SUNY schools — why aren’t they as popular as other OOS schools

[Anonymous]

New Paltz is nice and in a nice area and right on amtrak and metro north so very easy to get into NYC- there are others too. IT is a great value if that is what you are looking for but not elitist or fancy - - Also upstate NY is virtually identical to most of the towns in Maine, etc. .that everyone is always so excited about - I find it bizarre for example why Hamilton/Colgate are bashed for the weather and rural location but not Bowdoin, Bates, Colby etc..

[Anonymous]

The SUNYs just don’t market in this area. My kids get these beautiful mailers everyday from all these schools, but never a SUNY.

That’s ok though, I respect what they are doing for their own residents. Their purpose is not to serve OOS families, nor is it that how they make budget.

Pros to SUNYs - might be a great opportunity to play a D3 sport (look at Geneseo’s Ice Hockey, soccer, equestrian, and lax). Great niche programs. Great teachers colleges. And they are cheap!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The SUNYs just don’t market in this area. My kids get these beautiful mailers everyday from all these schools, but never a SUNY.

That’s ok though, I respect what they are doing for their own residents. Their purpose is not to serve OOS families, nor is it that how they make budget.

Pros to SUNYs - might be a great opportunity to play a D3 sport (look at Geneseo’s Ice Hockey, soccer, equestrian, and lax). Great niche programs. Great teachers colleges. And they are cheap!

+ 1. Yes, they seem to be much cheaper than other instate colleges and universities. I know Binghamton has become extremely difficult to get into, especially this year. I know happy students there and Buffalo and also at the smaller colleges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FIT is a SUNY.

Great school, great price.

[Anonymous]

NY did terribly setting up its SUNY schools - too many schools on the cheap, ugly buildings, just a disaster. Binghamton and Albany are the 2 most depressing campuses I’ve ever been on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of the SUNY schools, Stonybrook, Binghamton, Geneseo, Buffalo, Oswego, all seem like opportunities to get great educations plus they give merit money to OOS. Why aren’t they more popular?

SUNY schools’ students are mostly from NY. Is it possible many people don’t want to hang out with a lot of New Yorkers every day?

[Anonymous]

Why is Michigan popular when it's colder? Sunny academics are more challenging too

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Geneseo is as lovely as any campus, anywhere.

And you can walk right off campus into a town with cafes and restaurants catering to the college crowd.

[Anonymous]

So many people on this forum assume good weather means warm. Being from the north, I actually like winter. And I would dread the heat of summer (or May and September) on any southern campus.

Embrace winter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of the SUNY schools, Stonybrook, Binghamton, Geneseo, Buffalo, Oswego, all seem like opportunities to get great educations plus they give merit money to OOS. Why aren’t they more popular?

SUNY schools’ students are mostly from NY. Is it possible many people don’t want to hang out with a lot of New Yorkers every day?

New York is a large state with a huge variety of people. There is no “one kind” of New Yorker. My friends from VA liken it to the generalized differences between someone from Lynchburg vs NOVA vs VA Beach. SUNY is a solid choice.

[Anonymous]

The SUNY school mission is to reach a broad base of the state population and cater to both traditional and non-traditional students. 93 percent of New Yorkers live within 15 miles of a SUNY campus, and nearly 100 percent live within 30 miles.

I think they would be more well known if they had at least one school that could compete at a high level at basketball or football.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The SUNYs just don’t market in this area. My kids get these beautiful mailers everyday from all these schools, but never a SUNY.

That’s ok though, I respect what they are doing for their own residents. Their purpose is not to serve OOS families, nor is it that how they make budget.

Pros to SUNYs - might be a great opportunity to play a D3 sport (look at Geneseo’s Ice Hockey, soccer, equestrian, and lax). Great niche programs. Great teachers colleges. And they are cheap!

Maybe the SUNYs just don't need to market to OOS? NYS is known to resource its education system, NY has a large population, and the schools are heavily utilized by NYS students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of the SUNY schools, Stonybrook, Binghamton, Geneseo, Buffalo, Oswego, all seem like opportunities to get great educations plus they give merit money to OOS. Why aren’t they more popular?

SUNY schools’ students are mostly from NY. Is it possible many people don’t want to hang out with a lot of New Yorkers every day?

New York is a large state with a huge variety of people. There is no “one kind” of New Yorker. My friends from VA liken it to the generalized differences between someone from Lynchburg vs NOVA vs VA Beach. SUNY is a solid choice.

I would agree with this. NYS is so much more than NYC and NYC burbs, just as VA is so much more than NOVA.

From a Current VA resident who is a NY transplant.

[Anonymous]

Former NY'er again... although I will add that NYC and Long Island folks do tend to dominate because population.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NY did terribly setting up its SUNY schools - too many schools on the cheap, ugly buildings, just a disaster. Binghamton and Albany are the 2 most depressing campuses I’ve ever been on.

Or is it possible NYS focused on the important things and not the pretty campuses?

I do agree that campuses are not attractive. But who cares? They are state schools. These schools give solid educations to a lot of students at a very reasonable cost.