<p>After scoping out Hartwick, D noticed SUNY Oneonta and found that they have a Museum Studies five-year master’s program and, since she’d come in with credits as a sophomore, she’s intrigued.</p>
<p>zoosermom,
the museum studies program affiliated with SUNY Oneonta is one of the best in the country. seriously. (saying that as a 20-year museum professional working in NYS)</p>
<p>wow, zoosermom, that sounds great! We did a very rapid drive through at SUNY Oneonta, but really didn’t have time to get any sense of it. But a friend of mine whose opinion I value visited with her D and liked it.</p>
<p>Orchestramom, my new best friend!!! Really? If you ever have five minutes and would consider providing any insight to an aspiring museum professional, you’d have my gratitude. </p>
<p>It does sound great, GCmom, doesn’t it? Oneonta would be budget-friendly for sure and I think she’s pretty high in the applicant pool and it has EA so no stress. Thankfully, this child couldn’t care the least bit about prestige. A practical soul all the way.</p>
<p>gotta love a practical soul!</p>
<p>This almost sounds too good to be true. Excellent program, no debt. Wow.</p>
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<p>This was one of the areas I was very disappointed in. The dorms they showed us were in awful condition. They were dark, depressing, had stains of all sorts on the hall carpets, furniture in the rooms was dented and scratched (beyond normal wear and tear), doors and drawers out of alignment, hall walls had marks on them. They were the worst dorms of any of the colleges we looked at. Now maybe since it is 3 years since we have been there, they might have re-done them, but they were not good at the time.</p>
<p>The Greek culture is more prevalent than you would think. I, too, did the percentages but they keep getting a lot of bad press about frat incidents. Also, when you drive up to the college, they have a wall at the bottom of the hill that is covered with the spray paint symbols of the frats and sororities. Kind of ruins the landscape.</p>
<p>I am the friend GCMom was referring to who visited Oneonta and liked it a lot. We didn’t visit Hartwick. The Oneonta campus has its fair share of cement, but is more attractive to me than Binghamton or New Paltz. I especially liked the athletic center! My daughter didn’t love it but is being forced to apply to at least one SUNY for financial reasons. The biggest drawback to us is the lack of course choice in freshman and possibly sophomore year. There are so many requirements, the course load is completely dictated. Freshmen may get to select only one elective! Compared to other schools with much looser requirements, this seems high-school like in rigidity. But, I guess that’s the trade off for saving 40K. </p>
<p>If anyone would like to see photos, I have been blogging our college visits. Visit my blog at bswsoccermom.blogspot.com and click on February, 2009. Oneonta will appear on a drop down list, along with other schools that we saw on that trip.</p>