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

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Anonymous wrote:I would agree with the prior poster. The campuses are old and not very pretty. So I think if you are looking from OOS they may not attract alot of attention. The education at Stony Brook is the best of all the schools.

I wouldn’t agree - Binghamton and Geneseo probably tie.

I think it’s because there is no flagship to bring in OOS kids.

Not a tie- Binghamton comes in first

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SUNY Bing graduate here. Yeah it's an ugly campus, but it didn't affect me. I wasn't looking for a pretty school, but the best SUNY I could get into and I went. It is a great mix of, yeah you still have frat parties and bars, but people are NOT there for a party school. Everyone really cares about academics. There is also the free library bus that goes back and forth to Cornell on the weekends.

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I'm from NY where SUNY schools are well known in NY state but not as much in the real world which is why it gets overlooked. I had checked out Suny Buffalo and a few other schools - in the winter, so I wound up going to school in Arizona, haha.

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Binghamton is a good school, and I am sure a number of the other SUNYs are too (Binghamton is the only one we considered for DD). However, we heard that it can be hard to get into classes that you need sometimes, requiring them to be taken over the summer or in a 5th year. For us, that offset potential cost savings of attending. Who knows if it ultimately would have proven to be true for DD. Other than that, I don't have anything bad to say about the school. The surrounding area seems a little dead, but I am sure college kids make their own fun.

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Anonymous wrote:Some kids from this area go to SUNY-Binghamton. And doesn't New Paltz have a good reputation for performing arts?

But overall the SUNY schools don't have very attractive campuses and are in cold locations in towns that aren't exactly thriving. Who'd want to live there if many of the kids at those schools are going home on the weekends? You could have a similar experience at UMBC or George Mason and the weather would be better.

This^^^
Most are unattractive campuses and located in the middle of nowhere with bad weather. There are many "better options" that are also affordable.

This. And another negative is that as a consequence of those things, the student body is overwhelmingly NY state residents. That's true of most public schools of course, but there is a big difference between a place like Pitt, that is about 35% out of state, vs a place like SUNY Binghamton, where 95% of students are from NY. And that percentage is even lower at other SUNY schools. No geographic diversity at all.

Though to be honest, NY state offers a tremendous amount of diversity: kids from upstate (rural/depressed), vs. New York City ('nuf said) vs. the suburbs (Westchester, Long Island). On one level, the state itself has a huge range of types of people/communities.

You can tell them apart by the different gang signs on their crack pipes. 😀

😳 You need to get out more. (Talk about stereotypes!)

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone been to Fredonia recently? It's on the list.

No but my kids piano teacher went there for piano performance and he is amazing.

And he has to give private lessons to make ends meet? Is that a desirable outcome?

He does it on the side. My bro has a PhD from MIT and has a side hustle. Who cares.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone been to Fredonia recently? It's on the list.

No but my kids piano teacher went there for piano performance and he is amazing.

And he has to give private lessons to make ends meet? Is that a desirable outcome?

He does it on the side. My bro has a PhD from MIT and has a side hustle. Who cares.

Right? So, do we not want piano teachers who went to college? Who is supposed to teach piano by your metrics? What a weird take.

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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?

Because they're in Stonybrook, Binghamton, Geneseo, Buffalo, and Oswego. Have you spent Sept-May in these places? They have three seasons: June, July, August, and winter.

This is the only right answer!

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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?

Because they're in Stonybrook, Binghamton, Geneseo, Buffalo, and Oswego. Have you spent Sept-May in these places? They have three seasons: June, July, August, and winter.

This is the only right answer!

Lol. Even the attempted joke is technically wrong as it lists four.

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Anonymous wrote:I would agree with the prior poster. The campuses are old and not very pretty. So I think if you are looking from OOS they may not attract alot of attention. The education at Stony Brook is the best of all the schools.

I wouldn’t agree - Binghamton and Geneseo probably tie.

I think it’s because there is no flagship to bring in OOS kids.

Not a tie- Binghamton comes in first

Geneseo is more a LAC while SUNY Bing is a university. Not a real comparison. But you can definitely get a Hamilton type experience at Geneseo. A lot of students transfer from Geneseo to Cornell too. The selectivity rates are someone deceptive as the schools have become self-selecting. Look at GPAs and SATs rather than percent accepted for a true picture.

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Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of niche programs. In addition to the ones already mentioned -
You have NYS College of Ceramics at Alfred
SUNY Downstate Medical

The niche programs are really great, for a student who knows what they want to study. Of course the programs at Cornell are at the top of those programs.

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Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of niche programs. In addition to the ones already mentioned -
You have NYS College of Ceramics at Alfred
SUNY Downstate Medical

The niche programs are really great, for a student who knows what they want to study. Of course the programs at Cornell are at the top of those programs.

Sorry, I forgot ESF, which is an appendage to Syracuse.

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I'd consider SUNY Buffalo for my kids and maybe Stony b/c we have relatives on Long Island. Binghampton is a great school but that town is so incredibly depressing.

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How about SUNY Maritime College?? Amazing for your STEM kid.

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Anonymous wrote:SUNY Bing graduate here. Yeah it's an ugly campus, but it didn't affect me. I wasn't looking for a pretty school, but the best SUNY I could get into and I went. It is a great mix of, yeah you still have frat parties and bars, but people are NOT there for a party school. Everyone really cares about academics. There is also the free library bus that goes back and forth to Cornell on the weekends.

We toured Bing and actually were quite impressed by the campus. It is, after all, a state school so did not expect ivy-covered walls. The academics seem solid