Dillon Blatt is Perfect at SUNY Binghamton
Dillon Blatt’s freshman year at college was perfect. The Huntington High School Class of 2009 alum earned a 4.0 grade point average at SUNY College at Oneonta last fall and garnered another 4.0 in the spring at SUNY Binghamton.
How did the Huntington grad happen to attend two schools in one year? “I enjoyed SUNY Oneonta, but I was taken off of the wait-list and offered guaranteed acceptance as a transfer student to Binghamton,” Mr. Blatt explained.
It really was a perfect year.” At Oneonta, I received the Provost’s Award for Academic Excellence,” Mr. Blatt said. “At Binghamton, I made the Dean’s List. I also received the Barnes & Noble scholarship for academic success through Binghamton University.”
As a high school senior, Mr. Blatt earned the prestigious and lucrative Huntington Lions Club scholarship. Prior to each college semester, he’s attended the club’s dinner ceremonies to receive the latest installment in the $5,000 scholarship. He’s a well-spoken, well-versed young man who fits right in with the Lions Club members.
Mr. Blatt’s first semester at Binghamton included courses in writing, Pop, Rock & Soul, Markets, Ethics & Law and Modern World History. “This past spring semester I applied as an intra-university transfer student from the Harpur College of Arts & Sciences at Binghamton to the highly regarded School of Management,” he said. “I was very excited to receive an acceptance letter earlier in the summer.”
Binghamton’s School of Management was ranked 35th overall and 12th among business schools at public universities in Business Week magazine’s 2010 rankings of undergraduate programs.
“I plan on taking an accounting course this fall in order to help me decide if I’d like to major in management or accounting,” Mr. Blatt said. “I’m also going to take a few courses in order to fulfill the School of Management’s core requirements. These include computer science, statistics, and macroeconomic theory.”
Mr. Blatt was an accomplished student at Huntington High School, earning Advanced Placement Scholar with Distinction honors. The extensive AP coursework he undertook paid off as he headed to Oneonta with 22 college credits in hand. He held down membership in various high school clubs, volunteered at a Huntington-based homeless shelter and at the Safe Halloween program for elementary school students, tutored ESL students, raised money for a family that saw its house burn down and pitched in at the blood drive.
“Now that I feel comfortable at Binghamton, I would also like to find a part-time job, and become involved in a few clubs this spring,” Mr. Blatt said. “I also played intramural softball with a bunch of my friends at school and overall, I really had a lot of fun this past spring.”
Can his sophomore year be perfect, too? Mr. Blatt has a way of making believers out of all who come in contact with him.
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