Thank you. I followed your thread with interest because we are a NY/SUNY family. My H attended Stony Brook and is heartbroken that not one of the children has the remotest interest in it. My D graduated from a SUNY and I have 2 other sons attending now. I’m not sure where your daughter is but it sounds like it worked out well for you and her.
Did your D do common core? I thought my son’s cohort was the first one to have to deal with it. I begged him to take the foundations class this year that I rejected for him last year, in some part because of the responses on this thread, but he is so happy not taking math. Perhaps 5 sciences (3 honors and 1 AP, plus one regular) can balance it out, he thinks. I offered to have his tutor work with him if he did the math but he is not interested. His tutor thinks he might be able to get up to a 21 on next week’s ACT.
He has visited Purchase, Pace, LIU-Post and Brooklyn. He didn’t like Brooklyn at all and loved Pace. That was VERY surprising to me because he has always said he hates Manhattan. We are 40 minutes away on the LIRR and he hardly ever goes in, but he said he really liked the program and the whole downtown area. All 3 of the schools he liked say they want the 3 years of math but when asked on the tours, they said it was not as big an issue for theater kids.
I know that your D changed her mind and might want to study math, but I would eat my aunt’s hand-knitted baby booties if S17 decided to study math. He asked me if I would pay for the tutor to help him take a CLEP test so that he wouldn’t have to take any math in college. He knows that is what I did when I went to college, although I didn’t use a tutor. I have never had a single regret about avoiding math in college. I did the same thing for science.
Geneseo and Binghamton aren’t on our radar, both grades wise and program wise. We are still considering Fredonia, Oswego, Oneonta and Buff State. The other option is our local CC, which has a good theater tech program and is a SUNY, so he could transfer.