<p>Uskoolfish said “but I would say that from our neck of the woods, the SUNY’s are not drawing these top students.”</p>
<p>You are talking about Long Island, I am talking about NYC, which are essentially the same thing, in reference what I’m going to say: I have a kid at a great NYC public high, another in a great private school (currently middle school, but also high school). Not one kid at the private will be talking SUNY. The top kids will be looking at Yale, Dartmouth, or Middlebury. The middle kids Kenyon. The bottom kids Skidmore and Northeastern, and that’s as low as it goes, and they will all get in somewhere like that. Maybe one kid will go to SUNY. That’s not because SUNY is bad, that’s because of class, snobbery, and expectations, as well as grandpa’s inheritence. I am sure it is exactly the same in Long Island. Ok, maybe not all places, but many. Just because the kids aren’t going doesn’t make SUNYs less worthy of going. </p>
<p>Honestly, I don’t know how it will play out at the public. The kids there aren’t snobs. It’s incredibly diverse. Kids from all over the world. It will be interesting to see.</p>