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If SUNY says “we’ll give you $130,000,000 and even if you are privately owned an operated by Cornell, we’ll put them on the website if we want to because we paid $130,000,000.” Or maybe the whole dialogue was a little more eloquent, but this is how I imagined it.
You can’t apply to a contract college through SUNY, you have to apply to Cornell using their application process.
This is correct. I’m pretty sure most all universities, public and private, receive some form of support from the state, the contract colleges are slightly distinguished since they are private yet receive a good amount of fuding for their educational missions which directly benefit NY State.</p>