Really, “everyone kisses your feet” for getting into Binghamton? Outside NY people have not really heard of it. I believe it is most often a safety for NY students. I think over 80% of the students offered admission turn it down. Apparently NY spends a ton promoting the idea it is “the premier university…”. Not sure this is true but someone said they are now piping that propaganda into the buildings and in the phone system. I think that means that while you walk through some buildings on campus or are put on hold if you call there you are fed propaganda about how you are enrolled in the “premiere university…”. I guess it is intended to make students feel better about being there. I’m not sure. I doubt it works. People figure out what is true and what is propaganda. People tend to appreciate the truth over lies.
It is a decent middle sized public university. The PR trying to elevate it and depict it as something it isn’t just backfires. They should stop ramming the image of it being a “premiere university” down the throat of the public. It simply isn’t that. It trails Pitt, Texas A & M, Rutgers, VT, Mass and most of the flagships of other states. Now it seems to trail Stony Brook, Geneseo and ESF and other SUNYs. It is apparently busting at the seams and the academic facilities have fallen far behind those of other schools. But it is a decent mid sized public university.