<p>Can i get some feedback on UCONN vs. Suny Geneseo. Daughter was all set for SUNY Geneseo and UConn called today and offered scholarship 1/2 off oos tuition in addition to the 5K grant already received. She is undecided. Suny geneseo is harder to get into but Uconn seems to have more national recognition. Any feedback is helpful</p>
<p>Did you visit both campuses? My son hated Geneseo for some reason, even though I thought they both had the same rural atmosphere. He likes the fact that Uconn has alot of school spirit and the basketball team. Uconn is much bigger and has alot of different majors. He is OOS too for Uconn with 1/2 tuition, so I think that Uconn is the best bang for our buck. It ends up being not that much more than SUNY Bing. for us. But it also seems like girls like Geneseo more than boys (from what I’ve seen), and Geneseo is getting the reputation of a public Ivy league. I would say let her decide where she feels most comfortable. They are both good schools.</p>
<p>Does she have any idea what she would like to study?</p>
<p>No - she has no idea - but knows it is not math or science. She likes the ability to take some art classes or minor in art, so Geneseo cutting its Studio Art degree might weigh into her decision.</p>
Just wondering what she ended up deciding. We are kind of in the same boat, with lots of choices and very confused!! We live in NY, so Geneseo and Binghamton are IS tuition for us.
Forgive me, but this comparison seems like apples to oranges me thinks.
Also, according to latest USN&WR, Geneseo accept rate is 59% v 50% for UCONN, so not sure why its harder to get into. Not knowing what your D is going to study or where she will live, but my sense is that attending a school with a more national presence (ranked #19 for Public Universities), like UCONN might make more sense.
If she is looking for a smaller college experience at UCONN, their Living/Learning Community program can help as my older S was involved in one 2 years ago.
Good luck and always good to have choices - that is the one thing I tell my kids, you should always set yourself up so you have choices in life…:>
capedorysailor, % accepted does not give you information about how difficult a school is to get into. Some schools have fewer applicants but stronger ones, for example. Applicants for some schools are very “self selected” in the sense that the school isn’t a great fit for most students (say a women’s college) or the school does not use the common app (say MIT) so it’s not possible to apply through just one more click. To explore the difficulty level of admissions you need to compare schools on the characteristics of incoming students (scores, grades, etc).
Good point and I understand that accept rate is a statistic like many stats that come with a lot of noise. Unfortunately where does one fine the data that shows the average of SAT/ACT scores and GPAs for applicants vs those that were accepted or entering class? I haven’t found a source like that. But it would be good to look into that as a large data problem to analyze.
I agree that this is all highly subjective - even looking at grades, some high schools I suspect have differing grade standards. Is an A- in one high school really the same as an A- at another high school?
At any rate, back to the OP request, her D has a choice which is goodness.
capedorysailor, you don’t routinely see that and it is not available in the CDS although some schools do post that information. However, even the information about the objective stats of the incoming class provides a clue. Not grades though or rank. but SAT and ACT scores. A school with a 80% acceptance rate can have students with ACT (25-75) at 28-32 whereas one with an acceptance rate of 50% can have students with ACTs at 20-26. Those are two very different groups of students.