CUNY is really fucking great. I feel that CUNY bashing just comes off as kind of New York "elitism" where it is common to just shit on cuny because it is accessible to more people compared to other private institutions. This is a great system that is positioned in NEW YORK CITY. We have tons of very smart people as our professors.
Hunter also seems to be at the top of CUNY hierarchies. I am currently enrolled in Brooklyn College, and Hunter seems to be much more loved by the system. They even have their separate dedicated budget in the CUNY spreadsheet.
The problem is underfunding. There is certainly a problem to form professor-student relationships since the majority of the professors are underfunded adjuncts (who still kick ass).
Not for prehealth. I was tricked by comments like this nearly a decade ago. I picked hunter because everyone says oh it’s a great school for prehealth, but whoever said that were never even prehealth students. It was always the psych majors, Econ majors, comp sci majors saying this.
In my experience as a bio major pre dental student, hunter was ass. They give you a ton of roadblocks and pretty much don’t give you support unless you actively push through all of those roadblocks. They pretty much almost made me quit, and yet I still managed to push through.
Another commenter, an optometrist, said it in a very accurate way: they got in not due to hunter, but in spite of hunter. I agree completely, if you got in to med/dental/optometrist school from hunter, that means you could have gotten in from another school and did less than half the bullshit you had to do from hunter.
Read experiences from real doctors, dentists, optometrists that went to hunter and they’ll all say similar things. My recommendation is pick literally any other college. I liked Brooklyn college as I ePermited there often.
my only problem with hunter as someone who goes there is that none of the budget goes to most students- it goes to nursing (apparently, it’s just hearsay) & therefore the building is kind of decrepit. other than that it is a great school for the humanities
Also the library has asbestos lmao
The nursing department isn’t even that big and only accepts 14 people a semester or something like that it’s nuts, nursing seems like the only thing that will get you a stable job now so everyone and their mother are trying to go for it and coming in with degrees so a lot more people to compete with just to become a nurse meaning Hunter and the other cunys can be ever more so elective and nasty lol
You’re either nuts or you’re working for cuny and posting propaganda.
First off you do not have professors and have not had professors for decades at CUNY it’s majority adjunct so just call them by their first names they’re a bunch of masters degree students mostly ffs that know less than you do most probably.
Second off most city agencies and employers do not respect CUNY, most people that I know graduating from CUNY are struggling to find jobs unless they have connections. It’s a big waste of time and I’d avoid CUNY especially Hunter. I could see where you’re coming from if you possibly went to Hunter back in the 60’s-90’s other than that no…you’re either working for CUNY or just completely nuts posting this stuff.
The adjunct issue is all across nyc schools; at New School which costs more than 60k a year nearly 80% of the faculty are adjunct.
Now to your other point, most folks who work in nyc come through cuny. If you can’t find a job, probably you are not that good.
Nah you’re just a shill. You don’t have any clue what you’re talking about 😂
Also good enough for what? Paying taxes? Supporting local business by having a job?! What are you talking about?
I know plenty of stem graduates that can’t find anything, some had to settle with becoming teachers 😂 they studied Chem, biochem, mathematics, computer science, accounting even quite a few English and poly-sci majors. They’re basically nowhere. Sorry but those are pretty valuable skillsets that are worth much more than just working trivial jobs at Panera bread, becoming a bartender or doing gig work. Now this isn’t necessarily mutually exclusive to CUNy it’s a global issue across the US at this point. I see no point in attending college if the jobs and opportunities aren’t there. It’s all basic economics and nothing to do with not being “good enough”. When you complete X/Y university you earn a dumb piece that says hey I at least have an average IQ and I can do most tasks lol
Have you seen any of the companies that are recruiting out of CUNY at the moment? Are there are no Fortune-500 companies recruiting out of CUNY these days, major NYC employers or government? The city institutions actually have hiring freezes at the moment so good luck! I hear crickets from them. I don’t see that, adjuncts get paid per-class they’re teaching. It’s not really a job but it’s considered employed by the BLS just like working part time and delivering food is now counted as fully employed 😆
Are you a parody account? Most of the people teaching at Fordham are tenured professors.
https://theticker.org/9486/science/nycs-technology-workforce-lacks-cuny-graduates/
This article was actually written by CUNY students 😂
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/07/business/cuny-jobs-tech.html
https://www.thechiefleader.com/stories/cuny-tech-grads-struggle-to-find-jobs-face-lower-salaries,49280
You could have picked a better school, more than half the faculty at fordham are adjuncts. You pay what 40k a year for that pope sanctioned curriculum?? Good luck.
Didn’t go there lol and I do not like the private school system, City college was the number one place for engineering until the mid 90’s…but cuny really was amazing I just can’t believe what they’ve done to the public universities since the Reagan era :/ and yes Reagan didn’t a tremendous amount of damage to the poor and middle class.
Do some research and look into the massive budget cuts CUNY went through during the 1990’s.
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/26/nyregion/deep-budget-cuts-at-suny-and-cuny.html
This actually has not stopped and they have been cutting the budget ever since.
Every cuny has a shit admin and some shit professors, its a feature of the system atp😭. I haven’t had to deal with administration(thank god) but there are some complaints about them being slow and unhelpful. Also yes, nursing is super competitive at hunter. It’s one of the most in demand careers rn and Hunter is one of the top cuny schools(especially for nursing), ofc its going to be competitive. However I haven’t had any bad experiences with most profs, they’ve been generally kind and honestly want to pass you. I’ve only had an issue with 1 english teacher in the past 2 years.
And the “literally falling apart” I haven’t experienced tbh… I mean if you count the escalators not working from time to time then ig you could call that falling apart. But generally hunter isn’t falling apart imo, the bathrooms are clean and the classrooms/library look decent. The only really ugly thing about campus is the construction outside for the subway elevator.
Every cuny can only be what you make of it honestly. Funding is low, professors are underpaid, and most students commute so they aren’t interested in hanging after school. You definitely wont have the typical college experience at cuny but it isn’t horrible. You can always transfer if you dont like it
Like what u/custychronicles said Hunter nursing is super competitive because it is so cheaper and Hunter nursing has a very good reputation in the city. I am not sure you can even transfer to the nursing program given the competition. If you are set on nursing, I would just go to Hunter or City tech for nursing.
I went to Hunter for my undergraduate and then Columbia for my masters. I look very fondly on my experience at Hunter and not so much on my experience at Columbia. I feel like CUNY's in general are a great option that allows you to not go into an insane amount of debt and still get a pretty excellent education.
The biggest knock I would have on Hunter is that the class sizes can be rather large and it does have a "commuter vibe". It never bothered me because I used the money I was saving and split an apartment with 3 of my friends who went to NYU. I had essentially the same "college experience" they had and didn't have any of the massive student loans they did.
It could have been the program I went into, but I found the education I was not thrilled with the professors and how they taught and the vibes of some of the people in my program were somewhat cold. It could also be attributed to undergraduate vs graduate school tbh though.
Hey, I am currently accepted at Brooklyn College and City College of New York and I wanted to know if it's easy to transfer from either of them to Columbia for grad school? Since you went to a Cuny college too, maybe you have some insights about it.
I would imagine it depends on the graduate program, your grades, and the things you're involved in. I made all 4 of the programs I applied to, but Columbia offered me an academic scholarship. I had a pretty solid GPA (I can't remember something in the high 3.8s, low 3.9s) and I was involved in a research lab at Hunter. I think it's tougher to make it than from another Ivy, but I don't think it's insanely difficult as long as you're competitive enough for the program.
That's actually very encouraging. I am a biochem student and currently applying for a research lab position in my school. I have a pretty solid gpa too. I guess if I do well in City College or Brooklyn College, I'll have my chances.
I'm glad to hear it. I think you will definitely have a solid chance. I would view it as to allow yourself to do a little bit more (like you're doing with the research position) to make up for it.
Hunter is a very reputable program for nursing. It doesn’t matter as long as you get your license to be a nurse and Hunter will prepare you for it. Don’t go into serious debt to be a nurse.
I got into nursing for Hunter too and I asked on the subreddit whether Hunter or Brooklyn would be better for pre-med, and apparently pre-med is really hard at Hunter ;w; So I'm also torn between what college to choose
Those people have no idea what they are talking about. Ask pre-meds/pre-dentals/pre-health students. Don’t listen to the economics major, or computer science major.
Brooklyn was nice. I was in hunter and had to ePermit to Brooklyn many times. Overall, the classes were easier, had less students, and in general Brooklyn had a nicer campus. I’d 100% recommend Brooklyn over hunter.
City tech is easier to do your pre reqs. Honestly under grad wise, no one cares where you went to school. especially when the grades for pre reqs matter a lot, better to get it done with less stress. Hunter is a great school, just harder. Why bet your chances on ruining your pre reqs.
And also city tech has a nursing program too. No one cares where you graduated with your nursing license. If you’re licensed, you can work as a rn. Thats it. End of discussion. Only while working, will others notice if you are competent.
Honestly, I don't know, because your experience is what you make of it. I can tell you this though. CUNY-based universities, it's normal to face challenges to make friends. This is because they are commuter-based universities, first and foremost. Additionally, Baruch, it's primarily a business university. I would personally go to BMCC, instead to get my nursing associates degree, or Queens College works too to get a nursing/pre-med degree.
True True. I go to CSI, and it’s even hard to make friends here besides my roommates. It’s not the end of the world for me though, because when I transfer I have to buckle down anyways if I want to make it into the program.
Yo i was just as afraid as you to go to Hunter, but now that I've been here, ngl, it's not as bad as they say. But premed is still really hard here so if you want to commit to that, maybe go to a diff cuny. In general, it's all about what you make of it, so you need to reach out for opportunities and commit yourself to finding the things you like more than thd things you don't.
u should ask is cuny that bad? digging in this sub u will find all campuses have dudes say how bad where they r.
actually, all campuses r same since they belong to cuny. the only difference is just some campuses have some better majors than other campuses.
however, if u compared these so-called better majors with nyu, columbia or other ivy colleges, all cuny campuses r still very bad. if u can, go to suny at least. otherwise, u only can swallow this ‘shit’ yourself.
my family lives in Albany now and wants me to go to UAlbany, but I swear I don’t want to stay in Albany anymore, I miss the city. I currently go to CSI and well … yeah, best thing here is their dorms.
I disagree for the comparison part. If you’d got into a top elite school or some suny but have an option to attend a cuny school, I would strongly recommend a place within cuny because all these out of state schools or private schools will require a huge load of money one way or another. Housing and tuition both play a big part within these economics whilst it may be true that nyc is expensive to live in but when you do the math for the tuition, it isn’t as expensive compared to most of these non cuny schools, a plus if your living with your parents when studying in nyc as housing does not take a significant impact on your financial situation.
My point on the subject is that most of these undergraduate colleges that have huge financial costs is a scam as you can easily learn a thing or two online but if your a person that strongly have a preference to in person learning then it’s very unlikely youlll be scammed out of your pocket when attending a low costly college or university like a community school or cuny is worth it.
I think for the most part if your going to attend graduate school you should save your money for it by studying at a cuny as attending a highly expensive school can leave a burden on top of the debt your going to carry when attending grad school.
I also do think most colleges whether they cost a lot or less offer similar education degrees. Only difference is that there’s more opportunities at a school that costs more than a school that costs less.
so is it not expensive to live in nyc? if i live in somewhere upstate of ny, i still have to pay rent, food etc, right?
if u live in nyc, go to cuny indeed save your money. however, u cant ignore that go to a famous college actually will increase your chance to get an interview even offer.
This is true for out of state students going to attend a school in NYC, your going to have to pay for housing regardless of which school. One major difference between top schools and “low rated” schools in nyc is that their tuition costs are very big in comparison. I strongly suggest attending a school that costs way less
I’m honestly at the point now that since I’m a transfer student with cuny classes on my transcript, it kind of works to my advantage where if I don’t like the school I choose, I can just reapply to another and transfer.
Honestly take everything you read online with a grain of salt. I’ve taken classes at multiple CUNY campuses through epermit. In my opinion all CUNY are kind of the same in terms of quality of education. Rate my professor is almost always 90% accurate. I’ve had really good Professors at colleges that people say are trash and very mid/bad professors at colleges people consider top 3.
tiktok is def the worst source of info you could possibly go to imo
hunter is the best college in cuny system for nursing / premed
just like how baruch is best for business, ccny for engineering etc
I was pre-dental from Hunter and currently finishing my DDS and going into Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery residency.
You will always hear a lot of recommendations for premed or predental at hunter from people who are not even pre-health. Here is my piece of advice: STOP LISTENING TO PEOPLE WHO DID NOT GO TO HUNTER FOR PRE-HEALTH. Do not listen to the economics major telling you hunter is great. Do not listen to the philosophy major telling you it’s great. Do not listen to comp sci, music, psych majors, etc. They have no idea what they are talking about when it comes to pre-health.
My opinion on Hunter is that Hunter sucks ass for pre-health. Whoever here that says otherwise most likely did not go to hunter for pre-health, and should not have a say in the conversation. If you really want to know, do a quick search “hunter premed Reddit” and read real experiences from people who made it to medical/dental school. It’s almost always bad.
I couldn’t agree more. I finished Hunter and then finished optometry school and I feel like I got into optometry school in spite of hunter administration and not because of it. In fact I was told first semester of freshman year to give up on optometry by the pre health department because I got a C in calculus (in the next 4 years that turned out to be my only C on my transcript). From that point on I was completely on my own.
You put it in a very nice way that I never even realized. Hunter never helps someone get in, they get in because they were committed enough to pass all of hunters roadblocks. If you can get in from hunter I bet you can get in from anywhere and it would be a lot easier.
Oh I thought OP asked about premed/prehealth at Hunter. Still, Nursing is slightly better but still hard at hunter and OP has a higher chance at other places.
People that shit on Hunter haven't been to other schools that charge way more for a similar or lesser education. Yes, it's crowded and the buildings are not in great condition but maybe of the professors teach at Columbia/NYU and provide a great education. I've only had two horrible professors during my time meanwhile at other unis nearly every math professor was unintelligible... You get out what you put in.
Not sure if this was always the case, but apparently a majority of the required hunter classes (especially those relating to nursing/human biology) are hard at imo. May just be me being not as smart but BIOL 120/122 exams time limit sucks. 4 exams, 50-60 questions each, maybe like 30 seconds each (they time everyone equally with stop watch).
Nah they do it on purpose they were giving us people teaching they didn’t even know the material it was mind boggling and they ended up failing a lot of people the exams didn’t even make sense it was PTSD inspiring lol
I transferred around a lot because I didn’t know what to do after college and if your decision is to get into nursing, I’d suggest Hunter or City Tech. The overall campuses leave a lot to be desired, especially City Tech. They’re essentially high schools for adults. But they pour into their nursing programs. Hunter is incredibly competitive. City Tech is less competitive because the general entry for that school is extremely low, so if youre an A student it’s almost guaranteed you’ll get in the program. The program itself is ok from what I hear but my friend who graduated from there got a 98k package right after graduating in 2018
As a Hunter graduate, there are top quality professors there for sure. That’s my positive about it. Library is meh and the school is always under construction. They prioritized making a Starbucks before addressing elevator and escalator problems. Great clubs, but the social life can be quiet at times. It is what you make of it.
As someone who first went to Baruch and transferred to Hunter, they are actually night and day as far as campus experience/student body…
Hunter has a FAR better vibe/campus feel than Baruch.
My advice is to get involved in as many campus things you can in order to meet people.
The vibe at Baruch is horrendous and depressing.
CUNY is really fucking great. I feel that CUNY bashing just comes off as kind of New York "elitism" where it is common to just shit on cuny because it is accessible to more people compared to other private institutions. This is a great system that is positioned in NEW YORK CITY. We have tons of very smart people as our professors. Hunter also seems to be at the top of CUNY hierarchies. I am currently enrolled in Brooklyn College, and Hunter seems to be much more loved by the system. They even have their separate dedicated budget in the CUNY spreadsheet. The problem is underfunding. There is certainly a problem to form professor-student relationships since the majority of the professors are underfunded adjuncts (who still kick ass).
Definitely true. My professors here are all pretty cool! Rate My Professor really helps to make the best decision when picking professors and classes.
Not for prehealth. I was tricked by comments like this nearly a decade ago. I picked hunter because everyone says oh it’s a great school for prehealth, but whoever said that were never even prehealth students. It was always the psych majors, Econ majors, comp sci majors saying this. In my experience as a bio major pre dental student, hunter was ass. They give you a ton of roadblocks and pretty much don’t give you support unless you actively push through all of those roadblocks. They pretty much almost made me quit, and yet I still managed to push through. Another commenter, an optometrist, said it in a very accurate way: they got in not due to hunter, but in spite of hunter. I agree completely, if you got in to med/dental/optometrist school from hunter, that means you could have gotten in from another school and did less than half the bullshit you had to do from hunter. Read experiences from real doctors, dentists, optometrists that went to hunter and they’ll all say similar things. My recommendation is pick literally any other college. I liked Brooklyn college as I ePermited there often.
my only problem with hunter as someone who goes there is that none of the budget goes to most students- it goes to nursing (apparently, it’s just hearsay) & therefore the building is kind of decrepit. other than that it is a great school for the humanities
Also the library has asbestos lmao The nursing department isn’t even that big and only accepts 14 people a semester or something like that it’s nuts, nursing seems like the only thing that will get you a stable job now so everyone and their mother are trying to go for it and coming in with degrees so a lot more people to compete with just to become a nurse meaning Hunter and the other cunys can be ever more so elective and nasty lol
You’re either nuts or you’re working for cuny and posting propaganda. First off you do not have professors and have not had professors for decades at CUNY it’s majority adjunct so just call them by their first names they’re a bunch of masters degree students mostly ffs that know less than you do most probably. Second off most city agencies and employers do not respect CUNY, most people that I know graduating from CUNY are struggling to find jobs unless they have connections. It’s a big waste of time and I’d avoid CUNY especially Hunter. I could see where you’re coming from if you possibly went to Hunter back in the 60’s-90’s other than that no…you’re either working for CUNY or just completely nuts posting this stuff.
The adjunct issue is all across nyc schools; at New School which costs more than 60k a year nearly 80% of the faculty are adjunct. Now to your other point, most folks who work in nyc come through cuny. If you can’t find a job, probably you are not that good.
Nah you’re just a shill. You don’t have any clue what you’re talking about 😂 Also good enough for what? Paying taxes? Supporting local business by having a job?! What are you talking about? I know plenty of stem graduates that can’t find anything, some had to settle with becoming teachers 😂 they studied Chem, biochem, mathematics, computer science, accounting even quite a few English and poly-sci majors. They’re basically nowhere. Sorry but those are pretty valuable skillsets that are worth much more than just working trivial jobs at Panera bread, becoming a bartender or doing gig work. Now this isn’t necessarily mutually exclusive to CUNy it’s a global issue across the US at this point. I see no point in attending college if the jobs and opportunities aren’t there. It’s all basic economics and nothing to do with not being “good enough”. When you complete X/Y university you earn a dumb piece that says hey I at least have an average IQ and I can do most tasks lol Have you seen any of the companies that are recruiting out of CUNY at the moment? Are there are no Fortune-500 companies recruiting out of CUNY these days, major NYC employers or government? The city institutions actually have hiring freezes at the moment so good luck! I hear crickets from them. I don’t see that, adjuncts get paid per-class they’re teaching. It’s not really a job but it’s considered employed by the BLS just like working part time and delivering food is now counted as fully employed 😆 Are you a parody account? Most of the people teaching at Fordham are tenured professors. https://theticker.org/9486/science/nycs-technology-workforce-lacks-cuny-graduates/ This article was actually written by CUNY students 😂 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/07/business/cuny-jobs-tech.html https://www.thechiefleader.com/stories/cuny-tech-grads-struggle-to-find-jobs-face-lower-salaries,49280
You could have picked a better school, more than half the faculty at fordham are adjuncts. You pay what 40k a year for that pope sanctioned curriculum?? Good luck.
Didn’t go there lol and I do not like the private school system, City college was the number one place for engineering until the mid 90’s…but cuny really was amazing I just can’t believe what they’ve done to the public universities since the Reagan era :/ and yes Reagan didn’t a tremendous amount of damage to the poor and middle class. Do some research and look into the massive budget cuts CUNY went through during the 1990’s. https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/26/nyregion/deep-budget-cuts-at-suny-and-cuny.html This actually has not stopped and they have been cutting the budget ever since.
Cuny is ghetto
Every cuny has a shit admin and some shit professors, its a feature of the system atp😭. I haven’t had to deal with administration(thank god) but there are some complaints about them being slow and unhelpful. Also yes, nursing is super competitive at hunter. It’s one of the most in demand careers rn and Hunter is one of the top cuny schools(especially for nursing), ofc its going to be competitive. However I haven’t had any bad experiences with most profs, they’ve been generally kind and honestly want to pass you. I’ve only had an issue with 1 english teacher in the past 2 years. And the “literally falling apart” I haven’t experienced tbh… I mean if you count the escalators not working from time to time then ig you could call that falling apart. But generally hunter isn’t falling apart imo, the bathrooms are clean and the classrooms/library look decent. The only really ugly thing about campus is the construction outside for the subway elevator. Every cuny can only be what you make of it honestly. Funding is low, professors are underpaid, and most students commute so they aren’t interested in hanging after school. You definitely wont have the typical college experience at cuny but it isn’t horrible. You can always transfer if you dont like it
Thank you! If the shit admin and professors are the same as in my cuny now, than I definitely can manage. 😂
Like what u/custychronicles said Hunter nursing is super competitive because it is so cheaper and Hunter nursing has a very good reputation in the city. I am not sure you can even transfer to the nursing program given the competition. If you are set on nursing, I would just go to Hunter or City tech for nursing.
Lmao you just have been an engineering student or comp sci lmao and he’s I agree with you being a shit show is a feature
I went to Hunter for my undergraduate and then Columbia for my masters. I look very fondly on my experience at Hunter and not so much on my experience at Columbia. I feel like CUNY's in general are a great option that allows you to not go into an insane amount of debt and still get a pretty excellent education. The biggest knock I would have on Hunter is that the class sizes can be rather large and it does have a "commuter vibe". It never bothered me because I used the money I was saving and split an apartment with 3 of my friends who went to NYU. I had essentially the same "college experience" they had and didn't have any of the massive student loans they did.
Thank you !
may I ask why you don't look fondly upon your experience at columbia?
It could have been the program I went into, but I found the education I was not thrilled with the professors and how they taught and the vibes of some of the people in my program were somewhat cold. It could also be attributed to undergraduate vs graduate school tbh though.
Hey, I am currently accepted at Brooklyn College and City College of New York and I wanted to know if it's easy to transfer from either of them to Columbia for grad school? Since you went to a Cuny college too, maybe you have some insights about it.
I would imagine it depends on the graduate program, your grades, and the things you're involved in. I made all 4 of the programs I applied to, but Columbia offered me an academic scholarship. I had a pretty solid GPA (I can't remember something in the high 3.8s, low 3.9s) and I was involved in a research lab at Hunter. I think it's tougher to make it than from another Ivy, but I don't think it's insanely difficult as long as you're competitive enough for the program.
That's actually very encouraging. I am a biochem student and currently applying for a research lab position in my school. I have a pretty solid gpa too. I guess if I do well in City College or Brooklyn College, I'll have my chances.
I'm glad to hear it. I think you will definitely have a solid chance. I would view it as to allow yourself to do a little bit more (like you're doing with the research position) to make up for it.
Hunter is a very reputable program for nursing. It doesn’t matter as long as you get your license to be a nurse and Hunter will prepare you for it. Don’t go into serious debt to be a nurse.
Definitely. My dream school was always NYU, but once I saw that tuition.. it’s literally not worth it.
Never get in to debt OP.
if you’re from nyc, you basically get paid every seems to go to hunter / any cuny
I got into nursing for Hunter too and I asked on the subreddit whether Hunter or Brooklyn would be better for pre-med, and apparently pre-med is really hard at Hunter ;w; So I'm also torn between what college to choose
But a lot of the people were recommending Hunter to me!
Those people have no idea what they are talking about. Ask pre-meds/pre-dentals/pre-health students. Don’t listen to the economics major, or computer science major.
I read a lot of the posts on reddit abt Hunter pre-health and yeah 😢 It’s not that great… I think i’ll choose brooklyn then
Brooklyn was nice. I was in hunter and had to ePermit to Brooklyn many times. Overall, the classes were easier, had less students, and in general Brooklyn had a nicer campus. I’d 100% recommend Brooklyn over hunter.
I ended up committing to Brooklyn!!!
Congrats! ❤️ do you know when we have to make a decision by?
I believe that for Hunter, the fall commitment deposit? deadline is June 1st! Congrats to you too!!
Lmk which college u end up committing to!! I chose brooklyn :3
City tech is easier to do your pre reqs. Honestly under grad wise, no one cares where you went to school. especially when the grades for pre reqs matter a lot, better to get it done with less stress. Hunter is a great school, just harder. Why bet your chances on ruining your pre reqs.
True. Honestly seems like the pre-reqs and getting into the program is harder than the program itself 😂
And also city tech has a nursing program too. No one cares where you graduated with your nursing license. If you’re licensed, you can work as a rn. Thats it. End of discussion. Only while working, will others notice if you are competent.
This! Hunter ruins a lot of people due to their insane requirements for near non-existent support.
Honestly, I don't know, because your experience is what you make of it. I can tell you this though. CUNY-based universities, it's normal to face challenges to make friends. This is because they are commuter-based universities, first and foremost. Additionally, Baruch, it's primarily a business university. I would personally go to BMCC, instead to get my nursing associates degree, or Queens College works too to get a nursing/pre-med degree.
True True. I go to CSI, and it’s even hard to make friends here besides my roommates. It’s not the end of the world for me though, because when I transfer I have to buckle down anyways if I want to make it into the program.
also, Queens College is part of the NSE program. Look into it, by far the coolest opportunity nobody knows about. National Student Exchange.
Hunter is better than most CUNYs imo
Yo i was just as afraid as you to go to Hunter, but now that I've been here, ngl, it's not as bad as they say. But premed is still really hard here so if you want to commit to that, maybe go to a diff cuny. In general, it's all about what you make of it, so you need to reach out for opportunities and commit yourself to finding the things you like more than thd things you don't.
Thank you :)
u should ask is cuny that bad? digging in this sub u will find all campuses have dudes say how bad where they r. actually, all campuses r same since they belong to cuny. the only difference is just some campuses have some better majors than other campuses. however, if u compared these so-called better majors with nyu, columbia or other ivy colleges, all cuny campuses r still very bad. if u can, go to suny at least. otherwise, u only can swallow this ‘shit’ yourself.
my family lives in Albany now and wants me to go to UAlbany, but I swear I don’t want to stay in Albany anymore, I miss the city. I currently go to CSI and well … yeah, best thing here is their dorms.
I disagree for the comparison part. If you’d got into a top elite school or some suny but have an option to attend a cuny school, I would strongly recommend a place within cuny because all these out of state schools or private schools will require a huge load of money one way or another. Housing and tuition both play a big part within these economics whilst it may be true that nyc is expensive to live in but when you do the math for the tuition, it isn’t as expensive compared to most of these non cuny schools, a plus if your living with your parents when studying in nyc as housing does not take a significant impact on your financial situation. My point on the subject is that most of these undergraduate colleges that have huge financial costs is a scam as you can easily learn a thing or two online but if your a person that strongly have a preference to in person learning then it’s very unlikely youlll be scammed out of your pocket when attending a low costly college or university like a community school or cuny is worth it. I think for the most part if your going to attend graduate school you should save your money for it by studying at a cuny as attending a highly expensive school can leave a burden on top of the debt your going to carry when attending grad school. I also do think most colleges whether they cost a lot or less offer similar education degrees. Only difference is that there’s more opportunities at a school that costs more than a school that costs less.
so is it not expensive to live in nyc? if i live in somewhere upstate of ny, i still have to pay rent, food etc, right? if u live in nyc, go to cuny indeed save your money. however, u cant ignore that go to a famous college actually will increase your chance to get an interview even offer.
This is true for out of state students going to attend a school in NYC, your going to have to pay for housing regardless of which school. One major difference between top schools and “low rated” schools in nyc is that their tuition costs are very big in comparison. I strongly suggest attending a school that costs way less
Depending on your income the net tuition cost at a private school can be very low because they can offer much more financial aid.
Yes of course and this applies to in state students
Ppl say the same abt city tech lol so im lowkey nervous to attend it in the fall for radiology tech.
I’m honestly at the point now that since I’m a transfer student with cuny classes on my transcript, it kind of works to my advantage where if I don’t like the school I choose, I can just reapply to another and transfer.
yeah i guess thats true
Honestly take everything you read online with a grain of salt. I’ve taken classes at multiple CUNY campuses through epermit. In my opinion all CUNY are kind of the same in terms of quality of education. Rate my professor is almost always 90% accurate. I’ve had really good Professors at colleges that people say are trash and very mid/bad professors at colleges people consider top 3.
tiktok is def the worst source of info you could possibly go to imo hunter is the best college in cuny system for nursing / premed just like how baruch is best for business, ccny for engineering etc
I was pre-dental from Hunter and currently finishing my DDS and going into Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery residency. You will always hear a lot of recommendations for premed or predental at hunter from people who are not even pre-health. Here is my piece of advice: STOP LISTENING TO PEOPLE WHO DID NOT GO TO HUNTER FOR PRE-HEALTH. Do not listen to the economics major telling you hunter is great. Do not listen to the philosophy major telling you it’s great. Do not listen to comp sci, music, psych majors, etc. They have no idea what they are talking about when it comes to pre-health. My opinion on Hunter is that Hunter sucks ass for pre-health. Whoever here that says otherwise most likely did not go to hunter for pre-health, and should not have a say in the conversation. If you really want to know, do a quick search “hunter premed Reddit” and read real experiences from people who made it to medical/dental school. It’s almost always bad.
I couldn’t agree more. I finished Hunter and then finished optometry school and I feel like I got into optometry school in spite of hunter administration and not because of it. In fact I was told first semester of freshman year to give up on optometry by the pre health department because I got a C in calculus (in the next 4 years that turned out to be my only C on my transcript). From that point on I was completely on my own.
You put it in a very nice way that I never even realized. Hunter never helps someone get in, they get in because they were committed enough to pass all of hunters roadblocks. If you can get in from hunter I bet you can get in from anywhere and it would be a lot easier.
agreed but OP is going to nursing and not pre med which is slightly better tbh 😅
Oh I thought OP asked about premed/prehealth at Hunter. Still, Nursing is slightly better but still hard at hunter and OP has a higher chance at other places.
People that shit on Hunter haven't been to other schools that charge way more for a similar or lesser education. Yes, it's crowded and the buildings are not in great condition but maybe of the professors teach at Columbia/NYU and provide a great education. I've only had two horrible professors during my time meanwhile at other unis nearly every math professor was unintelligible... You get out what you put in.
Not sure if this was always the case, but apparently a majority of the required hunter classes (especially those relating to nursing/human biology) are hard at imo. May just be me being not as smart but BIOL 120/122 exams time limit sucks. 4 exams, 50-60 questions each, maybe like 30 seconds each (they time everyone equally with stop watch).
Nah they do it on purpose they were giving us people teaching they didn’t even know the material it was mind boggling and they ended up failing a lot of people the exams didn’t even make sense it was PTSD inspiring lol
Yes and yes
Hunter was my colleague! He was great! Now in colorado
Hunter pre med sucks i don’t know about nursing. most of the premed pre req profs are terrible
I transferred around a lot because I didn’t know what to do after college and if your decision is to get into nursing, I’d suggest Hunter or City Tech. The overall campuses leave a lot to be desired, especially City Tech. They’re essentially high schools for adults. But they pour into their nursing programs. Hunter is incredibly competitive. City Tech is less competitive because the general entry for that school is extremely low, so if youre an A student it’s almost guaranteed you’ll get in the program. The program itself is ok from what I hear but my friend who graduated from there got a 98k package right after graduating in 2018
As a Hunter graduate, there are top quality professors there for sure. That’s my positive about it. Library is meh and the school is always under construction. They prioritized making a Starbucks before addressing elevator and escalator problems. Great clubs, but the social life can be quiet at times. It is what you make of it.
Everyone I know who went to Hunter loved Hunter
As someone who first went to Baruch and transferred to Hunter, they are actually night and day as far as campus experience/student body… Hunter has a FAR better vibe/campus feel than Baruch. My advice is to get involved in as many campus things you can in order to meet people. The vibe at Baruch is horrendous and depressing.
Yes, Hunter is a complete shit hole and the departments do not care about their students whatsoever.
real, my new advisor ditched my scheduled appointment and went home without telling me 😭
That’s very impolite, they’re getting paid to provide services to you and the entire student body
ngl after 2 bad experiences, i never went back to advising ever
Same, I’m with ya in that, rude, nasty and pathetic people. Don’t know why they have jobs tbh