<p>Can anyone tell me anything about SSU? In particular:</p>
<ul>
<li>type of students (intellectuals, partiers?)</li>
<li>quality of education</li>
<li>how well instructors get to know the students</li>
<li>friendliness</li>
<li>campus feel</li>
<li>dorms (esp frosh)</li>
</ul>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>search for posts by HisGraceFillsMe, a current student.</p>
<p>I saw this and just had to write. I can’t say enough good things about SSU. It was way off the beaten track for us, but we had to visit because SSU participates in the GLAST Program under the FANTASTIC Dr. Lynn Cominsky, an honor she shares with NASA, Caltech and Stanford. Check her out at:</p>
<p>[Lynn</a> R. Cominsky’s Homepage](<a href=“EdEon”>EdEon)</p>
<p>There is amazing space science to be done there, for one thing there is a lot less light pollution in that area than in most of CA. It took us some time to find Dr. Cominsky – the guides, it must be said, were kinda ditsy, and nobody in admissions was aware of the incredible astrophysics that was being done on campus. If you are at all interested in science, I can’t urge you enough to take time to visit Dr. Cominsky. She is very relaxed and cool, she brings her dog and spends time talking to you, and best of all, she lets undergrads work on any research being done.</p>
<p>I had the impression that SSU was great for music too, they have a new music performance building. </p>
<p>The dorms were the nicest I’ve seen anywhere. They are more like condos, but small. They are all named after wine grapes, like Zinfandel, Merlot, etc. (my son, a non-drinker, whispered to me, “I would want to live in the one called ‘seedless’”)</p>
<p>Don’t be put off by the sorta flaky behavior of tour guides or admissions people. We thought we had wasted our time at first, until we walked the campus on our own and met Dr. C. We met plenty of “science geeks” who were working on fun projects, and we were privy to some very high-level conversation between humanities and math profs in the college eatery.</p>
<p>You should know that Rohnert Park is in the middle of nowhere (well, wine country), so if having easy access to a metropolitan area is an issue for you, you need to take that into consideration.</p>
<p>Anyway, good luck, Sonoma State is definitely worth considering.</p>
<p>(S ultimately decided to go to school on East Coast)</p>
<p>Our son went to a week-long soccer camp there in July and has now put Sonoma State as one of his top choices. He mentioned the rec room–inside soccer courts, climbing walls, as something that impressed him (he is an athlete). We were surprised to learn he had his own room at the camp, as with every other soccer camp he’s attended, he had a roommate.</p>
<p>Since he is looking for a smaller school in NorCal, it fits his criteria. We are waiting for the application to come out Oct. 1st, and SSU will be his first app.</p>
<p>Don’t know if it still runs or if it is still the same name but Golden Gate Transit used to run an express bus down into San Francisco.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone. I think SSU would be perfect for my son when the time comes-- he’s only in grade 10, but I like to think ahead, even if he doesn’t (but that’s a topic for another thread…)</p>
<p>I’m going to be following this thread too… hopefully Hisgrace will chime in.</p>
<p>BfloGal, I met a mom last weekend whose d is in her senior year at Sonoma State. The mom couldn’t say enough about it. Students love it, dorms are big and you can live there all four years (rare in the csu’s), faculty really cares. She says it’s like a private school at a public school price.</p>