New York state Sen. John Liu was fortunate to graduate from the State University of New York at Binghamton, earning a degree in mathematical physics.
Starting next year, someone like him may not even get into SUNY Binghamton.
The problem?
He attended the Bronx High School of Science, the highly competitive, furiously fast-paced public school that, admitting students only by exam, graduated an amazing nine Nobel Prize winners and counts two Regeneron Science Talent Search finalists this year.
The top 10% of Bronx Science graduates would be quickly scooped up by the nation’s top-50 universities or liberal-arts colleges.
But a Bronx Science student in the other 90% could still be eagerly admitted to a very fine school like SUNY Binghamton (ranked 73 by U.S. News & World Report) and train his mind in awesome majors like mathematical physics.
Well, no longer.
Gov. Hochul announced in her State of the State address that every New York high-school student graduating in the top 10% of the class will get automatic admission to SUNY and the City University of New York.