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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is SUNY so unappealing to out of state applicants? This seems worth a journalist’s attention. It’s really striking how unpopular they are. [/quote]

I’m in California. My theory is that there are too many SUNY schools. From here, i have a hard time distinguishing them and I feel like I’m pretty up on college degrees. They don’t differentiate the way that the UCs and CSUs do. It isn’t that they are unappealing as such. It’s that there are 64 of them. That’s a lot of schools to sort out. 
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They do differentiate.  System set up originally with specialties.  Some of that still remains.  Purchase & New Paltz artsy.  Cortlandt sporty. Buffalo, Stony Brook, Binghamton and Albany the anchor universities.  
PP who claimed mediocre?  Incorrect.  Some of our finest medical doctors obtained their undergrads at Binghamton.  At that price tag, money well saved for years of grad school[/quote]

Californian here. They don’t really differentiate in any material way. [b]The fact that they have multiple “anchor” schools but no flagship shows that[/b]. It’s always been a bit bizarre to me that SUNY doesn’t have the equivalent of a Cal or UM.

I think the education is likely fine and I disagree with the mediocre comment, but I do think SUNY has a structural and organizational issue that weakens the perception of the entire system. [/quote]

Now that Berkley is floundering, the UC system has UCLA (which is about to get a whole lot richer), UCSB, and UCSD all either equal to Berkley or close. UCLA has a real chance to pull far ahead once their funding jumps after 2024 [/quote]

Berkeley isn’t floundering by any stretch of the imagination. That’s wishful thinking. UCLA is as popular as Cal or maybe more so, but having two exceptionally good schools as flagships is different than having six schools that people out of state couldn’t find on a map as “anchors.”

Nobody considers UCSB or UCSD a flagship, sorry. Great schools, but they aren’t flagships. [/quote]

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