Our son (2013) used SUNY as his "plan B" and once he received his appointment to KP (and made sure all of the legwork was completed) SUNY was great about refunding his deposit. Our youngest son (who, admittedly, has a long time to think about college) is already interested in SUNY. (He probably wouldn't pass DODMERB for KP since he has asthma.)We were fortunate, in having registered with SUNY Maritime, they refunded all deposits/fees. Don't know if that would happen today.