Well-regarded HS in NYC suburb, just under 400 grads this year.
The largest single group is attending various SUNY’s, including the local CC. I found it humorous that Stony Brook and Binghamton are not listed as being SUNY’s… What I mean is, for instance, the list says SUNY Oneonta, SUNY Purchase, SUNY Oswego, but then it says Stony Brook U, Binghamton U. Who do they think they are fooling?
It was not a good year for Ivies at our HS. One to Dartmouth, I think 2 to Cornell and not much else.
My child is attending a SUNY where 3 other grads are as well.
technmom99 I hear you…I notice they now market and refer to SUNY Albany the same way. It’s “U Albany.” I’m not knocking the school - there are many great programs there, especially masters degrees. But even for the sports its “U Albany.” It’s not the University of Albany. Its another SUNY school funded by the state taxpayer.
@techmom99 and @Empireapple those non-SUNY designations are not just for show. It reflects the loss over time of state funding for those schools.
Some state schools, because such a small percentage of their funding comes from the state, they are practically independent of the state. Some are attempting to formalize that, and take control over from the state, or at least control proportionate to the amount of funding it’s receiving.
I don’t know the circumstances of these schools but this has been a trend lately. You know, if you’re going to make us be independent financially, then we’d like to be independent in terms of governance too. The name is an attempt to reflect that growing independence, IMHO.
As for most popular schools, one child went to an arts high school. The vast majority attended SUNYs and CUNYs because it’s cheap, high-quality education. Also, many who could afford it went to Ithaca.
Another child went to a specialty CTE school, and the students went on to the entire range of colleges, up to and including the Ivies and West Point.
Dustyfeathers what are you talking about loss of funding for SUNY schools? NYS is still funding Albany and the school is completely controlled by the state of NY.
There is an article in the NY Post today (ok - it’s not the highest caliber paper!) talking about the lack of teaching credentials for many instructors ay the CUNY schools. Majority of teachers are newly hired adjuncts vs full time professors
I am a little confused by your statement. The state of NY has not withdrawn or given less funding to Stony Brook, Albany or Binghamton as compared to other SUNY schools. I think that downplaying the SUNY connection is an individual school decision and is more likely due to the school deciding that pretending it is more like a private school than a state school might make it more attractive to out of state students, who pay more to attend.
On another note, I have heard that at some of the “better” schools, like Bing and SBU, classes are very large, at least at the intro level. At my kids’ “second tier” SUNY schools, the largest intro classes were 50 - 60 students, not 100+.
@wisteria is it true that CUNY schools have many instructors without proper teaching credentials? We are not from NY and my daughter is interested in Baruch.
From my understanding, the only credential to teach at a college is an academic degree, usually a PhD but nothing for teaching specifically.
I went to Rutgers and many of my instructors were graduate students who did not yet have a PhD. I think CUNY schools could very well be the same.
That said, I had some really excellent instructors without PhDs and some lousy ones with since their emphasis was on research and not teaching. It would almost be hard to generalize about quality for that reason.
The TAs generally put a lot of effort into preparing for their classes. I also found that even if a professor put effort into teaching, there wasn’t usually a lot of interest in getting to know or helping out undergraduates outside of class.
There is actually an article about this today in Newsday, a local LI paper. There are many adjunct lecturers, who have college degrees and often masters, and some adjunct lecturers, who apparently have PhD.'s. I don’t think that these are tenure track positions.
My friend’s D is an adjunct lecturer at Baruch, teaching English. She is bright and dedicated - she left law school to pursue a masters in creative writing and to teach - but the system seems not to be looking to give out too much tenure.
An adjunct can be very good. My D took several courses at our local CC over the summers and the adjuncts were great. I also know someone who was set to take a course at NYU at an exorbitant tuition. Something happened and they couldn’t do it. Two years later, he decided to try again, but at the local CC this time. It turned out that the teacher was the same person he would have had at NYU. Adjuncts often teach at multiple schools if they cant get enough sections at one school.
Baruch is an excellent school but please think about cost of living. Unless she is Macaulay, it can be expensive.
Not my high school (I’m homeschooled), but for the high school a lot of my friends attend, most popular are UNM, NMT, NMSU (all in-state), UA, OU, Carnegie Mellon, and the service academies.