SUNY Albany

Monday, February 2 was my first day of sabbatical. My first visit was to the admissions office at SUNY Albany. Marcia Hoyt-King, Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions, was kind enough to take time out of her busy schedule to show me the inner workings of their admissions decision making process. As you might expect from a school that receives well over 20,000 applications, the amount of paper was staggering. It was very informative and a great behind the scenes look at what goes on after students and counselors submit application materials to college.

SUNY Albany is a terrific college with a growing national reputation. It should certainly be thought of with the same reverance as SUNY Binghamton, Stonybrook, UBuffalo or Geneseo and is as selective or more so than many private colleges. This fact is sometimes lost on students since it is so close to home.