SUNY Binghamton?

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thank you everyone for your responses. I appreciate it and will consider all of them.

If you were in NYS, are there any other northeastern public universities you'd consider as a safety for a high stats student? That maybe offer merit aid? UConn? UMass? (She does like cold weather, but Binghamton may be too dreary. I think we will visit in the dead winter!) Thanks for any advice you have!

For a safety school, maybe SUNY New Paltz? It's not as highly rated for academics as Binghamton, but there is lots to like otherwise. My friend's son also liked UMass Amherst.

What about LACs like Trinity, Ithaca college, Connecticut college? They would give merit aid to a high stats student.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thank you everyone for your responses. I appreciate it and will consider all of them.

If you were in NYS, are there any other northeastern public universities you'd consider as a safety for a high stats student? That maybe offer merit aid? UConn? UMass? (She does like cold weather, but Binghamton may be too dreary. I think we will visit in the dead winter!) Thanks for any advice you have!

For a safety school, maybe SUNY New Paltz? It's not as highly rated for academics as Binghamton, but there is lots to like otherwise. My friend's son also liked UMass Amherst.

What about LACs like Trinity, Ithaca college, Connecticut college? They would give merit aid to a high stats student.

This is great. Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My older sister went - graduated in 95 or '96? They made fun of townies who were practically rednecks If you can be such a thing in upstate NY. All her friends left immediately upon graduation - there's no such thing as staying there afterwards.

What an odd post. Did your sister not say anything about the academics and campus life?

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Anonymous wrote:My older sister went - graduated in 95 or '96? They made fun of townies who were practically rednecks If you can be such a thing in upstate NY. All her friends left immediately upon graduation - there's no such thing as staying there afterwards.

What an odd post. Did your sister not say anything about the academics and campus life?

In fairness to pp, my brother is a 91 Binghamton grad and has sounded the same tone regarding the locals.

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In the early 90's Geneseo was considered to be very decent but Binhamton was a little better. I heard that the locals and the area at Geneseo was similar to Binghamton. I have toured the Suny Buaffalo campus and found that to be equally depressing though the area has more culture. Grey buildings with tunnels between buildings so you don't have to go outside in the winter. Anyways, I wound up at a warm weather school so your mileage may vary. [

quote=Anonymous]Geneseo being a top SUNY school is news to me. Back in the late 80's the only 4 NY state schools really smart kids even considered were Binghamton, Albany, Stony Brook, or Buffalo. The rest were all pretty mediocre. Must have made a lot of progress to be the "Harvard of SUNY".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd suggest looking into University of Buffalo if your DC is interested in a SUNY. Buffalo has a lot more going on than Binghamton and the academics are on par with those of Binghamton. Binghamton's campus is just... so depressing. Truly one of the ugliest schools I've ever seen. I grew up in the Southern Tier... you don't get the lake effect snow, but it is a rarity to see the sun from November - March.

And just a note on Geneseo: it is considered the "Harvard of the SUNY system" and very difficult to get into, but by and large it is a teachers college. If your DC wants to be something other than a teacher, I'd look elsewhere. The people who I know that went to Geneseo had bright high school careers and then fizzled out in college. Post college they have struggled and ended up in crappy jobs (not careers). Friends who went there to become teachers/ school administrators have done very well, though.

WTH?? You absolutely just made that up.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd suggest looking into University of Buffalo if your DC is interested in a SUNY. Buffalo has a lot more going on than Binghamton and the academics are on par with those of Binghamton. Binghamton's campus is just... so depressing. Truly one of the ugliest schools I've ever seen. I grew up in the Southern Tier... you don't get the lake effect snow, but it is a rarity to see the sun from November - March.

And just a note on Geneseo: it is considered the "Harvard of the SUNY system" and very difficult to get into, but by and large it is a teachers college. If your DC wants to be something other than a teacher, I'd look elsewhere. The people who I know that went to Geneseo had bright high school careers and then fizzled out in college. Post college they have struggled and ended up in crappy jobs (not careers). Friends who went there to become teachers/ school administrators have done very well, though.

WTH?? You absolutely just made that up.

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Anonymous wrote:Geneseo has average SAT scores between 1120-1310, and ACT scores between 23-28. Harvard it ain't!

Not everything has to be Harvard.

Twit.

PP poster here. That was not my point. My point was that is is not close to being the Harvard of SUNY with those stats. I'm a grad of a SUNY school, by the way.

Twit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd suggest looking into University of Buffalo if your DC is interested in a SUNY. Buffalo has a lot more going on than Binghamton and the academics are on par with those of Binghamton. Binghamton's campus is just... so depressing. Truly one of the ugliest schools I've ever seen. I grew up in the Southern Tier... you don't get the lake effect snow, but it is a rarity to see the sun from November - March.

And just a note on Geneseo: it is considered the "Harvard of the SUNY system" and very difficult to get into, but by and large it is a teachers college. If your DC wants to be something other than a teacher, I'd look elsewhere. The people who I know that went to Geneseo had bright high school careers and then fizzled out in college. Post college they have struggled and ended up in crappy jobs (not careers). Friends who went there to become teachers/ school administrators have done very well, though.

WTH?? You absolutely just made that up.

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+1 LOL

I'm the PP who wrote it, and I absolutely did NOT make it up. If you do a a simple google search you'll find plenty of websites that use the same phrase. More to the point: I disagree with the reference. In the late nineties/ early aughts it was difficult to get into relative to other SUNYs (particularly if you were a female. there were more female applicants. again, teachers college like many of the SUNY colleges. SUNY university centers are different.). People on this board are so literal minded, it blows me away.

[Anonymous]

I’m a SUNY Albany grad. I think the SUNY system is good. As with all colleges, you get out what you put in! Binghamton was considered better than Albany when I went.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd suggest looking into University of Buffalo if your DC is interested in a SUNY. Buffalo has a lot more going on than Binghamton and the academics are on par with those of Binghamton. Binghamton's campus is just... so depressing. Truly one of the ugliest schools I've ever seen. I grew up in the Southern Tier... you don't get the lake effect snow, but it is a rarity to see the sun from November - March.

And just a note on Geneseo: it is considered the "Harvard of the SUNY system" and very difficult to get into, but by and large it is a teachers college. If your DC wants to be something other than a teacher, I'd look elsewhere. The people who I know that went to Geneseo had bright high school careers and then fizzled out in college. Post college they have struggled and ended up in crappy jobs (not careers). Friends who went there to become teachers/ school administrators have done very well, though.

WTH?? You absolutely just made that up.

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+1 LOL

I'm the PP who wrote it, and I absolutely did NOT make it up. If you do a a simple google search you'll find plenty of websites that use the same phrase. More to the point: I disagree with the reference. In the late nineties/ early aughts it was difficult to get into relative to other SUNYs (particularly if you were a female. there were more female applicants. again, teachers college like many of the SUNY colleges. SUNY university centers are different.). People on this board are so literal minded, it blows me away.

Just because you found it on the google doesn't make it true. If fact is literalness, then ok, fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My older sister went - graduated in 95 or '96? They made fun of townies who were practically rednecks If you can be such a thing in upstate NY. All her friends left immediately upon graduation - there's no such thing as staying there afterwards.

What an odd post. Did your sister not say anything about the academics and campus life?

In fairness to pp, my brother is a 91 Binghamton grad and has sounded the same tone regarding the locals.

Colgate grad who can also attest that rednecks are very much a thing in this part of New York (not upstate btw.) it’s basically the northernmost edge of Appalachia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DH went there. Strong academics, very unattractive campus in a depressed part of your upstate NY. Lots of bad weather from lake-effect in winter.

Agree with most of this, but um, no lake effect weather/snow in Central NY. Look at a map. Binghamton is over a 100 miles from Lake Ontario.

Rochester and Buffalo get lake effect snow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DH went there. Strong academics, very unattractive campus in a depressed part of your upstate NY. Lots of bad weather from lake-effect in winter.

Agree with most of this, but um, no lake effect weather/snow in Central NY. Look at a map. Binghamton is over a 100 miles from Lake Ontario.

Rochester and Buffalo get lake effect snow.

It's more considered Southern Tier even. Not Central NY. (Same PP writing again)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd suggest looking into University of Buffalo if your DC is interested in a SUNY. Buffalo has a lot more going on than Binghamton and the academics are on par with those of Binghamton. Binghamton's campus is just... so depressing. Truly one of the ugliest schools I've ever seen. I grew up in the Southern Tier... you don't get the lake effect snow, but it is a rarity to see the sun from November - March.

And just a note on Geneseo: it is considered the "Harvard of the SUNY system" and very difficult to get into, but by and large it is a teachers college. If your DC wants to be something other than a teacher, I'd look elsewhere. The people who I know that went to Geneseo had bright high school careers and then fizzled out in college. Post college they have struggled and ended up in crappy jobs (not careers). Friends who went there to become teachers/ school administrators have done very well, though.

WTH?? You absolutely just made that up.

It made me laugh quite hard though.

I grew up in Rochester NY. Tons of kids go to Geneseo. Good students but large numbers of people. It is not "very difficult to get into".

What's difficult to get into, but is NOT the Harvard of the SUNY system either, are the land grant colleges in Cornell.