<p>AdvicePlease - Great offer from St John’s - congrats to your D! Was she accepted for pharmacy? Just make sure she knows that she can’t transfer into their PharmD at a later date if she decides to start as a chem major! Several posters have found this out the hard way!</p>
<p>kayf - I don’t know that IS students are getting left behind over tuition money or not. I do know that some of the SUNY’s, like Geneseo, are definitely very tough to get into even for our top 10 grads and that there is definite overcrowding at schools like Cortland. I think the standard “in-state preference”, which so many public university systems use, is lacking in NY. I have never seen or heard of it in relation to SUNY anyway. </p>
<p>In my D’s case, she was surprised to find that her one SUNY option, UBuffalo, gives no preference for instate kids for the professional program she’s interested in (she was accepted in the pre-prof program and will have to reapply). This was not the case for her other public option, University of Kentucky, where she would also be considered instate and which has a stated acceptance rate (I think 85%) for instate. That was also the way things work at all the other public schools she looked at OOS - Rutgers, UNC, UConn, etc. Perhaps the thing to lobby for is a stated percentage/preference factor for instate applicants to ensure that they have acess to an affordable option close to home. As Governor Patterson is looking to add all kinds of new taxes to close the budget shortfall, taxpayers might as well ask for something in return!</p>