<p>Italian Male, LI, economics and premed</p>
<p>kinda complicated....</p>
<p>Geneseo and Binghamton are super cheap</p>
<p>Got a nice scholarship from fordham and it is an ideal location for me.</p>
<p>Brandeis is pretty much full price but I would be on the tennis team</p>
<p>so which should I accept?</p>
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<p>Accept Fordham if you can afford it, Binghamton otherwise.</p>
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<p>Binghamton... public ivy... and cheap</p>
<p>Brandeis is the best of the group</p>
<p>It sounds like it's a money question. Academically for you, Brandeis trumps Fordham because B pays more attention to its undergraduates. While both have grad schools, I think Fordham's reputation rests on its grad school accomplishments while Brandeis tolerates nothing less than great teaching for its undergrads and puts its heart into them. Grad students do their own thing at B without taking away from the undergrad students. If someone from Fordham found differently, I'd humbly accept that correction.</p>
<p>You've got 2 great SUNY's there; Geneseo is the Honors SUNY,right? and many strong offerings at Binghamton. So you can be proud of either. Still, my experience is that private trumps public for entree into grad school IF your family can afford private and IF you dedicate yourself to making good grades at the private. (People on CC often seem to agree: get good grades at the public and save your $ for grad school, but they're assuming perhaps kids not working hard at the private schools or something..or that it's a cinch to make high grades at the public? I'm not so sure. Just don't go to a private school, make blah grades and then expect the private school's name will torpedo you into grad school! It won't!)</p>
<p>Fordham and NYC...aaah. But the Brandeis students knock about Boston every weekend together, and maybe that's all the time you'd have anyway to have city fun. They take the shuttle bus in together to Boston...a LOT. How does that affect your view of Fordham = "perfect location"? I mean, you'll be pretty busy just studying, so I'm not sure how much you can do in the Big Apple other than on weekends, anyway? Maybe you by "perfect location" you meant that Fordham is close (or FAR ;) )from family...</p>
<p>Geneseo and Binghamton both are in towns that will not keep your interest the way NYC or Boston will, and that's for sure!</p>
<p>If you were in a joking mood (probably not this week!), I'd just say, "Go to Fordham and join a tennis club..." so it'd equate with Brandeis.</p>
<p>If it were my kid, and if money were NO OBSTACLE, I'd say Brandeis, but Fordham a close second. If I had to rank with money factored in somewhat (i.e., your folks are price-sensitive but can stretch to afford any of these, with your contribution of summer jobs, etc..) then I'd rank this way: Brandeis, Geneseo, Fordham, Bing.</p>
<p>Lucky you! Good choices all.</p>
<p>Talk with your family more about the meaning of the financial difference to you and them.</p>
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Geneseo is the Honors SUNY,right?
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<p>there is no suny honors college.</p>