attention whore thread: college selection

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Interesting, I am quite familiar with both schools.

Stony Brook
Pro: Cheap, good academics for a state school, can be flexible about requirements
Con: High in Student unhappiness, suitcase school, Long Island, Lots of distribution requirements

Cornell:
Pro: Ithaca, High name recognition, Has a very large number of programs, Cheap close off campus housing
Con: Expensive

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Stony Brook. Odds are you'll drink the whole time and just drop out before graduating anyway so don't bother with the waste of money. And that's not an insult either, a majority of incoming college freshmen will NOT have graduated in 6 years (so for all the crap I get here, I still did better than half my incoming class.), so yeah it's a statistical fact, most people will not finish college so don't waste the money on some stupid private one.

Cornell really likes its students to graduate in 4 years. Stony Brook doesn't give a crap how long you take.

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While Cornell ranks better than Stony Brook academically, the difference is probably less than you would think. Bullsh**t prestige and "connections" may be a different story.

In Cornell's favor, if you live off campus, the cost of living is relatively low, and so the difference in the cost of attendence is actually less than what you think it is.