<p>Don’t think her grades and test scores would get her into Elon. It has become a “hot” school and admission has been getting tougher since around 2006-2007.</p>
<p>nyc, I sent a PM to you.</p>
<p>“D’s scores/grades are probably too low for merit $$ (2.9 gpa, no honors/APs at her school; CR/M 970, writing 550)” - Consider adding a Community College option to your list. The credits should be transferable to SUNY colleges later. Or… if your D turns out to be a stronger student in the college setting, she may have other transfer options too.</p>
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<p>NOOOOO… the school is called Boise State University, not “University of Idaho Boise.” We University of Idaho alumni want nothing to do with BSU. :)</p>
<p>Not to jump all over you, but that’s like calling Purdue “Indiana University West Lafayette” or renaming Michigan State to “University of Michigan East Lansing.” :)</p>
<p>[University</a> of Idaho Boise](<a href=“http://www.uidaho.edu/boise]University”>University of Idaho Boise)</p>
<p>Just quoting the internet. Who knows, maybe it’s a vast conspiracy…</p>
<p>Oh, that - it’s a satellite facility for professional programs. The full-service public university in Boise is [Boise</a> State University](<a href=“http://www.boisestate.edu%5DBoise”>http://www.boisestate.edu).</p>
<p>University of Montana and Montana State have relatively low OOS tuition and are very welcoming to OOS students in the way of $$. Both schools have a lot of OOS students. On move-in day we saw license plates from as far away as Alaska and Rhode Island. And while Missoula or Bozeman can’t be described as urban, neither is car dependent: bikes rule. It’s a great place for outdoorsy types, with the mountains/boarding/skiing/mtn biking practically in the back yard. Just beware that both of these schools, like Montana and the surrounding states, are pretty white.</p>
<p>She really might like University of Wisconsin Eau Claire. It is a good school, very reasonably priced, and in a bit of a city (about 64,000 people). Two of my young relatives went there recently and liked it very much. </p>
<p>I often put in plugs for Bemidji State and University of Minnesota Morris but with 12,000 and 6,000 people respectively, they don’t sound like what you are looking for.</p>
<p>I may be stating the obvious, but what about HBCUs? Maybe not Spelman or Howard, but some of the others (Delaware State, was the first that came to mind).</p>
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<p>Just raising my head here in Buffalo to say that the suburban Amherst campus where freshmen live is huge. The other south campus is inner-city. A shuttle bus runs between campuses. SUNY students from the Amherst campus socialize right there on campus but on weekends also head down to urban Buffalo around Chippewa Street with several other urban colleges/unis here that include Buff State (the state teacher’s college), Canisius, Medaille and a few other small downtown colleges. Linking the suburb to downtown areas there are several public transit options run by university and city. </p>
<p>As NY’s 2nd largest city, while suffering from poverty and demographic loss, the City of Buffalo has outstanding cultural institutions frequented by area residents and students (Albright Knox Art Gallery, Kleinhans Music Hall, Frank Lloyd Wright homes, repertory theaters from several ethnic groups (Irish, Jewish, African-American) just to name a few. The entire suburb of Amherst, NY is toney, attractive and sophisticated-looking. It sits on the border with the City of Buffalo which has miles of neighborhoods very run-down and impoverished until you get to the core central downtown neighborhoods. Those are beautiful and dynamic, with happier night-life and architectural beauty. University students around here head for the core downtown cafes, restaurants and cultural institutions…and ignore the rest of poor Buffalo, it seems. </p>
<p>Amherst NY year-after-year gets voted around #1 “Safest Community in America” among top 25. Crime-free surrounding community is a very relaxing attribute for students, anywhere. Amherst is just so…sane. Niagara Falls is gorgeous. </p>
<p>With advance notice of flight dates, commuter flights from all 3 NYC airports to Buffalo International Airport are readily found. With more than 2 weeks notice, she can fly roundtrip nonstop for around $125 these days. If she hates to fly, there’s now also the Megabus and Amtrak train options for l0-hour ground travel between NYC and Buf. All those options require ground transpo following to get onto the actual Amherst campus. I think a lot of students just taxi those 15 minutes which adds another $25 or so to end their journey.</p>
<p>I don’t know as much about Albany but I think her life at SUNY/Buffalo would feel suburban-to-urban, never rural. Quite different from SUNY’s at Oneonta, Geneseo, Bing, and so forth. The URM representation among residents in the City of Buffalo is substantial. On campus, it’s mostly suburban/urban and international in student origins. There’s also a showing of rural kids from upstate Western NY, but given the massive size of SUNY/Buffalo, they are far outnumbered by the rest of the populations. She’d not feel at all solo as URM at SUNY Buffalo.</p>
<p>Best wishes.</p>
<p>How about SUNY Old Westbury. If the school provides transport to LIRR, the trip into Manhattan is less than half an hour. It’s a lovely campus. If you look on its website, you will see that it is one of the few SUNYs that even offers merit money.</p>
<p>from a NY mom whose d swore she would never go to a SUNY- we looked at several OOS publics where the price was not totally outrageous. (d graduated college 2010 so the prices probably went up considerably since the time we looked).<br>
Temple U - outside Philadelphia
Virginia Commonwealth - outside Richmond
George Mason (outside dc)
Towson (near Baltimore)</p>
<p>when all was said and done, my d decided on SUNY Cortland- she was concerned that alot of OOS U’s have a week-end commuter environment and she couldn’t justify that we pay more for college than SUNY - so we sorta lucked out.<br>
Bottom line is- some kids who swear they won’t go to a SUNY- decide that it just doesn’t make sense to go elsewhere.<br>
The schools I listed above may meet your requirements and they aren’t that far from NY.
and BTW- cortland is not as rural as you think. It’s on route 81 and it’s easy access to Syracuse and Binghamton. But it is a typical SUNY town- big stores are Wal-Mart, K-Mart and an Applebees. But she got used to it and actually enjoyed her 4 years in Cortland.</p>
<p>My daughter is in her 3rd year at Cortland and loves it. I haven’t met one kid from there that hasn’t enjoyed the school.</p>
<p>My other DD is high school senior and likes New Paltz & Marywood so far. The privates all depend on how much merit money she’ll get.</p>
<p>Agree with paying3’s assessment of UB…campus is very diverse, always stuff going on, and students regularly go to Canada for entertainment as well. However, with the student’s scores and gpa, I’m afraid UB might be a bit of a reach…but she should certainly apply if interested! Any chance that she is EOP eligible?</p>
<p>requirements for Buffalo State are easier than UB. I believe that campus is in downtown area but not sure.</p>
<p>fyi- Buffalo State and University of Buffalo are 2 different SUNY schools.</p>
<p>Paying - Albany is urban/suburban. Not rural in the slightest. It is also huge. </p>
<p>Look into SUNY Purchase, maybe. In White Plains but a suburban part and very close (20 minute train ride) to NYC. </p>
<p>Another friend’s daughter is starting there. She was a very average student.</p>
<p>Emilybee, that’s 20 minutes MAYBE to the Bronx railroad stations in NYC. It’s a longer trip to midtown Manhattan, isn’t it?</p>
<p>Lake, nope. My sister lives in Scarsdale 2 blks from WP and I’ve taken the train to the WP station when coming from the city late in the evening. Grand Central to WP is 20-25 minutes max.</p>
<p>West Virginia University</p>
<p>[Tuition</a> and Cost of Attendance](<a href=“How to Apply - Undergraduate Admissions at WVU”>How to Apply - Undergraduate Admissions at WVU)</p>
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<p>Never mind. I was looking at the wrong thing!</p>
<p>For instate students, I think that is bargain (esp. compared with instate costs in NJ)!!!</p>