Help! In a very unusual situation.

MYOS is correct.

@educateddarcy I do not mean to rag on Binghamton, it is a good school. My parents think of it as it was in the 1980s when the top students went there and it was considered a real public ivy and the state flagship. Now New York really does not have a state flagship, different programs for different things, such as Macauley, Baruch etc. Albany used to be second only to Bi and is not anymore. Due to the new Stem scholarship which will make these schools tuition free I think they will go up in profile.

When I started this process a year ago my parents said I could go to Bi or any of the other SUNYs or if I got into a significantly better school (however that is defined, top 30ish I guess) I could go there. I suppose if I had decided to apply to a peer of Binghamton and gotten money to make it affordable they would have been ok. I was discouraged from applying to the other state flagships (PennS, Maryland, Delaware) other than Michigan because my parents did not see the point of OOS. So the stradegy was that I would get in early to Bi and then just apply to very competitive schools. Fortunately it worked but my parents had no idea until I started hanging out here that Binghamton was in the lower 25 of US News Top 100 and that PennS, Maryland were much higher ranked. I do not think that was true when they went to college although both went to private schools and did early something so only applied to that one school anyway so perhaps that was a false impression. A lot of my friend’s very successful parents went to Binghamton and Albany and lots of great kids still go there. Several of my friends picked it over top 20 colleges or had trouble deciding. It still has a great reputation in the suburbs. As for the OP, it is a good place and worth considering