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Stony Brook University

How this student rated the school
Educational QualityF Faculty AccessibilityA
Useful SchoolworkB Excess CompetitionA+
Academic SuccessD Creativity/ InnovationA
Individual ValueB University Resource UseB
Campus Aesthetics/ BeautyA FriendlinessA+
Campus MaintenanceA Social LifeD-
Surrounding CityD Extra CurricularsB
SafetyA
Describes the student body as:
Friendly, Approachable

Describes the faculty as:
Friendly, Helpful

Female
Quite Bright
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She cares more about Educational Quality than the average student.
Date: Feb 06 2012
Major: Sociology (This Major's Salary over time)
Residence Life: Not the greatest. The dorms are basic, very few single rooms available, but clean. Be sure to hand in all your required paperwork by the due date, because if you're even a day late, you're SOL when it comes to room selection (I saw many a tear being shed when people didn't hand everything in on time). The lack of A/C in most buildings is a killer during move in and toward the end of the semester. The choices for food are lack-luster and over-priced. Buying your meals is like being mandated to pick from 7/11 offerings everyday.

Social Life: The campus EMPTIES OUT on the weekends. I don't know why so many people from NYC (and even the surrounding community) opt to pay to live in a dorm and then board the first LIRR train out of there on Friday morning. The whole campus pretty much shuts down on the weekend so if you're not from Long Island or New York City, you MUST join a fraternity/sorority, some other club, or get a part-time job on the weekend to keep yourself sane. You'll come across very few people who aren't from the area.

Education Quality: If you come here for science, you'll find the cost is well worth the education you obtain. Health Science Center students are very obviously the jewels in the undergraduate crown—their programs have a good clinical component AND they have first choice when it comes to the on-campus apartments. The rest of us social science majors don't fare so well. Then again, I wouldn't suggest ANYONE major in a social science ANYWHERE—but, if you opt to do that, I guess Stony Brook (or any SUNY school for that matter) will sting a little less when you begin student loan repayment.

Career Search: They do have a career center on campus which is helpful in terms of searching for jobs—not so much in actually obtaining a job. But that's the real world—unless you're on unemployment, you won't find anyone helping you as much as your college will to find jobs.

Faculty Quality: The faculty they do have is great. I had more great professors than I had bad professors. Unfortunately, Stony Brook still is a business and they are trying to cut costs. That means eliminating tenured professors in many of the non-science fields and filling them with part-time adjunct professors who are still great, but will leave if the option for tenure is more compelling at another university.

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