<p>Hey everyone. I'm applying Early Decision Cornell this Fall, but I need some safeties. My safeties include some SUNY's , but i need to narrow them down from 4 to 2.</p>
<p>So out of these 4 SUNY's, which are the best (considering im doing ED Cornell, 94 avg, etc etc)?</p>
<p>1- SUNY Bing
2- SUNY Buffalo
3- SUNY Stony Brook
4- SUNY Geneseo (I've heard this is the "best" SUNY, but im not sure)</p>
<p>Binghamton & Geneseo.. you can remove the other ones. :)</p>
<p>Bing and Stony are the best Uni Centers, Geneseo is the best college.</p>
<p>I would rank them:
1. Bing
2. Geneseo
3. Stony Brook
4. Buffalo</p>
<p>yea i agree geneseo or bing</p>
<p>geneseo is the best "school" ranking wise. But it is nowhere, and small. Bing would be the next choice. it has a large campus. Everyone who goes there seems to love it. Can't beat the price. Best value for the Dollar!!</p>
<p>Well the classic list I've seen handed down is usually
1. Geneseo
2. Binghamton
3. Stony Brook</p>
<p>Now I'm currently and have been taking classes at stony brook for quite some time. I've also been in contact with Geneseoers and Binghamtoners. </p>
<p>First it depends what you want to do. Stony Brook is the best for research and science. I've been going to math club there where they have their professors occasionally lecture on research they're doing, and you often find them working with the likes of people at MIT, Caltech, etc. </p>
<p>If you're going for somethign more artsy, Geneseo is probably your best one.</p>
<p>Binghamton has a bit of both.</p>
<p>As for money, they all offer pretty much the same deal.</p>
<p>As for location, Geneseo I hear is nice, but its in nowheresville. You'll find partys there for that reason. (You're probably aware, but there is usually an inverse relationship between activities around a college, and drinking there. Of course you never have to drink there if you want to, but just be aware...)
Geneseo is like 7 hours from everywhere. </p>
<p>Binghamton is still quite a few hours away from anywhere. Nothing you could do outside of town on a daily basis. But its only a few hours from NYC. However its still a fairly small town itself. </p>
<p>Stony Brook has my favorite location, if you're into its sort of thing. Its on Long Island, and is the closest to the city. Many NYCers commute to Stony Brook for the day and then take the train back, which is about a 30 minute drive. The campus is huge, very city like. You'll find lots of things to do on and off campus. </p>
<p>As for population, Geneseo and Binghamton are fairly similar, Geneseo being smaller. Stony Brook by far is the largest (in this trio, perhaps only buffalo compares). It sports an easy 24,000 undergrads alone. Some people don't like this, and I understand that. Its a different method of socializing I find, a little more interesting. Don't be embarrassed if you don't know anybody, because no one does really. Thats actually why its easier to make friends. Just start a random conversation with someone before class. I always find they were just as anxious to have a conversation as I was, and was just looking for the ice breaker. </p>
<p>I can't speak on this about Geneseo and Binghamton, but the majority of the faculty at Stony Brook is awesome.</p>
<p>Hope this helps. If you asked me, someone with a mathematics major, I would list the Sunys in this order:</p>
<ol>
<li>Stony Brook</li>
<li>Binghamton</li>
<li>Geneseo</li>
</ol>
<p>Binghamton is the best SUNY.
Geneseo is also very respectable. </p>
<p>thats pretty much it.</p>
<p>I don't know why people would put Geneseo on top of Bing.</p>
<p>I've a New Yorker, I live on Long Island and I am near Bing summers and I have had a lot of experience with SUNY's (a lot of my friends go there), and I can tell you Bing is probably the best one. (Although Stony is actually a better choice for math and comp sci - especially the honors program). Bing is the hardest to get into and has the brightest students.</p>
<p>My list would have bing on top. I'm kind of scared of the male:female ratio at geneseo, even if academically I think it outshines the other SUNY's. My personal list, would have Stony Brook on top though because it has great oppurtunities for the sciences.</p>
<p>Check out this similar thread on the same topic.</p>
<p>From the other thread:
The fault is not with the students, but with the disasterous state university system of New York which consistently has to fight to get funds -- and which is reflected in its lack of any kind of spirit or school pride, especially any notable athletic teams.
That is absolutely correct. The politicians in Albany have not been doing a very good job in the last 15 years or so and one of the things they're worst at is education. SUNY schools are ignored and severely underfunded and have to fight with the pols just to stop them from jacking tuition.</p>
<p>None of the SUNY's can really qualifiy as a UC, UNC, UVA, or UMich where people really want to go there. The fact is, most SUNY's are safety schools. Bing is a safety school for NY (mostly NYC and LI) students who applied to top notch schools (think Ivy's and top LAC's) and didn't make it. They spend a lot of their time trying to transfer into the schools they failed to make, so in that way it is depressing as they don't like Bing, they're just there until they can get something better.</p>
<p>I think the school of choice will depend on your major and there is plenty of advice for you above, Can a Cornell State school be a safety if you don't get accepted at the college you apply early decision to.</p>
<p>New York Public colleges do not have the respect other public universitys have. You might want to consider a small LAC with decent financial aid. It could end up cheaper than either Bing or Geneseo. You might do some research regarding individual departments at the state colleges.</p>
<p>The sad thing is I remember when Rockerfeller's dream for a great public University system in New York was on its way to being achieved. The Administration at Albany should be canned.</p>
<p>Wow. Great set of opinions. Out of this, I can deduce that Buffalo should be eliminated. Now, i am looking for safety schools: around 2 or 3. </p>
<p>My other safety schools that im considering are:
-Syracuse University
-University of Pittsburgh</p>
<p>By the way, how is a Cornell state school a safety: for example, i will apply to the CALS which is a Cornell state funded school, since its cheaper and it has basically the same majors offered for science as the CAS. If i have to, then i would transfer when i get there. But either way, how is CALS a safety for anyone. Cornell is not a safety for anyone, state school or not. That my opinion.</p>
<p>Cornell is no safety school, I was thinking about alternative match schools. If not Ag and life Sciences then maybe the school of human ecology type of thing. When I went to Cornell, I didn't apply any place else, I would rather have been a gardener then to have gone someplace else. </p>
<p>I encourage you to take a road trip and visit Syracuse and other schools (Union in Schenectady?) to see if you like them, feel right there and think that the students you meet would comfortable to you as friends. Good luck.</p>
<p>
The sad thing is I remember when Rockerfeller's dream for a great public University system in New York was on its way to being achieved. The Administration at Albany should be canned.
I just wish the rest of NY could realize that!</p>
<p>Well, I dont plan to go to SUNY anyway, even if i dont get into Cornell. SUNY would be the last place i would go, since University of Rochester, NYU, and Boston University are also on my list of schools to apply to.</p>
<p>If your thinking safety, you should look at schools that are not top-notch overall but specialize - and are considered higher than the school's overall statcher - in the thing that you want to do/study. If you're thinking of going Pre-Med or any sciences, Stony Brook would be the best bet. My uncle and older brother, both respected and well-established NY doctors, even went to the extent of taking me all the way to the campus just to convince me to apply safety there, because they know that pre-med students going into med school from stony brook are somewhat well-respected.</p>
<p>Dima, California is walking along a seriously similar path for their undergraduate university experience. The UCs are better known for their graduate research now than for their undergraduate offerings. Public Universities should be revered not austered! They continue to underfund education here so people can afford to put dvd players in the back of their SUVs.</p>
<p>That's quite upsetting, Mr. B. The UC's have for a long time been considered the best public college system in the country and I know many people choosing between UCB and Ivy League schools like Columbia, although that may partially be caused by a need to get out of NY, it would be a sad day if they fall anywhere close to the level of SUNY's.</p>
<p>how hard is it to get into binghamton? i've heard the stats, but what are the odds?</p>