<p>Pseudonym, Do you feel that your academic advisement thus far has been good? I'm asking because a relative of mine went to Stony Brook for two years and her academic advisement was terrible. She also had a very hard time understanding many of her professors because of their strong dialects and accents. Has this been an issue with any of the students that you know? She ended up transferring.</p>
<p>pseudonym, thank you because your inside perspective is very helpful. Thank you for being so candid and telling us about your experience as a student. I do hope that you get the classes you need to get out on time. Are the online classes a solution at all? Honestly, I know this is of no help to you, but my heart goes out to you because it sounds like you are doing everything you can to get into what you need to graduate on time.</p>
<p>I have personal experience with another underfunded state U, not a SUNY, which had similar conditions to what pseudonym describes. You can't just cram more people into a lab room. Online courses might work for classes that are straight lecture and exam, but not so much for those that need lab and discussion.</p>
<p>I am probably sending my senior to a SUNY next year, regardless of budget cuts since it is probably all I can afford. But families who have choices might want to look carefully at how each campus is cutting back. On the SUNY website, there's a section called "Today's News" which posts articles from local papers about each campus and many of them refer to the very difficult decisions to be made by administrators on where to cut back.</p>