Community College Instant Decision Days

sybbie719
Fri, 29 May 2009 16:54:47 +0000

On the spot admissions do have their place and serve a population of students who need to attend whether for academic or financial reasons. The CUNY CC’s have on the spot admissions over the summer where the student brings their diploma, their sealed orfficial transcript, immunization records, ID pay the fee and are admitted on the spot. They take the placement test, meet with the FA counselor, meet with an academic advisor, register and done.



I frankly don’t see a great deal of value in the A/A- student who has the money and ability to attend a Geneseo opting instead to hang out in the hometown with his high school friends for another two years in order to save $3,000.



With the large increase of applicants at the SUNY and CUNY schools, students who would have been a shoo-in are not being accepted because they are full (especially those that file late in the cycle).

Sometimes going the SUNY CC route to a school with an articulation agreement to the 4 year program that you ultimately want to attend can be a great strategy for this same A/A- student who may not be able to walk into through the front door at an extremely competive program or whose family may who cannot afford 4 years.

For example:

Onondaga CC is one of my favorite SUNY CC’s because of their extensive articulation agreements.

[OCC::Transfer / Articulation Agreements](http://www.sunyocc.edu/academics.aspx?id=1441)

It is a school that I do recommend to students who:

1) would be better served from leaving the city and going away to college.
2) may not have the GPA but not the SAT scores to get into the 4 year program or the 4 year program is a competitive one
3) if accepted, will do the work required, do it well and make the articulation agreement work for them
4) may have a good chance of being accepted through an EOP program, which they can carry over to the 4 year SUNY or convert to HEOP should they attend a private NYS school.
5) I can provide a teachable moment to and let them know that there are many roads that will lead you to the same destination.

Because we are in NYC, this works for my students, because the on-line application is free and they will turn over an admission decision in approximately 2 weeks.

I can administer their on-line placement test in NYC (saving my students a trip to Syracuse), they know what courses they need for english and math and can start planning the courses they need to fulfill the articulation agreement.