<p>GC mom, I think the Siena program looked great; my D didn’t want to do it since she never took Italian. She went to another SUNY 1st semester because she wanted to do the dorm experience, but I think it would have been better to go to a community college and save $. Geneseo’s transfer department will tell you in advance if the classes you sign up for in the fall college will work for your major/gen eds at Geneseo. The trouble with going to Oneonta is that she might love Oneonta and not transfer. They usually want to transfer after living at home for a semester and going to CC if all their friends are going away!</p>
<p>GCMom, I would think that the sienna bridge would be a great choice and then enroll in Spring. She won’t be alone. Is it like a traditional study abroad, in that you pay tuition to Geneseo and she can get credit towards Geneseo? If so it’s best of both worlds. I’d encourage it.</p>
<p>Congratulations to everyone who has gotten in so far! Received my acceptance letter today, as well. One thing - 10,000 students applied for 925 spots? As selective as the school is, something tells me that Geneseo doesn’t have a 9.25% acceptance rate…can anybody explain?</p>
<p>We are planning a trip to Geneseo on March 14 and 15. She can meet with the education dept and talk to the siena bridge coordinator. I hope she can speak with some students who did it. I also have no issue with her living home in the fall and going to the community college or Adelphi. We will know more when we go up. I just think that having a diploma from Geneseo rather than Oneonta will look better in her job search. What do you guys think?</p>
<p>I just received my acceptance letter today!! I was shocked aswell.
My grades weren’t the best. I had a 3.0 gpa with a decent SAT (Around the low 2,000s mark) at one of New York City’s specialized high schools. However, I think my extracurricular activities definitely got me in. Congratz to everyone who was accepted; the admissions office really did a great job of making the class of 2017 feel welcomed. I’ve been accepted to many colleges (SUNYS in particular like UB Albany ETC.) and I must admit, Geneseo had the best acceptance letter I’ve received so far.</p>
<p>In response to the 925/10,000 post:</p>
<p>Sure, they have 925 spots available for freshmen students. That doesn’t mean they only accept 925 applicants. I’m not sure what their yield is, but they have to accept enough students in anticipation of 925 students actually enrolling. </p>
<p>I saw that as well, and I thought it was a misleading way of seeming more exclusive.</p>
<p>According to the Common Data Set, Geneseo accepts 43% and enrolls 24% of those accepted (Fall 2011). Fairly selective for a public school. The way they do the Spring enrollment helps them to be more selective because they can always pull someone from there into the fall admits and make their numbers.</p>
<p>DD received her acceptance today. We’re all quite thrilled, and Geneseo is one of her favorites.</p>
<p>GCMom, Geneseo over Oneonta. Nothing against Oneonta just between the two, its Geneseo.</p>
<p>Just got accepted! So happy and it’s also my first college acceptance! </p>
<p>White female from NYC with 3.7 GPA and a 1420/2180 SAT with decent extra curriculars</p>
<p>79.8 GPA (school doesn’t use 4.0 scale or rank), 1 AP course (AP Psych)
Nationally Recognized Public Highschool in NYC
1960 SAT
660 reading - 640 math - 660 writing
EC’s: Model UN, NCSY Bronx Chapter, Red Cross Club, Summer office work experience
Essay - Pretty freakin good
Rec- Average
Ethnicity: Nepalese, but its mostly grouped in with asian/southasian </p>
<p>idk how i got in but very happy. got rejected from Oneonta, UConn, Pitt, and waitlisted from Illinois.</p>
<p>@GCmom415 - I was glad my son was accepted to Geneseo. He is going for Physics and they have a great Physics program. U of R is his other top choice, but we’ll have to see what the financial package looks like. My other son is looking between Ithaca College and Oneonta. We were at Oneonta last Friday for the Scholarship brunch. We were seated at a table with a prospective math major, a freshman statistics major and the math department chairperson. She was an Oneonta alumni and seemed very good. We were actually impressed with all the administration personnel who were part of the program. The students also seemed like capable bunch. Before the visit, we were definitely planning on finding a way to send him to Ithaca College. After the visit, I would say Oneonta is definitely viable. They have a good math program and education is a huge major there as well. Your daughter has a tough choice. If she has her heart set on Geneseo, it’s probably worth the one semester wait. She would still get to enjoy 3 1/2 years there. But, if she also liked Oneonta, I think they are getting a very good cross section of students there now as well. I think they are accepting about 1200 out of 12,000 applicants.</p>
<p>@JEDAD2013 Its good to know that about Oneonta. I will take her up there to one of the admitted student days. I am also waiting on the financial awards from the privates. The wait continues. I was looking at the college websites last night and most of them did say awards by April 1. Gives us just about of month after that to decide.</p>
<p>@GCMom415 - not to stray to far off of Geneseo, but we did get Oneonta’s package yesterday via e-mail, which pointed us to a website. I expect the privates to show up within a week or two, hopefully.</p>
<p>My son has written a letter renouncing his acceptance as he is truly upset at Geneseo’s manipulation of their US News stats. I understand his concern. By “rejecting” applicants with lower SAT scores or GPA’s, Geneseo seeks to inflate their acceptance scores for purposes of their ranking. Actually, the New York Times wrote an article about this a year or so ago. If an applicant is qualified to attend in January, they are also qualified to attend in September. We are sorry for those students whose college lives will be disrupted so that Geneseo can appear to be more selective than they actually are, just for a useless ranking. In any event, there is another opening for fall.</p>
<p>So everyone around us (including our next door neighbor with the same last name letter) has gotten their letters of acceptance while my daughter has yet to receive anything. Does the fact that we’ve received nothing mean a rejection is on the way? I hope not, for obvious reasons, but it also seems to be adding insult to injury to make the rejected students sit through all the celebrations before they receive word.</p>
<p>Or maybe I just need to be patient? It’s not easy…</p>
<p>To Sawdog34 – We haven’t heard either, and we’re on pins and needles. Live in Maryland, but it shouldn’t take that much longer for a letter to get here than Long Island.</p>
<p>I haven’t heard either and I’m very worried. I haven’t heard of anyone being rejected yet so all I can think is that it’s coming. I just want to list my stats because out of those in my Highschool who have been accepted, I think I compare well.
75/444, 94 weighted GPA, 1380/2100 sat, 32 act, 3 sport varsity athlete (one since 8th grade), captain, many clubs/honor societies etc., multiple legitimate paying jobs, 2 at once.
I’ve also spoken to the track coach, visited, my mother nicely filled out the parent form, I’ve met my local (Long Island) admissions officer multiple times, and after this year I will have completed roughly 61 college credits by Geneseo’s charts and database.</p>
<p>My friends were:
(65/444 and 1310 SAT, no sports, newspaper editor),
(79/444 and 1330 SAT 1 sport, brother attended),
(110+/444, 1200 SAT, sister attended, few sports, sister attended) (Spring admit)
(55/444, 1220 SAT, no sports, honor society, few ECs) (Deferred)</p>
<p>I don’t mean to sound conceited, but I feel at least equally qualified. I am extremely worried and feel that I may have very well been rejected at this point.</p>
<p>After I posted my question I thought about it and I’m afraid I may have answered my own question. They probably sent all the letters out on Friday but sent the acceptance letters priority mail and the rejection letters using regular mail. Why waste postage on the 8000 kids they are rejecting? I really hope I’m wrong and I’m sure there are exceptions but I’m starting to take the delay in receiving a letter as an answer. And not the one we were hoping for. Seems like a foregone conclusion unfortunately.</p>
<p>@sawdog my daughter letter came reg mail…it was Select waitlist and Spring admission…Not ideal but still possible for her. So we will see. Good luck to those who havent heard and congrats to those who got in. But for people like us…please send in if your not going so maybe eventually they will clear students off the waitlist!</p>