<p>SUNY New York schools are very good for in state students who want a decent education at an affordable cost - all will give you a fine education, with Bing, Geneseo, St Brook, New Paltz, Albany and Buffalo being most competitive, in that order…if they were to raise tuition however (as another post commented)…most would choose an excellent private education over the very good SUNY system in that case…Hence, the main attraction of SUNY is the $$$ not necessarily the quality of the education, facilities, location or opportunities.</p>
<p>soccersam: you’re an idiot. Rather than just acknowledge that you messed up, which you did, you claim that I said (technically, it’d be wrote or typed) something stupid. Face it, you messed up and now you’re just acting childish.</p>
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<p>You did say something stupid. The acceptance letter does not say what you said. Not only did you fudge the number to begin with, but you misquoted the letter. You either naively believed that truly only 800 kids got accepted, in which case you’re… well… stupid, or you purposely said something stupid. You’ve been known to say stupid things.</p>
<p>870 were originally accepted, that was to be implied since getting off the waitlist is not the same thing. YOU have been know to say stupid things.</p>
<p>soccersamdude11, while I understand your interpretation, the letter implies that there is a 870 goal which the college will fill by accepting more students than necessary. In other words, this means that more than 870 applicants were accepted. I don’t know much about the SUNY system but I would guess that that means around 3000 or so applicants were accepted.</p>
<p>To the other posters: ease up on him. It’s a simple mistake. :/</p>
<p>keep on digging that hole soccersam.</p>
<p>modestmelody. I never said that the SUNY system didn’t educate a lot of New Yorkers. I just said NY and most of the NE never fully funded a top notch university system with a strong flagship school. Cornell is only partially public in certain areas and cannot really be considered a state school. I also don’t agree with the assumption that most students would go to private schools if the publics were more expensive. The top private schools are very hard to get into and there just aren’t enough spaces to handle the additional load.</p>
<p>You mean filling? i’ll try my best</p>
<p>Sigh…
<a href=“http://www.geneseo.edu/isu/cms_pdf/iresearch/CDS_2008Geneseo.pdf[/url]”>http://www.geneseo.edu/isu/cms_pdf/iresearch/CDS_2008Geneseo.pdf</a>
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<p>Now, this is for fall of 2008, but regardless, 3915 were accepted. You say that only ~800 were accepted normally and the rest were on waitlist? Wrong. 0 students went off the waitlist, and only 312 accepted a place on the waiting list.</p>
<p>The reason why I am hard on this “mistake” is because you’ve been known to say stupid things.</p>
<p>Can you name any other time in which i have say something stupid? That’s what i thought.</p>
<p>Even this was not “stupid” unless you consider slight errors in typing (something everyone does) to be stupid.</p>
<p>All i was trying to say was that nearly 11,000 applied for 870 spots, not that only 870 were accepted. I understand how yield works, give me a break and chill.</p>
<p>Yes, I can.
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-life/763477-average-college-gpa.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-life/763477-average-college-gpa.html</a>
I don’t mind your errors if you acknowledge your mistakes. However, you tend to take criticisms overly personally and fight back.</p>
<p>how is that something stupid? I am just entering college and was curious as to what an average GPA was. Fair question if you ask me.</p>
<p>No, not the first post. The rest of them.</p>
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<p>No, I don’t consider Cornell entirely a state school, however, what I’m saying is that Cornell, because of its mission and the time period in which it was founded, served as a place where NYS started funneling money when other states were constructing flagship universities. Just as the need for public schools for certain professions and interests arrived, Cornell arrived with a similar mission to many of the public institutions at the time and became funded by NY to fulfill areas of interest that most public unis were created for.</p>
<p>The result is that while NY did invest in education, most of it went to a private school which alleviated the pressure to support a separate public system.</p>
<p>Despite the fact that there is no flagship, however, I disagree with the notion that the SUNY system is not top notch. So I agree there is no flagship in NY and there is a clear reason why, however, there is a top notch system in NY that often is overlooked because of the lack of a flagship. In fact, after the UC/CSU system, I’d say that SUNY is the most comprehensive system I know of in the country.</p>