<p>I'm applying to SUNY Geneseo and I had a few questions about the school:
1) On the application Geneseo asks you to list what other schools you are applying to. Why do they ask this? I'm applying for many Ivy league and top 20 universities, because my stats are within range. Will this hurt my chances for SUNY Geneseo (since they might reject me because they think I won't accept their admissions offer)?<br>
2) I'm interested in pursuing law/business in the future. How are Geneseo's undegrad business/economics/political science programs overall? Does Geneseo have good law school placement?
3) I know that Geneseo is a really good school, and I've heard that academics are very rigorous there? What programs are the most competitive/difficult at Geneseo? Are there honors college/accelerated programs that (considering my stats) I would have a good shot at?
-here's a short list of my stats (just numbers not ECs/awards)
-GPA:94 uw (NY Public HS) SAT I:2280 (cr.m.w:710/770/800)
-SATIIs:mathII/bio/us:760/730/730
taking ACT in fall </p>
<p>1) I wouldn’t worry about listing the colleges you are applying to. I would think Geneseo uses this information to track the schools they are competing with for students.<br>
You may or may not be surprised at some of the schools students are turning down for Geneseo…take a look at the Class of 2014 facebook page “I chose Geneseo over…”</p>
<p>3) You will definitely study at Geneseo but I didn’t mind that. Probably the most challenging and competitive programs are the Sciences. The Edgar Fellows program is Geneseo’s honors program. I believe 30 freshman enter the program each year. You would be invited to apply to the program. Selection criteria…[Selection</a> to the Edgar Fellows Program | SUNY Geneseo](<a href=“http://www.geneseo.edu/edgarfellows/selection]Selection”>Election to the Edgar Fellows Program | SUNY Geneseo)</p>
<p>Geneseograd, you might want to check out the “parents should check out this book” thread, post #38 (I think). This deserves a better response than I was able to give :(</p>
<p>Your chances aren’t reduced, you’ll be fine - geneseo doesn’t do yield protection.
I had almost identical stats to you, except slightly higher sat ii scores and slightly lower gpa. I didn’t get into the honors program, but I kind of sent my application in a month late (like two weeks before decisions lol). I’m from NYC, too.
I ended up turning down cornell and brown for geneseo because I didn’t get into the school I really wanted to go to (columbia), since I can go to columbia with geneseo’s 3/2 engineering program.
Not really regretting my decision, but then again, I didn’t like cornell or brown much.
While I’ve heard that classes in geneseo can be extremely hard (especially bio and other science courses), there’s also the fact that it overhypes itself. It lists completely arbitrary “peer institutions” that are on completely different levels (to list two, cornell is on a much higher level and rit is on a much lower level).
I’ve heard good things from all the students I met about business and economics and awful things about poli sci, but maybe that’s just me.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the responses!
A lot of SUNY honors programs require that you have a 95 gpa and a 1350 SAT. I have a 94.4ish GPA and an SAT that is way above that. Should I still apply? How can they have GPA requirements when GPA can be so subjective…</p>
<p>You should because they might calculate the gpa differently than you or your school did - eg, only using the main 5 courses, english, history, math, science, foreign language, with no weighting, etc. You should apply and let them sort it out. If they don’t find you to have the required gpa, don’t expect them to bend, however. It’s the government, they don’t bend well.</p>
<p>You don’t apply to the honors program, you’re automatically considered when you send in an application to the school.
If you have the required stats, they send you an “invitation”, where you submit an essay and they pick the 30 students from there.
A lot of people that got invited didn’t have the required gpa, it’s not something I think they take too seriously if you have the sat scores needed.</p>