ALBANY, N.Y. — Three regional SUNY campuses are among the nine initial schools participating in the state’s launch of a program to help the “highest-achieving” New York high-school seniors gain admission and enroll at select SUNY campuses.
It’s called the SUNY Top 10% Promise program, and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Marcy, and SUNY Oneonta are among the first group of schools taking part.
The additional six campuses include the University at Albany; University at Buffalo; SUNY Geneseo; SUNY New Paltz; Purchase College, and Stony Brook University, the office of Gov. Kathy Hochul said in Thursday’s announcement. Hochul first announced this plan as a part of her 2024 State of the State address.
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The Top 10% Promise is a direct-admissions program that automatically grants acceptance to graduating high school students whose GPAs (grade-point averages) are in the top 10 percent of their class. They also must meet specific academic-readiness criteria to at least one “selective, world-class SUNY campus,” per Hochul’s office.
The program will take effect for select high-school seniors preparing to enroll for the Fall 2025 semester.
Students in all New York State school districts will be eligible to participate when the SUNY Top 10% Promise is fully in place.
In the first year, 68 school districts (and individual charter schools) from across the state were invited to participate based on serving rural, urban, and suburban communities with high levels of adversity or enrolling a significant share of students from low-income backgrounds.
“There is a place at SUNY for every New Yorker, and The SUNY Top 10% Promise will make it even easier for our highest-achieving high school students — particularly those from low-income backgrounds — to discover SUNY’s extraordinary value and academic excellence,” SUNY Chancellor John King Jr. contended in the state’s announcement.
