<p>Anyway I know that I'm only going to be a junior but I have put a lot of mind into what I want to do. I want to keep my options open but I am leaning towards getting involved with a SUNY school, since I'm from ny and it would be of benefit to me cause of tuition and stuff. Anyway I want to study biology with a concentration in adolescent education- so a bio teacher in a high school/ middle school. One of the schools that I already like is SUNY Cortland. But like I said I want to keep my options open.
I am almost a perfect A student, my accumulative GPA thus far in my HS career is a 97. I'm from Newburgh, NY so I would prefer to be somewhat nearby not as close as New Paltz but not super far up either, 3 hours max.</p>
<p>Go to the SUNY.edu site. You can read about all of the schools, you can input information like the majors you’re interested in and learn which schools offer them. It’s an excellent user friendly site and was very helpful to my D when choosing her school. </p>
<p>SUNY also offers a service where you can come in with your official transcript and sit down with a counselor who will talk to you about your grades, your interests, etc. We spent 1 1/2 hours with ours and he helped D narrow her list down to 4. She added Geneseo as a reach but did not get in.</p>
<p>There might be a center closer to Newburgh; we went in Manhattan.</p>
<p>Binghamton; geneseo</p>
<p>Binghamton.</p>
<p>Stony Brook might be the better choice for science, but I’ve heard you won’t get a “college experience” there.</p>
<p>Binghamton doesn’t offer an undergraduate education degree and neither does Stony Brook (except for some foreign languages). You would have to major in bio and then go for a certificate. </p>
<p>Have you considered Queens College? There are dorms now and the cost is less than a SUNY. With your GPA, you would get in. If your SATs correspond, you could maybe get into Honors or even Macaulay. My DD had a 620 on her math SAT, with an 88 on the Math A regents and a 78 on the Math B and she was invited into the 2000 program to become a math or science teacher. Sad, huh? Anyway, my D was not in the least interested in teaching math or science - she’s at a SUNY in a 5 year program studying special ed and music.</p>
<p>Cortland has what appears to be an excellent program in urban education but it takes very few students. My D was very interested in it but as a white female she was at the bottom of the pecking order and wound up declining her admission and going elsewhere. Also, you can’t apply to the urban ed program until you are already attending Cortland - what happens if you don’t get in?</p>
<p>IF you do decide to do the education dept program, check out the admission requirements. Geneseo doesn’t admit until after you have done some pre-reqs and the website says they don’t take everyone, so you could theoretically go there for a year and then not get in to the ed program. My D’s school, while not as highly ranked as Geneseo overall, admits in the first semester and tells you in the second if you’ve been accepted to the 5 year program. You can be put out of the program if your GPA falls below a certain level, but …</p>
<p>Queens college has dorms 0.o …</p>
<p>@ Joan, what do you mean? Do you mean like I can go to cortland and NOT be in the education program? What if i was to major in early childhood education instead? And isn’t Queens College a CUNY school? The city is too close I’ll be home every weekend and never know what living on my own really is lol.</p>
<p>Also i am a hispanic female… is it like a quota thing?</p>
<p>I would say stony brook, but it seems like you wanna stay upstate. Binghampton is a great choice for teaching and science. That’s prob ur best bet.</p>
<p>It’s not so much that i want to stay upstate. I just want to be far enough from home so i’m not always here and i learn to be independent</p>
<p>You may also want to check out Oneonta. They have education and with your grades you might qualify for a scholarship. Also, with your grades, SUNY Potsdam will also give you scholarship $$ (They have a full room and board plus tuition and $500 towards books Presidential scholarship available.) and they do have bus service back and forth to the city and are actively recruiting minorities from the city. I’m sure wherever you go you will do well!</p>
<p>For Biology and Education, I would consider Geneseo.</p>
<p>Queens is a CUNY school but it has had dorms since 2009. My D was going to go there and live at her grandma’s till she got a nice private scholarship.</p>
<p>My D is starting at SUNY ESF in Syracuse this upcoming fall. It was a school that she wasn’t even considering, but after doing some research and visiting, she fell in love with it. They offer a joint program with the Environmental Bio dept and Syracuse University for a secondary school teacher certification
[SUNY-ESF</a>, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry](<a href=“http://www.esf.edu/admissions/programs.htm]SUNY-ESF”>http://www.esf.edu/admissions/programs.htm)
and it’s worth a look if you’re into science. My daughter also wanted to be “far enough” away from home, but wanted a reasonably small school, but have the social life of a larger school (Syracuse) and a city to do things in. And the snow? Well, it snows everywhere in NY. We weren’t impressed with the city of Binghamton, Oneonta was ok, Geneseo she liked the school, but the town was too small. Albany she liked, and I had gone there, but the social scene has changed! New Paltz seemed too close to home, as my sister lives there, but it was a close second. ESF also offers scholarships towards the tuition based on your grades, which she got and that helped seal the deal.</p>
<p>When we drove away from Syracuse she turned and told me that this was the one, she was in love. I hope it lives up to her expectations!</p>