<p>I see almost every SUNY mentioned here except Cobleskill. Is anyone attending? Any family members or friends or how about freshman?</p>
<p>I got into Purdue, Colorado State and Michigan state, but in times of economic hardships, I can only afford SUNY, They're paying more than 2/3 my tuition and I just recently won an incoming students scholarship.</p>
<p>I took a visit on student accepted day and I was not happy at all. The people up there seemed a bit like mute farmers. Not excited at all, hardly anyone spoke to anyone. I was actually the only black person there. The buildings were very short, like a little brick smurf village. Not sure what the insides of em all look like. And I think I'm partial to NYC, coming from a big city and then going to a small town probably has my vision in negative.</p>
<p>But if the academics are good, I am willing to look past it.
Can anyone describe their academic experience here?</p>
<p>One of the neighbor’s kids just graduated from Cobleskill with his Associates degree in Agricultural Business. Yep, he plans to take over the family farm. And he is a pretty taciturn young fellow. Extremely bright, however. He probably could have been accepted to Cornell but he wanted to go to a college closer to home to that he could continue to work on the farm on weekends. Hmmm, sounds like I’m confirming some of your impressions.</p>
<p>Along the same lines, a classmate of my D’s attended there and found it to be very “inactive” on the weekends. A lot of students went home since there were relatively close. Also, between semesters the students had to take everything out of room - not sure if that was some special circumstance, but might be worth looking into.</p>
<p>Son’s friend started there in the Fall 2008 as a freshman. He left after the first semester. He decided that it was better for him to come back and attend Community College for the Spring semester so he could concentrate on filling out transfer applications to other SUNY’s for the Fall of 2009.</p>
<p>According to him, there were massive amounts of druggies–I don’t mean kids smoking pot. I mean hard core drug use. He finished out the first semester but couldn’t wait to get out of there.</p>
<p>Hmm…Cobleskill is primarily an ag college, did you expect non-aggies? Did you look at Morrisville? Also have alot of animal/ag majors and in a small town, but quite a few LI/NYC kids were there when my neice was (graduated 2007). Also, fairly close to Syracuse (30 min or less), if you have a car. I don’t think too many go home weekends there, as we’re often down there for hockey games and there seems to be quite alot of student activity.</p>