<p>Wondering if anyone is familiar with CUNY schools? My daughter is going to be a senior
next year. Has her heart set on going to school in NYC. We live in PA so I'm curious as
to what their acceptance rate is for OOS students. NYU is definitely out of our budget but
read good things about a CUNY education. </p>
<p>Thanks in advance for any input.</p>
<p>Where would she live? Which CUNYs is she interested in?</p>
<p>They are all commuter schools so there’s little college life. This would be hard for many kids–classmates will be all ages, many working full time or living at home with parents. This is not how most kids picture college.</p>
<p>New York City has many schools in the five boroughs. Does she want to be specifically in Manhattan? I agree with previous posters who say that the CUNYs are mostly commuter schools. However, CCNY has a dorm, but it’s not cheap, and you will be paying out-of-state rates for tuition.</p>
<p>[The</a> Towers at CCNY - The Towers Main](<a href=“http://www.ccnytowers.com/ccny/]The”>http://www.ccnytowers.com/ccny/)</p>
<p>Also, there are two SUNYs that I know of within NYC, but they’re both specialty schools: FIT (Fashion Institute) and SUNY Maritime.</p>
<p>Are you not considering private schools because of the cost? What does your daughter want to study?</p>
<p>If she can get into the MacCauley honors program, there is more aid. idk if they take OOS.</p>
<p>queens college is opening up a residence hall in the fall</p>
<p>[The</a> Summit at Queens College | Queens College First Residence Hall | Flushing, New York](<a href=“http://www.thesummitatqc.com%5DThe”>http://www.thesummitatqc.com)<br>
and I believe the honors program at Hunter has dorms too. </p>
<p>there are 3 suny’s on long island that all have residence halls and would enable her to get into the city on week-ends- SUNY Stony Brook, Old Westbury and Farmingdale. Stony Brook has the best academic reputation of the 3 Long Island suny’s. </p>
<p>Queens college and Hunter have very fine reputations in the city too and Baruch is great for business, but I do not think they have any residence halls.</p>
<p>Here’s more info on the honors program, and apparently out-of-state applicants get the same free tuition as in-staters.</p>
<p>[Macaulay</a> Honors College -](<a href=“Macaulay Honors College”>http://macaulay.cuny.edu/)</p>
<p>There is also SUNY Purchase in Westchester, which would allow weekends in the city. </p>
<p>I think all of the CUNYs are in the process of getting housing for the Honors kids, so make certain you get the latest info. Hunters dorm is around 23rd street, a bus from teh 76th campus, but its a dorm. Again, dont know if any avialibiltiy for other than the honors kids.</p>
<p>Don’t forget Fordham University at Lincoln Center (or the main Bronx campus, for that matter). And there’s Marymount Manhattan and the College of Saint Vincent. I suspect they are cheaper than NYU or Columbia. Certainly not as cheap as CUNY, however. Also, CUNY-Lehman College has a more traditional campus in the Bronx. The neighborhood is decent and I would think the college has inroads into off-campus housing options.</p>
<p>I’m a Macaulay student at Hunter next year. In addition to the free tuition, free macbook, and free cultural pass we also get our own rooms on 23rd street. The advising so far is great and there is a wide variety of awesome honors courses to take. Plus you can take courses across the cuny system so it makes taking whatever you want really easy. Just know that its really competitive. Last year at hunter the average sat was 1410/1600 and i’m sure it will be higher this year.</p>
<p>cheers,
Mike</p>
<p>I believe she would be most interested in Hunter. From what I can figure out this would
be the school most centrally located in town. She is interested in Engineering but also
Anthropology.</p>
<p>Have not looked into Marymount Manhattan or Saint Vincent. Thanks for the heads up.</p>
<p>We are also considering private schools. She is interested in Engineering and
Anthropology. She is very much interested in living in the city, NY in particular.
Can’t argue that point for all the opportunities she will have available to her.</p>
<p>Did read up on the Honors program at CUNY, very impressive. Thanks</p>
<p>Congrats on making it into the Honors program, quite the accomplishment. I have looked
into the program and it is very impressive. Although I do not know how many OOS students are actually considered.</p>
<p>In the old days and as a lifelong new yorker, if you were interested in engineering --CCNY (City College) was the go to CUNY. Things may have changed but I would give a more thorough look at CCNY. As it has an Honors program, has dorms and is in Manhattan it may fill alot of your kids needs. Hunter was always thought of as a more liberal arts, social work type of school, and was not as well known for the sciences. It may be different today.</p>
<p>Again- I’m probably showing my age, but that is how some of the CUNY schools were viewed by real New Yorkers many moons ago when I applied.</p>
<p>I am a CCNY graduate, and I agree that it was the engineering school of choice within CUNY. I know that Andy Grove of Intel fame gave the school a lot of money fairly recently, and I think they were going to name the engineering school after him.</p>
<p>Thanks marny 1 and Lurkness for all the great info on the CUNY’s, it’s a big help. Think
we will definitely direct our efforts to look at CCNY since it has many of the things she is
looking for. Does anyone know if she cannot get dorm housing how difficult it is for a new
freshmen student to find a decent apartment to live in in the city?? As a mom this is one
of my main concerns. She has pretty much been in a country atmosphere most of her life. This could be overwhelming for an 18 year old.</p>
<p>It will be very expensive or very difficult to find a safe clean place. My opinion, is I would not let a freshman attend school in NYC unless she was in dorms. I have lived in the NY area for the last 30 years. I came here right after college. Even that wasnt easy.</p>
<p>I agree with kayf. Of course thousands of young people come here every year to live, and most of them are fine. Still, if it were my kid, and especially one who’s not that worldly or used to living in a city, I would want her in a dorm. And I bet lots of parents feel that way. That’s why NYU has been building dorm after dorm after dorm for the past 30 years.</p>