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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:About 45 per cent of the comments on ‘DCUM colleges’ basically equate college quality with even the smallest and most inconsequential distinctions in the hallowed USNWR rankings.

About another 45 percent lament the high cost of college tuition.

Then you have threads like this where the same DCUM that gushes about (significantly) lower ranked schools like Auburn, South Carolina and Alabama will (almost universally) write off higher ranked and less expensive SUNY universities because of modern architecture, colder weather and no football - ‘it wasn’t for us.’

The answer to OP’s question is, groupthink, and second-rate intellects.

If you wanted to dive a little deeper, I’d guess it’s because many DCUM families see college fundamentally as a status marker more than a place to actually get an education, and the presence of some older buildings on the campuses of less distinguished ‘flagships’ allows DCUM - parents and kids alike - to pretend their chosen school is elite (‘educating segregationist leaders for decades’) and vaguely ‘ivy-adjacent’ which is a lot harder to pull off with the resolutely middle class, mass-education feel of most SUNY campuses.

+100 !!

[Anonymous]

I equate SUNY schools to CSU schools in CA (where I graduated). I think it's a great in state option for not so well of families (like mine), but I wouldn't pay oos for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:About 45 per cent of the comments on ‘DCUM colleges’ basically equate college quality with even the smallest and most inconsequential distinctions in the hallowed USNWR rankings.

About another 45 percent lament the high cost of college tuition.

Then you have threads like this where the same DCUM that gushes about (significantly) lower ranked schools like Auburn, South Carolina and Alabama will (almost universally) write off higher ranked and less expensive SUNY universities because of modern architecture, colder weather and no football - ‘it wasn’t for us.’

The answer to OP’s question is, groupthink, and second-rate intellects.

If you wanted to dive a little deeper, I’d guess it’s because many DCUM families see college fundamentally as a status marker more than a place to actually get an education, and the presence of some older buildings on the campuses of less distinguished ‘flagships’ allows DCUM - parents and kids alike - to pretend their chosen school is elite (‘educating segregationist leaders for decades’) and vaguely ‘ivy-adjacent’ which is a lot harder to pull off with the resolutely middle class, mass-education feel of most SUNY campuses.

+100 !!

+200

So well said. My high stats kid wants to be a doctor, we are in NY, and if she winds up at Bing, I will consider that a great outcome. I know some people will look down on her as she will probably be Val or Sal, but I don't care and more importantly, neither does she. Glad to see some people get it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:About 45 per cent of the comments on ‘DCUM colleges’ basically equate college quality with even the smallest and most inconsequential distinctions in the hallowed USNWR rankings.

About another 45 percent lament the high cost of college tuition.

Then you have threads like this where the same DCUM that gushes about (significantly) lower ranked schools like Auburn, South Carolina and Alabama will (almost universally) write off higher ranked and less expensive SUNY universities because of modern architecture, colder weather and no football - ‘it wasn’t for us.’

The answer to OP’s question is, groupthink, and second-rate intellects.

If you wanted to dive a little deeper, I’d guess it’s because many DCUM families see college fundamentally as a status marker more than a place to actually get an education, and the presence of some older buildings on the campuses of less distinguished ‘flagships’ allows DCUM - parents and kids alike - to pretend their chosen school is elite (‘educating segregationist leaders for decades’) and vaguely ‘ivy-adjacent’ which is a lot harder to pull off with the resolutely middle class, mass-education feel of most SUNY campuses.

+100 !!

+200

So well said. My high stats kid wants to be a doctor, we are in NY, and if she winds up at Bing, I will consider that a great outcome. I know some people will look down on her as she will probably be Val or Sal, but I don't care and more importantly, neither does she. Glad to see some people get it!

Good luck to your daughter, Binghamton is great. I wish my daughter had gotten into it. I know of several valedictorians and salutatorians who go there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I grew up near Binghamton, on the PA side. It is a really grim area.

I grew up near Binghamton, on the NY side. I agree. It was less grim back then (and a nice place to grow up), but I got the hell out of there when it was time for college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:About 45 per cent of the comments on ‘DCUM colleges’ basically equate college quality with even the smallest and most inconsequential distinctions in the hallowed USNWR rankings.

About another 45 percent lament the high cost of college tuition.

Then you have threads like this where the same DCUM that gushes about (significantly) lower ranked schools like Auburn, South Carolina and Alabama will (almost universally) write off higher ranked and less expensive SUNY universities because of modern architecture, colder weather and no football - ‘it wasn’t for us.’

The answer to OP’s question is, groupthink, and second-rate intellects.

If you wanted to dive a little deeper, I’d guess it’s because many DCUM families see college fundamentally as a status marker more than a place to actually get an education, and the presence of some older buildings on the campuses of less distinguished ‘flagships’ allows DCUM - parents and kids alike - to pretend their chosen school is elite (‘educating segregationist leaders for decades’) and vaguely ‘ivy-adjacent’ which is a lot harder to pull off with the resolutely middle class, mass-education feel of most SUNY campuses.

+100 !!

+200

So well said. My high stats kid wants to be a doctor, we are in NY, and if she winds up at Bing, I will consider that a great outcome. I know some people will look down on her as she will probably be Val or Sal, but I don't care and more importantly, neither does she. Glad to see some people get it!

Good luck to your daughter, Binghamton is great. I wish my daughter had gotten into it. I know of several valedictorians and salutatorians who go there.

Thank you for your kind words and good luck to your daughter, too!