<p>Binghamton is an absolute bargain. Inherently, it’s becoming extremely competitive. Perhaps a bit too competitive for its academic rigor.</p>
<p>Can you go to community college for two years and transfer? I know in California, a lot of the public colleges have guaranteed transfer agreements.</p>
<p>UCONN needing a 3.5 and a 2000 SAT?</p>
<p>Last year from my school 70 people applied and 49 got in with an average of 1718 on their SAT. Maybe for the honors you need a decently high GPA, but not for the regular school itself.</p>
<p>You can definitely go CC for two years and transfer to SUNY Binghamton or any of the other four year SUNYs.</p>
<p>New York’s community colleges are of very uneven quality. The quality of the students attending also varies quite a bit. Some CCs are very much 13th and 14th grade for remedial students. Others are of surprisingly good quality and have a decent core of motivated, bright students whose options were limited due to finances or personal situations that precluded going away to college. I don’t know much about the CCs in California, but I think they have a much better reputation than those in NYS.</p>
<p>While I agree that there WILL be an increase in competition this year, in my humble opinion we are making it out to be a bigger deal than it actually is. First of all, I know two kids who got into Binghamton with AVERAGE stats this past year. Second, Binghamton did have kids tripled and living in lounges for this semester so they DID over enroll. However, I find it hard to believe that there is/will be a 50% increase in applications. For Binghamton thats about 15,000 more applications from last year and last year was a record year. I think more around 20-30% is more realistic…if that. Don’t get me wrong, admissions standards will definitely be tougher but not significantly.</p>
<p>A New York Times article last week reported that applications to Bing are up 50 percent this year so far. Of course that doesn’t mean they’ll be up 50 percent for the entire admissions season. We’ll have to wait and see on that. But it is an indication that kids are applying earlier.</p>
<p>I’m applying to the UC system this year and yeah, it’s pretty bad. Not only are we the largest graduating class EVER (thanks to the baby boom), but just about everyone–including people more than qualified for Ivy League schools–is applying to public schools because of the lower tuitions, even if they’re only halfheartedly considering them.</p>
<p>I suggest that you simply apply to more safety schools. If you don’t get into your dream school, you can always transfer in four years when there’s less competition.</p>
<p>I don’t think you should go to a community college. It’s just two more years you have to pay for, and you might actually be selected against when you try to transfer. Different schools have different policies, but many prefer students fresh out of a four-year institution unless your grades at a CC are exceptional.</p>
<p>Sean, the NY times actually did an article on the increase at binghamton. So, yes, 50% is realistic.</p>
<p>There are other ways to think about this.</p>
<p>If Binghamton gets more competitive, that means that many of the people who otherwise would have been your classmates at Binghamton will go to other schools.</p>
<p>Maybe you’ll also be one of the people who ends up going to a different SUNY school.</p>
<p>If you wind up at, say, Brockport, is it a tragedy if you and your classmates who also end up at Brockport would have gone to Binghamton in another year?</p>
<p>I suspect it isn’t. Your college experience will depend more on the quality of more classmates than it will on the quality of your professors. And if the realities of this year’s economy means that a lot of bright students who would have attended private schools in other years go to public schools instead, that just means that you’re more likely to encounter other bright, highly motivated students at your public college this year, whichever school that proves to be. That’s not such a bad situation.</p>
<p>Then again, my H was accepted at Binghamton (in-state) and Penn during the recession in the late 70s/early 80s and it was cheaper for him to attend Penn. His dad was unemployed for over two years and had an EFC=0. Apply widely and well, and see how the money parses out. Having a good Plan B will be important this year.</p>
<p>how relevant do you guys think this phenomenon will be at unc chapel hill?</p>
<p>UNC-CH admits comparatively few OOS students (I think it’s something like 10% of the student body is OOS). It’s a huge bargain and an amazing school…IF you have the near-Ivy stats to get in OOS. Our DS, who was a NMF, 2210 SAT etc, was rejected seemingly without a second thought.</p>
<p>ouch. seriously? Was there anything that could have possibly been a reason? I have a 2270 and am currently a nms semifinalist…
that sounds uncomfortably close to home!</p>
<p>PSU main campus is probably going to get more competative this year (my school sends a ton of our top students there). Also, I’ve heard stuff about Temple getting slightly harder to get into because you really can’t beat the price.</p>
<p>I know what you mean. I applied to the following SUNYs: Binghamton, albany, oneonta, oswego, and new paltz. I probably wont get into binghamton but will get into all the others. I know there are alot of rich parents sending there kids to binghamton to save money they don’t need, which adds to the problem.</p>
<p>To Posts #33 & #34: UNC-Chapel Hill is difficult for out-of-state applicants, but even more difficult for o-o-s female applicants due to the imbalance of females (about 60% female) attending UNC.</p>
<p>I’m in the same boat at you coveryfire. I applied to Binghamton, Albany, Stony Brook, Buffalo, and Oneonta. With this increase in applications it’s unlikely I’ll get into Binghamton and now I’m really nervous that I won’t get into Stony Brook. </p>
<p>WE NEED THAT CHANGE NOW OBAMA</p>
<p>As someone who attends Binghamton I can tell you the number of applicants from my high school (im an out of stater) jumped from 4 for this past year to around 12 for this year, while this may be the case just from my school i know that at least 8 of these applicants were planning on going to top tier privates before the crisis, but now simply can’t afford them. Thats a far cry from last year when 3/4 applicants used it as a safety (ironically i wound up here and so did another member of that 3/4 safety group)
feel free to ask me any questions you have about BU as I’d be more than happy to respond.</p>
<p>I’ll honestly say that Binghamton is going to be ridiculous this year. I’m experiencing all of this first hand. For the most part, some of the tripples were detrippled early on in the semester, but we still do have tripples. And there will be more people coming in the spring semester who were originally waitlisted… where they are going to go is beyond me.</p>