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Honestly, do not come to SUNY Purchase if you are not in the arts and getting into a conservatory. The campus itself is disgusting. On the outside everything is very dull and a lot of things look poorly maintained. On the inside things are old and many desks are written on. There are NO CUSTODIANS, using bathrooms in buildings is the most disgusting experience you'll have here. They're filty. The students are all a bit stand off-ish, they all think they are too artsy for their own good. Finally, this is not an academic breeding ground. I've found that you really don't have to be THAT smart or work THAT hard to get in here and certainly to stay in here. I feel decently challanged as a DOUBLE major who does ALL their work. Just choose another school.
Friendliness: B+, Collaboration/Competitive: F
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deciding to go to suny purchase has been one of the biggest mistakes of my life. I am a moderately bright student and even received a scholarship to attend the art and design school which is mostly unheard of for a suny and especially if you're instate. overall I found the education great, the teachers insightful and helpful and all around easy to approach with almost anything. Although, the school as a whole, should be renamed suny poorchoice since that is what you should expect when attending.
first of all, the school itself is known as one of THE most ugliest campuses in the U.S., and yes this statistic is correct, you can even check it out in the Princeton Review. The buildings which stick out as square decaying bricks on top of bricks are absolutely horrendous, even the insides of these buildings are completely unaccommodating. There is constantly construction, shutting down of buildings, fires, and always asbestos. In other words they really should tear everything down and start new. The surrounding city (white plains) is really no better. Even if you want to make a trip outside of campus you are stuck going to the mall on a weekly basis or to the movies which will get old by the 3rd to 4th week and expensive. The campus is also isolating and small, transportation is limited to the unreliable bus system or it's basically a "must" to bring your car. There is nothing designed on campus to keep you there unless you want to drink a lot of coffee and listen to elevator music at starbucks.
The facilities aren't even what makes this place unattendable, it's even the people who go here, and yes I am open minded and accepting but apparently a lot of others aren't. There are too many cliques within each conservatory, too many snobbish pretentious hipsters who have no time for others if you're not dressed in the latest shabby salvation army chic wear. So yes, if you're even the slightest bit preppy like me you WILL have a hard time fitting in and get stared at plenty for not meeting the ridiculous criteria. Drugs are also everywhere on campus and the only thing these people look forward to everyday is getting f***ed up to an extreme. Basically if you want to attend a "normal" like school, Purchase is not the place for you. And I'm actually in the process of transferring.
Also, the administration is very unhelpful with absolutely anything. So if you ever want a problem solved about anything, there's really no use in going to them. Maybe it might get solved but that will probably only happen months later.
So if you're looking for an ordinary campus with a healthy social life and want to actually have pride for your school...stay far, far away from suny poorchoice.
Education Quality: A-, Campus Aesthetics: F
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Sep 21 2009 1st Year Female -- Class 2012  
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The school is like most schools - with good, bad and indifferent fellow students and professors. So seek out good fellow students to be friends with and those professors who really love to teach and learn. I come from a small town where one cannot be himself but here you can be just about anything. I sometimes cross dress and it is not a big deal at all. Numbers of my friends, in different ways, felt liberated when coming here.
Education Quality: B, Campus Aesthetics: D+
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If you want to attend a college with a friendly atmosphere, and interesting, intelligent, unique students, avoid Purchase like a kick in the crotch. If you were an outcast in high school, and dream of attending a college where you’d be accepted for the very things that you were rejected for in high school, you will instead enjoy another four years of social rejection if you go to Purchase College.
You will recognize the kinds of students at Purchase as the people in your high school that you didn’t like. The average Purchase student can usually be considered shallow, vapid, and intellectually absent. I often find myself asking why most of the students here, who seem to have absolutely no interest in learning, are wasting their money going to college at all. The vast majority of the students here take drugs (no, not in a funny way) and drink heavily. Your options on the weekend are either to do the same or to be alone.
The students here are remarkably unfriendly. If you walk past someone, they’ll do anything not to make eye contact with or smile at you. Cliques here are as bad as in high school, with most students forgoing the creation of any relationship made after the first few months of freshman year.
If you are soon to attend college, I implore you to treat Purchase like a rabid animal and avoid it at all costs. Please don’t make the same mistake I did. If you currently attend this school, transfer.
Innovation: A, Friendliness: F
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