Bignhamton a TOP school? Really - that a tier school, at best!
Hate to burst your bubble, but you might need higher grades to get into Binghamton than UNC or Lafayette.
I am a fan of Binghamton as a great school for sure. But look at acceptance rate, size & grad rate with UNC vs Bing vs LC-
UNC- 27% acceptance rate 29,000 students on campus, 81% grad rate Bing- 42% acceptance rate 16,000 students on campus, 69% grad rate Lafayette- 34% acceptance rate 2500 students on campus, 85% grad rate
Its tough to compare Lafayette College with the other two schools, LC is a small school but a good patriot league school.
So looking at this you can simply see UNC is the "better" school! There is one major issue tho, our kids are LACROSSE players. Lets just put it this way, UNC lacrosse players have different obligations academically than NON ACC or Big 10 programs.
let's look at this from a different angle, not lacrosse or size but national rankings.
UNC - 50 Bing - 174 Lafa - 48
from this national ranking, i would send my child to either UNC or Lafayette, assuming we exclude LAX from this equation.
You can quote all the rankings and stats you want, you still need higher grades to get into Bing. Easier to get into UNC or LC than Bing, sorry. Btw just because a school like UNC has so many more kids applying than Bing, thus artificially lowering their acceptance rate doesn't make it any better. Sorry. Might have better sports and name recognition, but you have to be smarter to get into Bing. LC only let's in 500 kids a year, again artificially lowering acceptance rate. Ranking from magazines are made up to sell ad space.
