<p>My daughter will be choosing a SUNY school as part of her selection this fall to apply to.</p>
<p>Geneseo, we hear this is really in the middle of nowhere but highly reccomended. She wants to study English, Humanities, Art but not sure what she wants to be when she grows up yet.</p>
<p>Binghamton, we have heard this is a "snobby school and rather cold and bleak location" yet regarded as a top school. Also a partnership w/ Cornell? in which if an applicant is rejected Binghamton is offered for first two years w/ a guarenteed transfer to Cornell for remaining four years provided that you keep a certainn gpa. Anyone know if these things are true? How selective is Binghamton?</p>
<p>Albany, This only because it is the most urban setting (this is what she prefers) and has a good reputation. She has heard it is a cement city that is "ok" but not great and maybe way too big of a school for her. How SUNY Albany compare in size and enrollment w/ Binghamton?</p>
<p>Would anyone who attends or has children who have attended care to compare/contrast these schools?</p>
<p>Any other SUNY's for a humanities student who likes urban medium sized school or maybe other schools in Northeast that would not cost more than 15-20K for all?</p>
<p>It is hard to answer without knowing your daughter's SAT scores.</p>
<p>I would recommend Syracuse University as an alternative to the best SUNYs. You might be surprised how much financial aid you receive from SU.</p>
<p>Of the SUNYs, I think SUNY Buffalo is best, although Binghamton is more selective. If you prefer an LAC, then Geneseo. Albany has a reputation as an extreme party school.</p>
<p>i agree with collegehelp. geneseo is a great school, even if it is a bit secluded. albany was the #1 party school a couple years ago (according to princeton review, i think?). U at buffalo is probably the best of the university SUNY's, in my opinion.</p>
<p>We are doing our Suny tour this week-end and looking at Cortland-Oneonta and Delhi (absolute safety). If interested in humanities and Art, I would check out SUNY Purchase and New Paltz. Please get the SUNY viewbook. It really has good info on each of the college campuses. You can view it on-line or see if d's HS has a copy. It gives invaluable info on each of the campuses. Good luck.</p>
<p>The top SUNY's are Binghamton, Stony Brook and Geneseo. No other SUNY comes close.</p>
<p>In terms of the differences, Stony is more tech-oriented than Bing. Also, less people stay on campus weekends because many head to NYC. </p>
<p>Stony and Bing are huge university centers, more like major universities. Geneseo is more like a LAC, much smaller and in the middle of nowhere.</p>
<p>She might enjoy Suny Buffalo. Be careful bcs of her math sat you want to make sure that she has a suny that will also accept her. You may, therefore, opt to apply to more than one. I have no idea about whether it would be appropriate for her major. Many kids like it bcs it seems to have more to do in the area than some of the rural ones. I have never been there.</p>
<p>I live in NY and the SUNY reputation goesl like this:</p>
<ol>
<li>Bing</li>
<li>Stony</li>
<li>Albany
after that its just complete crap.
Bing is truly in the middle of nowhere. I went and it took hours to drive up there and on the way there were freaking.. brownie sellers. Stony is suburban so its OK but ehh the surroundings are just average. The campus itself is nice.</li>
</ol>
<p>chibifry, i think that the reputations tend also to be quite regional. being from rochester, there is a lot more emphasis placed on the quality of geneseo than ANY of the university SUNYs, and the only really well attended university SUNY is UB. Binghamton has a pretty solid reputation there as well, but Albany is considered a huge party school and little more, and it is pretty unheard of to apply to Stony Brook.</p>
<p>"Binghamton, we have heard this is a "snobby school and rather cold and bleak location" yet regarded as a top school. Also a partnership w/ Cornell? in which if an applicant is rejected Binghamton is offered for first two years w/ a guarenteed transfer to Cornell for remaining four years provided that you keep a certainn gpa. Anyone know if these things are true? How selective is Binghamton?"</p>
<p>geneseo is the most selective college in the suny system. it is in the middle of no where - very rural. but it is only about an hour from rochester which is a nice city.</p>
<p>binghamton is the smallest and most selective of the university centers in the suny system. it is actually in vestal which is a suburb of binghamton. binghamton itself is a real city - certainly not a big one, but a city. there are some cultural events, internship options.</p>
<p>if you don't like snow, neither is the place to be. but they deal with snow a lot better than they do in places that don't get as much snow.</p>
<p>new paltz is becoming a "hotter" school - didn't have a great reputation back when I was in college, but its getting increasing hard to get in to -- between geneseo and binghamton in terms of size. new paltz itself isn't anything special, but its only about 2 hours or less to Manhattan.</p>
<p>Ranked higher than Stony Brook, Albany, and Buffalo by US News and World Reports (Binghamton was ranked higher)</p>
<p>Small (less than 2000 students), located in an urban setting (Syracuse).</p>
<p>Stumped? It is the College of Environmental Science and Forestry (<a href="http://www.esf.edu)%5B/url%5D">www.esf.edu)</a>. It provides a great education in the sciences and and some areas of engineering, as well as landscape architecture and forestry.</p>
<p>Stonybrook is definitely the most science and tech oriented among all the SUNYs! Even SUNY professors have noted that to me.</p>
<p>If you want liberal arts, I agree that Binghamton is considered the best. Frankly though, I don't think that you can go wrong at any of the big SUNYs. I have a friend who attended Stonybrook and majored in English. His reasoning was that there won't be as many top verbal students there as at other SUNYs and that he should do well GPA wise. He was quite correct, graduating with a 3.75 and attending Cornell Law School. You have to evaluate your post college options too.</p>