Out of State Students

sbuadmissions
Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:01:24 +0000

Hey all. (Yes, I check the Geneseo board a lot, as I’m a Geneseo alum.)

SUNY’s just not as old and established, reputation-wise, as some of the other state systems that you mentioned, probably because our resources are spread so widely, as opposed to on one monster Michigan-Penn State-UVA-sized campus. (Which we don’t want, believe me.) We (Stony Brook) will be about 15% OOS this fall, although I don’t know the numbers for the other university centers.

You’ll see the OOS population grow a bit at Geneseo, but not as quickly as it’ll grow at some of the other places, just because of their size. They already get a lot of applications for very few spots; as much as they’d probably love more geographic diversity, it’ll probably come at the expense of top NYS students getting in.

As far as the ethnic-cultural-socioeconomic diversity piece, Geneseo certainly has that. (Or at least, they did while I was there.) And if you’re from, say, Long Island, people from – for example – Buffalo might as well be from Topeka, because we’re barely speaking the same language. (I’ll always, always, always remember the screaming match I had my freshman year with a girl from Grand Island who insisted that “orange” was pronounced not only with the long “o,” which sounded idiotic, but with only one syllable: “ornj.”)

-Chris