Not recommending that he go to Brockport. Just that he can get on track for PA right out of high school at state tuition costs if he opts for that choice. A lot of private schools have the 6 year PA programs but SUNY doesn’t seem to offer that.
But SUNY campuses aren’t what they once were for admissions. Admissions at all colleges are getting tougher each year. This isn’t the old days at Brockport when they’d be accepting 90% of their applicants. They accepted only 58% last year and 55% just a couple of years ago, and my guess is that once the numbers come out, it will drop even lower this year. He said he was looking for schools which accept 40-50% of their applicants or higher. He also would prefer schools that are small to medium in size. If you want to pay instate tuition at a SUNY for schools like that your options are limited.
At Brockport, 10% of last year’s freshman class were in the top 10% of their high school class. That’s this student. He would essentially be in the honors cohort. Isn’t that what we’re looking at for a safety? Affordable and a high likelihood of acceptance. Again my focus was on affordability at a school which offers the program he’s interested in if he opts out of the risky pre-med route. I also was looking at schools that are not rural but are near a city as he requested.