Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I have spent my whole life living in NYC or the NJ suburbs of NYC so know the schools well. The rankings above are very accurate.
I just find there to be a certain provincialism and lack of sophistication among many of the SUNYs. I think this is why many kids from New York go out of state, often to state schools that might cost a lot more and not actually be any better. You will get this to some degree at any state school, particularly a larger one, but it just seems more prevalent at SUNYs.
Sorry - hard to explain. But IYKYK.
Very true. It's a class division (with some exceptions). That said, this seems to be true of all non-flagship or non Top 50 public schools and is not unique to SUNYs.
Agreed but at SUNY it is even applicable at the top schools while, like you said, in other states it is only generally at the non-flagships.
There's just a lack of a certain social refinement from SUNY grads. And a lack of awareness that they are lacking that social refinement. They aren't crass or anything like that. Just not people who would hold up well at a black tie event with a bunch of Ivy League types. Which creates a ceiling for them professionally. And don't get me wrong, that ceiling is fairly high. But there is a limit that you don't see from other top publics. I worked at a big bank in NYC. Lots of SUNY grads in mid-office making a very nice living, but very few making the big bucks.
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