I'm considering purchasing a MacBook Pro for grad school. The school requires that we use Microsoft Office. I've read some not so great reviews for office for Mac. Have any of you had good or bad experiences with office for Mac.
A new version is apparently on the way. Recommend checking that whichever Office version you choose (365, 2011, 2016) has the same features and plug-in support that the Windows versions do. This may not be a concern for your coursework, but if for example you have a statistics class that requires you to use an analytical add-on package that's only available for Windows version, then this could be a problem if the add-on is not available for the Mac version.
I've been using MS Office for OS X since I switched back in 2010. It works well for me - both v2008 and v2011. Looking forward to the 2016 version, as long as I can buy it outright and not have to do the monthly subscription.
Unless you are a power user you will be fine with Office for Mac.
I did a lot of research when I faced the same situation and found that there might be some small formatting/font differences when converting and some formula issues with some of the deeper complex things in Excel.