NYC Moms/Dads: Is It Possible to Get Into HYP From NYC Without a Hook?

mythmom
Sun, 16 Sep 2007 01:48:11 +0000

TutuTaxi: A very good question. I seem to be the only one cynical enough to believe that because the privates were in place before the state system got going in NY, the NY legislature did not want to bump the privates off the shelves, just like the generic brand can’t have the packaging or endorsements of Tylenol even if produced by the same company because who would buy the Tylenol?

Here’s a casual look at NY private institutions: Columbia, Barnard, Cornell, NYU, Fordham, Adelphi, Hofstra, Long Island University, Sarah Lawrence, Marist, Vassar, Bard, Skidmore, Hamilton, Union, Ithaca, Hartwick, Elmira, Syracuse, URochester, Hobart and William Smith, RPI, Alfred, School of Visual Arts, Juilliard, Manhattan School of Music, Mannes, Eugene Lang College plus many others I am forgetting, the Marymounts for example. (There are probably three times this number considering smaller or lower tier institutions.)
I think the NY Legislature has a vested interest in protecting the health of these institutions.

There’s another issue in NY: We are really two states: Downstate (Not really in US at all, haha, a European type centralized city and suburbs with public transportation, and Upstate, a more rural environment with elements of New England, PA and Ohio. These two constituencies can never agree about anything and could certainly not both be satisfied with a flagship u in the other region.