A Visit to SUNY Geneseo

Last Weekend, I went to an Admitted Students Open House at SUNY Geneseo, with fellow ICE senior Zora Kosoff and our families. SUNY Geneseo is located in Geneseo, New York, just a 30-minute drive from Rochester. Geneseo is a small, historic town. On Geneseo’s main drag there are a few restaurants, a disproportionate number of hair salons, as well as a number of other private businesses. It’s a quiet town with friendly people.

 

SUNY Geneseo is known as one of the top SUNY schools in the system. It is often compared with private schools such as NYU, Boston College, and Cornell University. It has an enrollment of some 5,000 undergraduates, and a full time faculty of 241. Geneseo offers 54 undergraduate majors and many study-abroad opportunities. They recently built the $53 million Integrated Science Center on campus, which houses all of the sciences, including physics, the major that Geneseo is one of the nation’s top producers of. Geneseo is the most selective of the SUNYs, with an acceptance rate of 43%. The average SAT score of an applicant is 1330 (Math and Reading Sections Combined)

Integrated Science Center (ISC)

At the Open House, Zora and I met other admitted students and got a sense of what the student body was like. The two predominant populations of students come from Rochester and Long Island, with New York City close behind. The older students and tour guides were friendly and helpful. At first we wondered if they get bored being in such a small town, but were told that there is a free bus to Rochester, where students can shop, eat, and go to music events.

The following link gives a good description of Geneseo's assets. It is slightly old, but everything it says still applies. SUNY Geneseo is a great college for a great price.

http://www.kiplinger.com/article/college/T014-C000-S002-top-100-best-values-in-public-colleges.html