<p>Last week I asked my GC about SUNY CNSE, I was told. Extremely selective, only accept 40 applicants a year. Need IVY stats to get in. Small classes with lots of interaction with professors. On site internships and research. Well it almost sounds too good to be true. </p>
<p>The only downside I can see to the school is it only offers two nanotechnolog programs, but SUNY Albany is nearby. What else am I missing? This place looks amazing, is it? Why isn't this school better known (all I could find is it's number 1 ranking in Nano engineering ahead of Cornell, MIT and Cal-Tech!). </p>
<p>I Might as well buy a lottery ticket, ahem, I mean apply. Just wondering what the real story is?</p>
<p>Older son is a graduate student at CNSE. The undergraduate program is newer so it isn’t as well known as the ivies. There first undergrad class just graduated in 2013. SUNY Albany is part of the same campus but you will need to take a shuttle bus to get over there. Be aware that CNSE and UAlbany will be separating into 2 different institutions in the next few years. My only concern would be that by majoring in nano so early in your studies you would be limiting your options should you change your mind and find out that nanoscience and nanoengineering aren’t for you and you would need to transfer to another school. Take a tour and visit both campuses. Ask what are the options for transferring to a UA major if you aren’t happy at CNSE.
CNSE does have world class facilities and they are getting large research grants often beating out MIT, Cornell, etc. because they do have the cutting edge equipment on site. Son is TA fora lab class with 2 profs and 2 TAs for 14 undergrads so you will be in small classes which are taught by the professors.</p>
JUST WONDERING…
What is your son’s stats? (GPA, SAT, ACT, etc. all that good stuff!)