<p>I've read a lot of which is the better SUNY school but I cant seem to see any facts or anything on paper to judge which is the better school</p>
<p>All I read on here is just people arguing back and forth</p>
<p>So does anyone have any specific facts to back up which school is the overall better school?</p>
<p>Geneseo = Amherst
Binghamton = Harvard</p>
<p>Both are prestigious but one is more known than the other. Geneseo is the LAC of the SUNYs and Bing is their premiere institution. I guess it just depends on your preferences.</p>
<p>Geno is supposed to be good for education. Binghamton has a rep for people going for a year or two and transferring.</p>
<p>Binghmaton is a university center.
Geneseo is a liberal arts college.
When we attended an info session at Geneseo, someone asked the admissions rep to compare the two - she must have gotten that question a lot since they are the two most selective SUNY's - but her response was that she didn't really understand why people kept asking that -- because they were fundamentally different types of schools - ie university vs.lac.</p>
<p>Geneseo is about 45 minutes outside of Rochester which is a bigger city than Binghamton -- but I doubt students regularly get there. Geneseo itself is fairly "middle of no where." Binhamton is actually in Vestal, a suburb of Binghamton - but Binghamton is an easy bus ride away.</p>
<p>They're very different - go and look and compare the programs you are interested in.</p>
<p>Geneseo is slightly more selective than Binghamton but they are nearly the same in that regard. Binghamton has more emphasis of graduate students and programs.</p>
<p>Anyone know anything about the campus life?</p>
<p>I hear that Binghamton is not a veryfun campus to live at and many people leave soon</p>
<p>Binghamton > Geneseo by farrrrrr.</p>
<p>^ Its true. Binghamton is quite boring. Well I live in NYC so maybe thats why. But really. its boring.</p>
<p>I don't know much about either but I know that most of the top 10% of my school that wants to stay in-state is going, or hopes to go, to Geneseo. Binghamton doesn't have that great a reputation around here (Central New York) but a lot depends on what you want.</p>
<p>I sort of have to wonder if they've ever spent a significant amount of time at Geneseo, then, though. I was there for a HOBY conference last spring, and wow-- the most miserable place I've ever been, I think. I know it's a good education, but I cannot imagine the sheer hellishness of living at Geneseo for four years. The dorms are incredibly awful, the town is quite possibly as boring as my own (which is impressive-- my own doesn't even have a stoplight), and there is absolutely nothing nearby, from what I could tell anyway. Keep the setting in mind when you make your choice: could you actually see yourself living there happily? Binghamton may not be renowned socially either, but on the very basis of population there must be more going on.</p>
<p>Another SUNY to consider, if you're looking for a university setting and, perhaps, a city (which I don't know if you are): Stony Brook. While not actually in a city, is a quick ride away from NYC, and is a very good school by all means. Stony Brook, for science anyway, is also pretty well connected-- there's a national research lab nearby students can do work in, if they are talented and connected enough to do so. Also, for women pursuing science, math, and/or engineering, there's a pretty sweet scholarship deal going on.</p>
<p>TheEnlightenedFool - which HS from cny are you from? I'm from just north of Syracuse. The 'top' people at my HS also chose geneseo over binghamton. Though i graduated the year before last, i can name about three times as many people that went to geneseo over binghamton. Weird.</p>
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<p>Stony Brook is approximately a 2 hour train ride from Manhattan. As for driving - I would say AT LEAST an hour and a half and that's only if the traffic fairies are smiling on you (not something that is common on Lond Island) - and once you get to Manhattan it will be a nightmare trying to find some where to put the car!</p>
<p>Stony Brook is a fine school and may have alot to offer students for whom it is a fit - but no one should go there thinking NYC will be a regular part of their lives while they are there.</p>
<p>I personally like Geneseo a lot more than Binghamton and applied their ED. Rochester is a half hour away and there are shuttlebusses there every weekend.</p>
<p>If youre looking for Education geneseo is good but oswego/oneonta may be better. Geneseo really focuses on the hard sciences/psych/history.
Like already mentioned, it is a LAC. Binghamton is a very different school, bing has like double the population, totally dead town and is a university with grad students etc.</p>
<p>I personally also like the fact that Im not going to school (hopefully) with like 75% Jewish, Long Island kids. I'm Jewish myself and go to a Jewish private HS on Long Island, and the LI mentality drives me nuts sometimes.</p>
<p>HAHAHA
I totally get you with the "LI Mentality"
I wanna get away from it too.</p>
<p>I've never visited Geneseo, but I really liked Bing. I liked that it was big, and while the surrounding areas were somewhat pathetic, kids were more or less okay with it. I also liked the setup of College in the Woods, and when I went there the students just seemed comfortable and happy. A good friend of mine just graduated from Bing and he had many stories about all sorts of weird debauchery going on in the woods-- Bing seemed like it was enough removed from reality for me, but it still had Wendy's and Taco Bell nearby.</p>