<p>modestmelody. I never said that the SUNY system didn’t educate a lot of New Yorkers. I just said NY and most of the NE never fully funded a top notch university system with a strong flagship school. Cornell is only partially public in certain areas and cannot really be considered a state school. I also don’t agree with the assumption that most students would go to private schools if the publics were more expensive. The top private schools are very hard to get into and there just aren’t enough spaces to handle the additional load.</p>