I did exactly that with the SUNY system. I could have probably gone to some "prestigious" place if I applied myself more, but I hated extracurriculars and all the other tertiary nonsense the applications seemed to expect of me. It should be about your educational and relevant (e.g. self taught programming demonstrated with projects) achievement, nothing else, IMO.

SUNY system worked out for me and I'm not embarrassed of it. They almost screwed up my graduation with a one credit discrepency in the requirements with the transfer. You have to be careful and do their job for them checking up on that, I've learned.