal gazelle]

Do ppl in Stony typically go to rentech

[hollow geyser]

Renaissance Technologies???

[tribal gazelle]

Yeah

[hollow geyser]

alright but to answer ur question, i doubt it

[tribal gazelle]

Rip

[spice ice]

Basically nobody goes to rentech

[hollow geyser]

that's not to say ppl in stony can't get in tho

yea what tix said

[spice ice]

Get a finance/math professorship at a t5 school and hope you get poached

That's pretty much how you do it

Or get a job at diff quant and have the same thing happen

[hollow geyser]

citadel better

[tribal gazelle]

Prolly gonna be pretty hard to get into an hft if ur from Stony bc I think they like to hire from the very pristegious schools

I'm probably gonna go to tech instead of cs+finance tho

[spice ice]

True if u rly want it get a masters

But also don't do quant if you would like to preserve your soul

Personally I would like to at least have the illusion that I'm contributing to humanity

And hedge fund is the opposite of that

[tribal gazelle]

There's the software side of it tho too, not just the pure math and finance

[tribal gazelle]

SAME

But dat sweet salary

In this economy

[spice ice]

I would say take it for a few yrs and dip

But the salary is addictive

[tribal gazelle]

If I were to dip and want to go to a pure tech place, I'm not sure if the experience will match up tho and I'd be at a disadvantage

[hollow geyser]

swe at a hedge fund would be nice!

still have to be crazy cracked tho

[tribal gazelle]

Yeah... I'd prolly have a better chance at getting a position in faang lol

[spice ice]

there are generally 4 types of quant jobs

with varying degrees of swe

[hollow geyser]

there's many ppl at faang that come from stony brook

[tribal gazelle]

Yeah I've heard online about how many ppl go to faang

At the end we are gonna be corporate lapdogs

Cyberpunk moment

[hollow geyser]

i just wanna be a swe for a company that gives u out/have free food

i'm such a foodie

[tribal gazelle]

That's a good dream

[spice ice]

I mean

that's generally a thing that means the company is tryna get u to stay longer

like google offers free dinner so that u slave for them more

[hollow geyser]

eh hours mean nothing to me

[spice ice]

what

[wraith wave]

did you see the google housing units so you can live at your job 💀

[hollow geyser]

i work 60+ hours during the summer every summer of high school

[spice ice]

yes 😭

[spice ice]

you want to do that forever?

[tribal gazelle]

what

[spice ice]

i want as few working hours as possible

[hollow geyser]

no

[wraith wave]

yeah they implemented it in their bay area office

[hollow geyser]

i'm only gonna be a swe for like 10-12 years

[spice ice]

my productivity at one task drops off before the end of a day on 40 hr weeks alone

[hollow geyser]

then i'm opening up my own bakery

[tribal gazelle]

No fucking way

[delicate hamlet]

is stony brook a good environment

[spice ice]

yh

it's real

[tribal gazelle]

God ain't saving us

[wraith wave]

they pay you to live there but then they basically control every aspect of your life

[spice ice]

If you work at google u have a chance that u'll be working on the ad recommendation algorithms

[hollow geyser]

housing units is a bit much lmao

[spice ice]

I'd like to say i'd deny a position like that but i probably wouldn't

it's like the most overtly evil thing google does

but 🤑

[tribal gazelle]

can we even escape doing smth in our jobs that is overtly evil in cs

[hollow geyser]

def not, i would at least work at google for 1 year. just to see what it's like to work at a company so many ppl want

[wraith wave]

they said they did it to encourage people to return to the office from remote work but like living at work sounds worse than just going to an office for a 9-5

[spice ice]

it's difficult but possible

[hollow geyser]

WFH isn't even bad. hybrid format >>>

[spice ice]

like if u work in idk environmental policymaking (not as a lobbyist) then that's probably just pure good

[wraith wave]

thats gonna be me lmao

either that or environmental law

[tribal gazelle]

damn im pretty much gonna end up as an swe helping a company sell user data

[spice ice]

yep

hey at least you won't be in the military11!1!

[tribal gazelle]

true

https://realestate.withgoogle.com/bay-housing/

is it this?

this just sounds like regular housing for anyone

[spice ice]

I don't think that's the one

they have like

on-site housing

it's like sleeping in a broom closet but more luxurious

[tribal gazelle]

the next thing i found was this https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/04/google-offers-on-campus-hotel-special-to-lure-workers-back-in.html

[hollow geyser]

they think they slick

[unreal oyster]

Ready Player One vibes just slightly less dystopic

[tribal gazelle]

world's moving in a great direction

[hollow isle]

@spice ice what major did you apply as?

[tribal gazelle]

are there still ppl that didnt receive a decision from ea yet

[spice ice]

CS

[hollow isle]

Ok in this case deferral is not that surprising

You'll probably still get in though

[spice ice]

really?

i'm pretty surprised

like i try to be humble but it's stonybrook, i'm cracked as shit for this school

it's a safety for a reason

[hollow isle]

well it's cs

But yea I'm also surprised since your stat is probably stronger than mine yet they accepted me in a week with a load of money

I applied for math which is easier

[tribal gazelle]

damn a week is crazy

they probably have seperate admissions offices for each dept

[spice ice]

this is my stats

[delicate hamlet]

ok

[tribal gazelle]

yeah u shouldve gotten in

[jolly herald]

anybody get in or knows when admissions are for stony honors programs and scholars for medicine

[tribal gazelle]

i think honors college is 15th of march

idk for medicine

[jolly herald]

ah ty

[hoary skiff]

after u get into honors theyll interview u for thr scholars for medicine program (so mid march)

[low igloo]

does anyone here go to UB for engineering and would be cool with chatting?

[hoary skiff]

LMFOA

MY STONY SHIRT ARRIVED

[hollow geyser]

oh nah this ain't fair

they gave y'all a way better shirt than the one they agve us last year

[spark oriole]

when did you get in lol

i got accepted last week or so and then ordered my shirt wonder how long itll take

[tribal gazelle]

Y’all ordered a shirt??

[spark oriole]

prolly not going just want my drip

[spark oriole]

when i got admitted i had an option to get a free shirt

some people here didnt have that option after getting accepted though

[tribal gazelle]

Bruh I don’t think I had that

[spark oriole]

idk if its for scholars or smth

honestly idek

but free drip is free drip

its like a little scroll below the admissions site

like a little below where they give an intro to your counselor etc

[tribal gazelle]

On the admissions portal?

[spark oriole]

ye

[tribal gazelle]

I remember checking a few days ago and i didn’t see anything abt a shirt

Oh well

[spark oriole]

its like right under the pay deposit thingy

[tribal gazelle]

Yeah it’s not there

[hoary skiff]

im oos so maybe related to that ?

[hoary skiff]

dec 13, they shipped my acceptance letter on jan 24 it says

[hoary skiff]

🤭🤭🤭

[spark oriole]

yeah me aswell

possibly

i got presidential scholars so if you did too then maybe that might be it asw

[tribal gazelle]

I think I got that as well

It’s a scholarship no?

[spark oriole]

yeah

[tribal gazelle]

Well no free shirt for me

[spark oriole]

damn

maybe it is an oos thing

do you live in ny?

[tribal gazelle]

Yea

[spark oriole]

idk then tbh

[bold urchin]

instate with presidential but no option

so most likely oos thing

[hoary skiff]

also got this scholarship

sending ahirts is expensive and oos pays more i tuition if we attend so its prob an oos initiative

[vestal isle]

Does stony brook do rolling admissions ?

[tribal gazelle]

kinda i think

[spice ice]

Yes

[torpid lance]

got sbu honors college today

[bold urchin]

where did it show?

[torpid lance]

email

[steady crow]

Know if it’s rolling or?

[torpid lance]

no idea

didnt expect to receieve a decision till march

[delicate hamlet]

would you guys say engineering at stony brook is worth it as someone in California

I’m not likely to get into a good UC bc they don’t take my sat, and my other good acceptance rn is upitt

maybe I should just go visit

[spark oriole]

gonna tell you and be honest that moving to long island all the way from ca is not it

nothing interesting except the beaches and honestly, my own family members that live in long island are telling me not to go specifically because its long island

i never lived there but whenever i visited it wasnt anything that made you go wow or something its just boring area

[delicate hamlet]

that’s fair but I’m considering mainly school wise

my UC chances are abysmal

[spark oriole]

school wise is great, but the area isnt, and the social scene is almost zero

[delicate hamlet]

my gpa sucks and my sat is good but guess who’s state schools are test blind

good to know

between this and upitt u would recommend upitt then?

[spark oriole]

you'll get a good education but my cousin says that if i went i'd probably want to end it

id suggest upitt

i also got into pitt but im considering between vtech or penn state rn

[delicate hamlet]

ooh nice

[spark oriole]

but if i had to choose stony brook or pitt i'd 100% choose pitt

[delicate hamlet]

yeah I won’t get a lot of decisions till March and I still have my neu ed2

okay thanks

[torpid lance]

would also prob put pitt over stony if price is the same

[delicate hamlet]

I got 5k a year for stony but that’s it

[spark oriole]

i got an equal amt from stony and pitt

you get anything from pitt?

[delicate hamlet]

idts

[spark oriole]

im pretty sure the pricing is similar for both

[delicate hamlet]

but if the other option is offing myself

[torpid lance]

i think stony oos is around 55k/yr?

[spark oriole]

but like you'd have a much better time at pitt

[torpid lance]

could be worse

[spark oriole]

thats my cousins words not mine but it really made me reconsider going 😭

[delicate hamlet]

yeah

[spark oriole]

like if you're coming all the way from cali go to a good school with a good social life that'll also have good experiences with it lol

[torpid lance]

stony brook from california is hard to justify

[spark oriole]

very

i would never tell someone to go to long island if they're from that far

would rather go ucr or to a csu at that point

isnt ucr getting better actually?

dk if i can shit on that school

[delicate hamlet]

yeah

[torpid lance]

if ur instate csu prob > sbu

[delicate hamlet]

I can get into riverside and Santa Cruz probably

[spark oriole]

financially would be better to go to that

[delicate hamlet]

i did ed2 to northeastern oops

I am so not getting aid

[spark oriole]

if you want to go out of state then id say pitt > sbu

[torpid lance]

well gl with that

[spark oriole]

gl

[delicate hamlet]

thank you

[torpid lance]

would agree

[delicate hamlet]

yeah my dad agrees

[torpid lance]

watcha studying

[delicate hamlet]

I’d have to transfer majors once I’m there

I applied comp bio but i wanna do engineering

[spark oriole]

yeah stonys good for engineering but like pitt isnt too far off either

[torpid lance]

i think stony is a little strict on switching majors

[delicate hamlet]

yeah

No i got engineering for stony

For Pitt i did comp bio

[torpid lance]

the scholarship i got from stony only applies if i dont switch majors

[spark oriole]

also pitt and sbu are both respected in the east coast so if this is where you want to live after college i'd recommend either

if you're going back to cali/states near it after atp just go to a UC

[torpid lance]

socially pitt will prob be better too

[delicate hamlet]

yeah ur right

Boston is good for bme though maybe I’ll transfer to a Boston school

[spark oriole]

yeah i love the boston area

i regret eding to jhu and not BU

wouldve def clutched up

i might try to transfer after two years or so to somewhere in boston

[torpid lance]

did rd to BU but i wouldnt go over my current options

[spark oriole]

boston/miami area florida (not miami) are my favorite places as of rn

[spark oriole]

yeah rn my top choices are Vtech and Penn State honors but im praying for my JHU deferral to clutch up

[delicate hamlet]

I ed to tufts originally but got rejected so now northeastern after being deferred

[spark oriole]

its just that if i ed'd to BU instead of getting deferred from jhu i would've probably gotten in

[delicate hamlet]

I’m hoping that since i got deferred ea and not rejected i have a chance

[spark oriole]

yeah me too but after purdue i lost hope in t20s

[torpid lance]

i think with how things are going im probably going to michigan or virginia

[spark oriole]

uva/umich or msu/vsu?

[torpid lance]

former

[delicate hamlet]

above 75th for sat below 25th for gpa gang

[spark oriole]

you got into both?

congrats

[torpid lance]

yep

vv happy

[spark oriole]

thats good shit

[delicate hamlet]

3.4 1560

[torpid lance]

sat twins

[spark oriole]

3.8 1500

[delicate hamlet]

i have upward trend and good grades in stem at least plus explanation for freshman year

[torpid lance]

sounds like u have a decent shot for northeastern imo

[spark oriole]

ngl you might clutch up on northeastern i feel like its just that gpa holding you back

yep

last year this girl in my enviro class got into northeastern with a 86 gpa and a high 14 something SAT

you probably got it

[delicate hamlet]

I mean yeah i was deferred instead of rejected already in ea so

hopefully

[next lodge]

should i submit a loci for stony or nah

cause i was deferred a week ago

[hollow geyser]

if u want the stony acceptance bad, then i would

[next lodge]

its one of my top choices

idk where to send it though

[hoary skiff]

prob the admissions officr

[abstract cedar]

Guys, i got dean scholarship from bing ✨🎉

[wraith wave]

they released scholarships?

[abstract cedar]

Ye i got a email

[wraith wave]

damn i didnt get anything yet

but congrats

[gilded fable]

How much is that

[abstract cedar]

Is like 28k for four years so 7k/year

[gilded fable]

😳🔥

[abstract cedar]

And im out of state, so def a plus 👍

[gilded fable]

Oh nice are you gonna commit

[abstract cedar]

Im still waiting for all my colleges to get back to decide, but bing def a tops for me

[gilded fable]

What’s your major?

[abstract cedar]

CS

[gilded fable]

oh ok

[spark oriole]

my friend got penn state 2+2 for engineering but also got into binghamton for engineering and wants to know which school he should pick in the end

also lives in jersey with me but hes north jersey so id say closer to binghamton area but would still have to dorm

he got like 15k per year at bing and only 5k per year at penn state

everyone else telling him penn state for jobs but binghamton cant be that bad compared to penn state engineering right?

[torpid lance]

ive heard decent things abt bing engineering

+unlike penn state he wouldnt have to go to a satellite campus for 2 yrs

but for engineering generally ive heard go for the cheapest option

[spark oriole]

👍

[wraith wave]

15k vs 5k is a lot id pick penn state tbh

[spark oriole]

i meant scholarshipa not total cost mb

he doesnt know what his full year cost is going to be in the end

[wraith wave]

oh then in that case id say to wait till you get your financial aid letters

[wraith wave]

also did he not get rutgers engineering??

[torpid lance]

njit would also be a good option prob

[spark oriole]

i think he got newark and was a victim of the mass instate waitlist

for new brunswick

[rapid stirrup]

Ok, Just got accepted in Stony Brook CS program for fall 2024 and got a global excellence scholarship of $6000/year, So just wanted to ask as an international is Stony brook social life bad?

And I forgot to add honors College in my SBU application 😅 is there any way to submit it now?

[unreal oyster]

I cant speak to social life but it's definitely too late to apply for honors since the priority deadline was Oct 15

[steady crow]

Do you know when honors decision drops or rolling

[unreal oyster]

Idk, sorry

[spark oriole]

yall think my offers getting rescinded from stony brook bc of peak senioritis beating my gpa up

[next lodge]

are you failing anything

[spark oriole]

nope but im on edge with physics rn

its like a 72

failing in my school is below 60

but like in my old school below a 70 was failure so i keep overthinking

every other class i have like an 80+

[next lodge]

ok then youre fine

[spark oriole]

when should my spidey senses tingle

that sounded weird asf

what range

[next lodge]

just dont fail and ur good

[spark oriole]

should i freak out

alr

yeah i can maintaing a 70 something in physics

only class i feel fine doing mid in because all the other seniors doing bad if not worse 😭

[next lodge]

i got deferred from stony so ill find out next month i think

[spark oriole]

gl

not 100% sure on stony but im probably not getting much fafsa

and without fafsa they gave me most scholarships compared to other schools

[next lodge]

if i dont get in ill prob go to ubuff or bing

i got into ubuff on a scholarship but deferred from bing too

[spark oriole]

with rutgers i wouldve gone only if i got honors but without honors and fafsa rutgers is expensive as fuck

even if in state

[next lodge]

how much is it

[spark oriole]

they claim 16k, but in my general area most kids are upper middle class so the seniors last year had to pay an average of like 30kish

i also talked about it with my stat teacher and he agreed that rutgers in state tuition has gotten ridiculous

counselor told me that if i get no fafsa id have a better experience going somewhere that gives me aid to the point price is similar for a new experience

[tepid iris]

me too bro. I wanna know how bad a drop can get someone rescinded 😭

[brisk venture]

I got into SUNY Purchase!

[tribal gazelle]

When will we see our cost of attendance for stony

[delicate hamlet]

got my tshirt

[hoary skiff]

woooo

[outer shard]

I GOT IN TO STONY??? AND AN 11K A YEAR SCHOLLY?????

[next lodge]

congrats

what major

[spark oriole]

whend you order it lol

still waiting

been like a month

need that sbu drip

[delicate hamlet]

like a few weeks ago

[next lodge]

waiting for stony is killing me 🫠

[spark oriole]

probably committing there after fafsa

didnt get into my state schools honors college and tuitions probably going to be the same if not more then stony brook

[hoary skiff]

congrats !!!

[lethal jolt]

how much is stony w out any aid..? when i look it up i get two seperate answers

[hoary skiff]

in state or oos ?

[lethal jolt]

oos

[hoary skiff]

HOLD UP

i did a whole prokect on this

🤭

[lethal jolt]

HUH

[hoary skiff]

cost of college silly project for my econ class

i had gotten into stony n u of oregon at the time n wanted to compare them so

WHOOPS

had my city in it one sec

[lethal jolt]

ITS 49k?????

[next lodge]

yikes

with fafsa?

[lethal jolt]

well idk i'm just looking at sticker prices rn because fafsa hasn't processed yet

[hoary skiff]

for oos

[lethal jolt]

i got a 5k per year scholarship but i still think im not gonna go

even though i love sbu <//3

[next lodge]

if i get in im 100% committing

[hoary skiff]

righttt

[lethal jolt]

are you instate?

[next lodge]

yeah i live in nyc

[hoary skiff]

i got half tuition for oos so its ab 35k/yr for me

not gonna get any fed aid so its not bad for me

[next lodge]

but i applied for cs and you know how cs is there

[lethal jolt]

stony brook cs is cracked

[hoary skiff]

yea,,,, gl 🫡

[next lodge]

i got deferred so i have to wait another couple of weeks

[lethal jolt]

goodluck!!! ur gonna be in my prayers

[next lodge]

im hoping so

ty

i also got into ubuff which im happy about but its so far

[hoary skiff]

awh good luck !!!!

[outer shard]

biochem

[spark oriole]

i did their financial aid calculator estimate thing and with my 16k scholarship total was at 38kish

so probably 50kish range

[outer shard]

anyone know if/when honors college is coming out for stony brook?

[spark oriole]

oos btw

with dorms

[lethal jolt]

my financial aid thing said 41k but i’m not sure if that included my scholarship or not

[spark oriole]

they auto added my scholarship without me ticking it on

but i alr know i got it so thatd be my rangw

[lethal jolt]

mannn

congrats on the scholarship btw!

[spark oriole]

rutgers would cost me 30-40kish in state and i didnt get honors so like honestly might take stony

[spark oriole]

ty

[lethal jolt]

what major?

[next lodge]

march

[spark oriole]

mechanical engineering

[gilded fable]

U made this?

[hoary skiff]

yup

[next lodge]

apparently a lot of stony decisions got released today

some of my friends just got accepted

[lethal jolt]

yeah i'm not sure why

[next lodge]

ig they’re releasing them in waves

some schools do that

[outer shard]

ok thank you

[naive thistle]

bruh I cant wait no longer

[spark oriole]

how i feel with the fafsa

mfs updated it to make it simpler and just made shit harder

[naive thistle]

bro I forgot to sign mine

LMAO

[spark oriole]

im very stuck on wether i should commit to stony or binghamton

visited binghamton campus and loved it

and the vibe

havent visited stony yet but ive been told wayy too much that the social scene is depressing etc

got comparable aid from both which makes the decision even harder

im majoring in engineering but i still want a social life, so like im very jumpy on either bing or sbu

[hollow geyser]

if u want social life as in nightlife, then prob bing

social life at sbu for the most part if ur not involved in the clubs is just going to nyc

i do warn u, it's kinda in the middle of nowhere. yea visit might seem nice but this can be con if u can't get comfortable once u live here longer.

[spark oriole]

yeah

ngl idk my fafsa yet but based on the calculators suny provides bing with be like 35-40k range and stony would be 40-45k range

and bing gave me 6000 per year vs stony giving me 16000 per year which kinda suprised me

[hollow geyser]

are u in state?

[spark oriole]

didnt know sbu was that much more expensive

out of state

new jersey

bing is 2 and a half hour drivish and sbu is an hour and a half

but i have family in long island and whenever i visit the traffic makes it 2-3 hours

so distance from home not too crazy

[hollow geyser]

there's no way bing is cheaper is stony is giving u 16k per year

coa for both school is about the same

[spark oriole]

13k mb

but yeah based on sbus calc

[tribal gazelle]

these reddit comments abt sbu are scaring me

[spark oriole]

dude same

but then its people on reddit

[hollow geyser]

me personally if i never got into any of the good oos cs schools, i would of chosen stony brook over bing

[spark oriole]

but then when i went to bing it honestly reminded me a lot like vtech/purdue atmosphere

[tribal gazelle]

its also the only suny i applied to cuz i didnt do my research well lol

i just saw stony being the best cs school

and i was like

[spark oriole]

ive seen a lot of complaints about stony professors being dickheads at times too

[tribal gazelle]

eh i just ap0ply onlly tp there

yeah ive heard the professors arent that good

[torpid lance]

i doubt this is different at a lot of research unis

[tribal gazelle]

mostly just mid

[spark oriole]

yeah

[hollow geyser]

this u get anywhere

[tribal gazelle]

few good, some ass

[spark oriole]

ill do the stony tour and see how that goes

[torpid lance]

im instate but i never visited

[tribal gazelle]

same

[spark oriole]

thing is it opens up some options for where we could move to because my dad works 45 minutes away from bing but has to commute an hour and a half to work

[hollow geyser]

well u mean social life, u meant nightlife and drinkingh right?

[spark oriole]

yes in all honesty lol

[tribal gazelle]

ive heard class sizes are big as well, so time to learn classes one semester ahead lmao

[spark oriole]

i am very much a party goer while also focusing on school so i would be able to balance

[torpid lance]

prob also same at larger state schools LOL

[spark oriole]

but im not joining a frat and it seems thats the only way to do stuff in stony

also i heard the frat life was sketchy asf in stony 😭

[tribal gazelle]

im NOT a partygoer so the kinda ass social life from stony isnt actually that much of a problem

i just want good freinds lol

[spark oriole]

yeah that too

i feel like i could easily make friends at both schools

[hollow geyser]

i think u can very well find good friends there

[tribal gazelle]

also why is computational bio under ams??

[torpid lance]

stony gave me 12k but it only applies if i dont switch major

[tribal gazelle]

stony also gave me 12k in total

i think they give more to oos right?

[torpid lance]

maybe

[spark oriole]

yeah they gave me 13k, bing gave me 6k but my dad said if price was that far apart and of COA was similar then i could just choose the school i liked the most

he wants me to wait to commit after ivy day but in all honesty after my nyu/purude disaster im not confident

that jhu deferral was a good chance at nyu but guess not lol

[torpid lance]

if i had to choose i wouldve picked bing over stony

[spark oriole]

im very lenient towards bing rn

[torpid lance]

i applied engineering to both but i dont wanna do that anymore

[hollow geyser]

social life as well?

[spark oriole]

im doing engineering and plan to stick to that tbh

[hollow geyser]

bc stony brook has the edge in program

[torpid lance]

yeah thats prob part of it

[spark oriole]

very much part of it for me

[torpid lance]

my sister also recced bing over stony

she didnt even apply to stony for her year

[tribal gazelle]

damn maybe i also shouldve applied to bing

[spark oriole]

when covid hit and i wasnt talking to people irl and being very social my mental health went on the severe decline and then same thing again when i moved schools away from my friend group 😭

[tribal gazelle]

i didn’t apply cuz they werent flagship and i heard cs at stony is best in suny

[spark oriole]

i know for a fact if i want to succeed in college i need my mental health to be up

[spark oriole]

and my mental health dips whenever theres a big move/no social life period

[hollow geyser]

no worries, u will make friends easily. just be active the first month of college

[spark oriole]

yeah

[tribal gazelle]

did u go to stony and umich?

[hollow geyser]

only umich

[tribal gazelle]

then why are u repping for stony lol

[hollow geyser]

that's just a general tip

[spark oriole]

probably planned to go there before getting into umich

[torpid lance]

r ya lsa or engineering btw

[hollow geyser]

i just think sbu's better but yea i do ahve knowledge on both school. also ahve a lot of friends at both

[tribal gazelle]

ah i see

[hollow geyser]

cs is cs, let's put it that way lol

[torpid lance]

mmm ok

just considering if i should apply to lsa honors or not

prob not gonna

[spark oriole]

is bings engineering that behind compared to sbu though?

ik sbu beats it by a long mile

but like

would it be negative in the long run or is it just state school vs state school

i plan to work in northeast/tri state area after regardless

and ik both are respected outside of the ivys

[hollow geyser]

yes for sure but it's not that big of a gap

watson's great

[spark oriole]

yeah thats kind of why im leaning towards bing atm

its still great engineering + im a partier so i think id prefer that

ive heard that the only way to get into parties are sbu are frats but like

im not trynna be a frat bro

also heard they pick mfs up in vans to take them to functions 💀

[tribal gazelle]

sketchy af💀

if i end up at sbu, i might do cse and ams double major

hopefully it wont kill me or make my entire life abt schoolwork

[hollow geyser]

grass touching about to be non existent 😭

[spark oriole]

yeah ong i dont even think social lifes an option with those choices 😭

my dad really wants me to double major in mechE with CS

im tellin him fuck naw man

[tribal gazelle]

naw ive heard its a popular double major

ams doesnt have a lot of credits they say

i honestly want to do science and cs

as a career

[midnight umbra]

any idea when sbu is releasing their next wave of rd decisions

i got deferred so idk if that makes a difference

[spark oriole]

anyone know when the deposit deadline is for sbu/binghamton?

[torpid lance]

may 15 for stony

[spark oriole]

my family wants to wait until fafsa comes out before committing

[tribal gazelle]

i think for sbu its may 15

[spark oriole]

thanks

[scenic cargo]

woahhhh

[remote glacier]

Anyone applied to stony for cs and got accepted?

[rapid stirrup]

Me

[remote glacier]

Int ?

[rapid stirrup]

Yeah

[remote glacier]

u committed to sbu?

[rapid stirrup]

Nope

[remote glacier]

are you planning to join sbu?

[rapid stirrup]

Nope

[remote glacier]

ohh then ?

[rapid stirrup]

For now, deciding between UMass and Purdue

And waiting for other decisions

[remote glacier]

ohhh

[tough verge]

Any idea when stony Brook releases scholarship info

[hollow geyser]

With the acceptance

[modern junco]

*merit based aid

Can’t do need-based yet it’s all fafsa-based

[hollow geyser]

new fafsa be delaying everything smh

[steady crow]

Yea

[left mauve]

Stony Brook is my old-reliable

always ams+cse so

[modern junco]

Macaulay in a week

Gl to all

[next lodge]

i applied there at hunter

[abstract cedar]

Guys, I applied to SBU a while back, and I just checked my portal recently, apparently i applied to an honors program without knowing [thought i de-selected it] but I already passed the day to submit any additional materials, does that means I automatically get cancelled for admission, or honors not going to be considered. 🤡 im lost

[tough verge]

When do honors decisions come out 💀

[torpid lance]

rolling

i got my sbu honors decidion in like january

some of my friends got it yesterday

[still ridge]

just had an interview at suny purchase

i understand why mitski wrote lush and retired from sad, new career in business now

[brisk venture]

Really? I really liked it and am considering attending! What did you find negative?

[still ridge]

it’s mostly the campus lol

it’s just kinda depressing

very grey

[brisk venture]

Thats fair it is my least favorite aspect of the school but I love a lot of other aspects! It’s my favorite of the schools I’ve gotten into so far (tied with SAIC), but I hope I get into some of my higher up choices (like reaches and all.) What other schools are you considering?

[still ridge]

i’m considering a ton (my major is stage management, and the programs for it are few and far between and also very selective), but once i know what my options are it’ll probably come down to where the money is

my top two that i’ve been accepted to right now are penn state (one of the best programs in the country + in-state) and calarts (another great program but very expensive)

[brisk venture]

Totally fair I’m really into film and really like purchases program for it, calarts is really cool I’ve heard, but super expensive idk much about penn state though. Good luck! (I also love Ricky Montgomery and when I misclicked on your profile I noticed!)

[wicked salmon]

does anyone have an estimate for when sbu is coming?

[sterile dagger]

i think it's just honors isn't considered

i got into sbu a while ago (before the honors essays were due) and forgot to submit the honors stuff and they didn't rescind me (yet 💀) so i think you're fine

[remote glacier]

how can you transfer to honors if you were accepted into normal sbu

I applied past honors deadline 💀

[tough verge]

When will SBU honors decisions come out?

Also does SBU have any scholarships intls can apply for?

[abstract cedar]

👍

[spark oriole]

does UB give scholarships through the admissions letter like Bing and SBU?

bc if so then i guess im not going to UB 😭

[next lodge]

they send a separate email after the acceptance

mine came like 2 months after i got in for some reason

if i dont get into stony or bing im most likely going to ub

[spark oriole]

im jumpy between bing and sbu tbh

only interested in ub if they give me aid

[next lodge]

i didnt get stony yet

they deferred me along with bing

[wraith wave]

ub and bing are the only sunys that didnt send me any scholarship stuff yet

didnt apply to sbu

[torpid lance]

sbu gave me some small merit aid with my acceptance

bing gave nothing lol

[next lodge]

stony is my top choice so if i get in im definitely committing

the wait is killing me tho

but this is what i get for applying for cs ig

[torpid lance]

sbu cs is hard af

i have friends who got into purdue and michigan cs and got deferred by stony

[spark oriole]

bing sent me scholarship like a week after acceptance through the male

like December something

[left mauve]

Why not just get into something like ams then apply for a dual major?

[torpid lance]

cause they wanna study cs it aint that deep

[modern junco]

what's the male doing

[spark oriole]

mb wrong gender

mail

[lethal jolt]

is bing or stony better for chemistry

[severe minnow]

bing

bing > for sciences/business

[hollow geyser]

sbu > for anything and everything

[gilded fable]

No

[left mauve]

Is it not
SBU> stem
Bing> all else

[tribal gazelle]

yall make me fall in love with stony

i just got rejected from mit lmao

stony is the best school that ive gotten into

[lethal jolt]

what else have u gotten into

[tribal gazelle]

cunys

rpi and rit

[lethal jolt]

did u get into bing

[tribal gazelle]

i didnt apply to bing

[lethal jolt]

what major btw

oh

[tribal gazelle]

cs

potentially a double major with ams

[lethal jolt]

stony and rpi are both really good cs schools

[tribal gazelle]

rpi is 50k tho

soooo

[lethal jolt]

oh well

stony also has a very good cs program

[tribal gazelle]

yeah but ive heard the profs are pretty bad lol

[lethal jolt]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/hsy5ri/public_university_highlights_9_suny_stony_brook/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

idk if you've seen this or not

[abstract cedar]

Where is my stony brook

feel like everyone got their reply back

[tribal gazelle]

i have not ty

[tribal gazelle]

i applied ea and got my reply exactly a month later

[abstract cedar]

I applied rd

But is been like more than a month or so

Augh

[tribal gazelle]

ye its rolling, ive heard many ppl got their rd decisions earlier than ppl who got their ea

so u just gotta wait

[modern junco]

Rejected from macaulay honors 🔥🔥🔥

[next lodge]

i got waitlisted

[quiet pewter]

has anyone heard from stonybrook honors college or their medical program yet?

[torpid lance]

yeah a bunch have already gotten into honors college

dont know anybody who has heard from the med program

[quiet pewter]

ah thanks

[wicked salmon]

literlaly what is this

ugly ass rejection lettr

second paragraph isnt even finished??? 😭 LMFAO

[low igloo]

lol what the heck

[next lodge]

😭 tf

[outer shard]

wait is honors college rolling?

or did i just not get it

[torpid lance]

rolling

[outer shard]

okok bet

[stark sonnet]

bro

where is my decision

for stony

[torpid lance]

mb broski i ate it

[tribal gazelle]

💀

bro is never getting into cse now

[stark sonnet]

broo

wdfff

I needed that shit

[abstract cedar]

Isnt it all out

I got mine yesterday? And i thought i was the last wave

[stark sonnet]

nah

not mine

[next lodge]

still didnt get mine yet

[spice ice]

still nothing either

deferred ea

[tribal gazelle]

march isnt over yet tho

its weird how stony decision releases are this wonky

[outer shard]

keep your hopes up, i was deferred ea and i got in w presidential scholarship

[spice ice]

yeah sbu would be high as shit if they didnt let me in with a boatload of merit

[hollow geyser]

That is true. But at the same time, even rolling action/waves can only send out so much applications

[next lodge]

this year is taking a while cause they received 60k apps

[tribal gazelle]

i wonder how nyu handles 100k apps

[next lodge]

so many new amounts of record apps are happening this year

same thing happened with bing which is why there were so many deferrals in ea

[tribal gazelle]

are standards rising with that as well?

im just glad i got into a decent ish uni

which is stony

looking back, i was pretty delulu with my app lmao

thank god stony doesnt really care abt ecs

[wicked salmon]

what do u think they care about?

i got rejected from stony but accepted stanford and northeastern

i was really shocked

[tribal gazelle]

how

[next lodge]

yield protection?

[tribal gazelle]

i remember their cds really cared abt gpa and test scores

[next lodge]

ive seen lots of people get rejected from stony and into t20s

[tribal gazelle]

mmm that means im not getting into t20s

[wicked salmon]

ah okay i went test optional for all my unis

[next lodge]

results should be out before april 1st

i submitted my sat everywhere

[tribal gazelle]

same

[wicked salmon]

kids who submitted test scores got in

from my school

so maybe trhats y

[tribal gazelle]

thats prob why yea

[next lodge]

i got deferred

[wicked salmon]

like ~1450-1490

[next lodge]

i had a 1440

[wicked salmon]

interesting i think u’ll get in

what other schools r u considering

[tribal gazelle]

applying for cs?

[next lodge]

bing (got deferred also) and ub (got in with a scholarship)

[next lodge]

yeah

[wicked salmon]

wow wtf so many people gor deferred from bing this year

[tribal gazelle]

iirc on the cs admissions website, they said they like to see high math score

in sat

i applied with a 1490

with like 700 math score

and got in

[wicked salmon]

yeah i think my friend has a 700 on math too

[tribal gazelle]

if ur gpa is good, u should be in

[wicked salmon]

and got in

kinda bummed bc i loved stony

[next lodge]

my math was a 750

[wicked salmon]

heard their dorms suck soooo its ok

[tribal gazelle]

what do u like abt it

[wicked salmon]

thatss so good

[tribal gazelle]

their freshman dorms do suck i think

but like afterwards, it gets a lot better

[tribal gazelle]

u should be good, considering if u gpa is high enough

[wicked salmon]

it was like my dream school for in-state, amazing campus, decent-ish weather, very close to home but not too close (important for me), very very diverse (also important)

[next lodge]

its a 94

[tribal gazelle]

im just scared of the bad profs

[wicked salmon]

pwpis scare me and lots of my teachers went to stony snd loved it

[next lodge]

the close to home part is also important for me

[wicked salmon]

i think the pre med profs are annoying as shit

[tribal gazelle]

hmmm

[next lodge]

i want to dorm but i dont want to be too far from home

[tribal gazelle]

ive heard the cse profs arent that good eithr

most are ehh

[next lodge]

yeah its slightly lower than my schools average but i took a lot of hard classes

[tribal gazelle]

there are some notorious ones

[tribal gazelle]

were ur math and physics grades good

[wicked salmon]

yeah also i heard most of them are super hard to communicate with

[next lodge]

my math is also 90+

[wicked salmon]

this was the reason i really loved it. it's like a traditional college exp but im still close to fam

[tribal gazelle]

u should be good? best u can do is wait anyways

i didnt apply to any other sunys lol bc i heard stony was the best at cs

so i was like eh im not gonna bother

ub gets destroyed with snow every year lol so i didnt apply there

[wicked salmon]

yeah ngl ni think ull be giood

idk stony is weird ngl

like they deferred sooo many in-state applicants

[tribal gazelle]

i swear oos and ints ahve a higher acceptance rate lol

[outer shard]

yoo same

[quiet pewter]

im ngl i applied to stonybrook and binghamton as my safeties, idk what gave me the confidence but i just knew i'd get in

still waiting on honors college and medicine scholars decision from stonybrook tho

[tribal gazelle]

i mean they were ur safeties, u should have confidence that youd get in

[vocal hedge]

bruh

I got rejected by binghamton

im screwed

[stark sonnet]

NO UR FINE

[vocal hedge]

it was a reach/target for me tho

[hoary skiff]

anyone going to sbu cali reception on wednesday ?

[lethal jolt]

was thinking abt it

do you think it would be worth going to

[hoary skiff]

im going ! too far+expensive to visit campus so i think it’ll be worth it

im from socal so it also is only 1 hour away for me

[lethal jolt]

oh man. yeah its gonna be a 4 hour drive for me 😭

[spark oriole]

same lmfao

then i saw bings acceptance rate and was like wtf

still got in but i paid no mind to them until i actually got in 😭

[hoary skiff]

sbu honors college rejection wtf 😐

[wraith wave]

how did i get ub honors but got rejected for albany honors lmaoo

[hoary skiff]

can get into uci but can't get sbu honors 😭

my sat score was >75% for university scholars man

[grizzled lance]

i think i forgot to submit my stony honors essay 💀

totally forgot until i saw my decision today lmao

[royal coyote]

new to this thread, anyone commuting from nyc to sbu?

i live next to penn station and its showing a 2hr commute w/lirr

is that viable

[grizzled lance]

don't do that to urself

i alr do that commute everyday and it's hell

[royal coyote]

from where

[grizzled lance]

staten island to the bronx

don't do it 👎

[royal coyote]

bronx sci?

[grizzled lance]

yes

[royal coyote]

hsmse here

[grizzled lance]

ohh nice

[royal coyote]

15 min train ride LOL

i love the a train ❤️

[grizzled lance]

lucky 😭

i got like 1 hr bus and 1 hr train

[royal coyote]

ripp

doesnt bronx sci do private buses

[grizzled lance]

yea but it doesnt go to staten island

and it's overpriced

[royal coyote]

yeah i heard its for uh

you know

[grizzled lance]

queens kids :/

[royal coyote]

i guess

sbu w safety?!

[grizzled lance]

yes

rejected honors tho 🤣

bing > stony for me so im prob gonna withdraw

[royal coyote]

nahhhh bing too far

im tryna stay at home bruh

[grizzled lance]

i see

i wanna leave 😭

[royal coyote]

why

ur on staten island ur prolly loaded

im thinking about leaving bruh my area has all the migrants and homeless people

[grizzled lance]

nah we moved to staten island cuz it has the cheapest houses in nyc

except for the bronx

[royal coyote]

(never move to the bronx)

[grizzled lance]

but the bronx is kinda not safe

LOL

[royal coyote]

honestly

if u go far far far

like country club or pelham

i heard its not too bad

but its the bronx bruh

[grizzled lance]

yea but then the prices are basically like queens/brooklyn

si had the best cost to safety ratio ig

[royal coyote]

fr

stony brook is a little popular with my school

just a tad

[grizzled lance]

omg naviance

[royal coyote]

naviance is king

[grizzled lance]

i used to obsessively look up every school 💀

[royal coyote]

(it cannot be trusted)

its cool to look at sometimes

[grizzled lance]

lmao

[royal coyote]

jesus christ

thats an interesting trend

a lot of people with 1550+ but less than 90 avg

[royal coyote]

is there a reason for that if u know

[grizzled lance]

i think it's just more variability as it dips below 90

[royal coyote]

interesting

our school is tiny so our sbu apps were 80% of the senior class

which is around 100 or 120 people

the counselors still have negative time though

[grizzled lance]

yea ours is abt 70%

[royal coyote]

specialized high school gang

[grizzled lance]

this is bing

def interesting

[royal coyote]

bruh

its like an arrow head

lemme find mine

[grizzled lance]

yea

seems like they like more extreme sat + gpas

[royal coyote]

20x less kids LOL

[grizzled lance]

interesting

LMAO

[royal coyote]

we're so smalll haha

but somehow the halls are always packed

[grizzled lance]

it's like 100 kids per grade right?

[royal coyote]

around that yeah

a little more recently

[grizzled lance]

ohh

[royal coyote]

we got super inflated we're #1 in the entire area

and our shsat score spiked 40 points up

[grizzled lance]

LOL

oh damn

i think i put hsmse second

[royal coyote]

540 i think now

[grizzled lance]

or third

jesus

i wouldnt have gotten in lmao

[royal coyote]

BEAT STUY

kill stuy

stuy must perish.................

(we're all stuy rejects)

i wonder how cracked stuy's naviance must be