" It is clearly not driven by finances since cost for Advantage students are just about the same as cost of the other 4 year SUNYs"
My point was that the program is driven by the school’s economics (need to fill the new dorm space), not the students’ finances.
“And those scores have to be pretty low.”
There’s a self-selection aspect to applying to college and students with scores as low as you’ve suggested generally don’t bother applying to Binghamton without special circumstances that might give them a chance of getting accepted. Scrolling back through last year’s posts, I also found a student with a 3.2 GPA, 6 AP’s and a 28 ACT and another student with a 26 ACT and a 92 average who were offered Binghamton Advantage. At least one of these students was enthusiastic about the program.
Again, I personally don’t like the program, but that’s not the point. I’ve responded to your posts because I disagree with your general description of Binghamton in all of your posts as average public school with a mid-range, unintellectual student body, headed by a corrupt administration who successfully dupes tens of thousands of students each year into believing that they are applying to one of the best public universities in the country, as Binghamton’s inclusion on various lists of top public schools would lead them to believe. I’ll be sure to ask them about this when I take my kid to Accepted Students Day next weekend!