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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

You know there are several CEOs, many large law firm/Wall Street partners etc who are SUNY grads. I think they are mingling in those spaces just fine.[/quote]

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