Hello! I’m a rising junior (out of state) that recently toured the UAlbany campus and I absolutely fell in love with the campus. FiveQuad seemed like a wonderful volunteering opportunity (especially since my father used to be a volunteer EMT), the dorms were lovely, the campus was beautiful and walkable, all the facilities were clean, overall just a beautiful campus.
However, I feel I may be overqualified for the university (not to be a pretentious jackass).
I’m projected to finish HS with all high bs to low/mid A’s (~4.3-4.5 weighted on a 4.0, I think my weighted rn is like a 98 bc my school uses a 100.000 scale), and projected to get ~1360-1440 on the SAT, meaning that the other universities im looking at are Drexel, Rutgers NB, Stevens, VT, Penn state, etc etc. The reason I’m interested is because I’ve heard amazing things about the Atmospheric Science department of the University, but I cannot find anything from US news about it, and dunno what to trust from any other source.
All of this is really buildup to a couple core questions I have.
A) What is the quality of education I’d be receiving under the Atmospheric Science Major? Are there any comparable programs?
B) What is campus life like? Enjoyable? Academic? What is the average student doing?
C) Would it be worth it for someone of my stature academically to engage in this program?
Any other comments or additional information is welcome, I wanna hear anything you guys have for me, any relevant information. Thanks for reading this period, and thanks for any advice you give a pretext! :3