Sweet Briar College - closing!

[Anonymous]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/155687329/Forbes-College-Financial-Grades-As-and-Bs


Here's what I don't understand. Forbes made this list dated July 2013 and Sweet Briar had an "A" ranking as a financial grade. How is that they are closing while many of the "C" and "D" rated schools are open?

I'm kind of wondering about the list and how it was formed.

[Anonymous]

I saw #SaveSweetBriar on facebook that the Vixens have raised almost $2M in pledges So far.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I've never even heard of it, and I'm one of those people who brought a horse to college (albeit to the University of CT). Clearly their marketing wasn't stellar.

Their former riding coach was the coach for the US Olympic Team. Dedicated riders knew Sweet Briar.

Always nice to see how someone here can take an innocuous post and be bitchy. Perhaps I wasn't a hunter/jumper rider? (I wasn't). Perhaps I'm significantly older?

Aaaah, that's it. A quick google brings up Mimi Wroten, who you're presumably referring to, is more than 10 yrs younger than I am.

Not the PP, but your post was a tad bitchy, don't you think? "Clearly their marketing wasn't stellar" is the reason you haven't heard of it? Anyone who rides on the east coast, regardless of age, has heard of it. I'm almost 50 and know of it.

No, not anyone who rides on the east coast has heard of it.

Just because you and others here have heard of it doesn't make it so. Clearly some of you are feeling that your toes were stepped on by PP who hadn't heard of your precious little school. Such a great bastion of equestrianism and higher learning that it's closed.

Good. Time for these types of places to go away.

Why are people putting the hurt on this school? So maybe it wasn't Harvard and rich kids went there, but does that mean that for a good number of students, it didn't provide an environment to grow and become a useful person?

[Anonymous]

I wish some journalist somewhere would dig up the real story. Its very odd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://www.scribd.com/doc/155687329/Forbes-College-Financial-Grades-As-and-Bs


Here's what I don't understand. Forbes made this list dated July 2013 and Sweet Briar had an "A" ranking as a financial grade. How is that they are closing while many of the "C" and "D" rated schools are open?

I'm kind of wondering about the list and how it was formed.

Yeah, doesn't add up.

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Anonymous wrote:I've never even heard of it, and I'm one of those people who brought a horse to college (albeit to the University of CT). Clearly their marketing wasn't stellar.

Their former riding coach was the coach for the US Olympic Team. Dedicated riders knew Sweet Briar.

Always nice to see how someone here can take an innocuous post and be bitchy. Perhaps I wasn't a hunter/jumper rider? (I wasn't). Perhaps I'm significantly older?

Aaaah, that's it. A quick google brings up Mimi Wroten, who you're presumably referring to, is more than 10 yrs younger than I am.

Not the PP, but your post was a tad bitchy, don't you think? "Clearly their marketing wasn't stellar" is the reason you haven't heard of it? Anyone who rides on the east coast, regardless of age, has heard of it. I'm almost 50 and know of it.

No, not anyone who rides on the east coast has heard of it.

Just because you and others here have heard of it doesn't make it so. Clearly some of you are feeling that your toes were stepped on by PP who hadn't heard of your precious little school. Such a great bastion of equestrianism and higher learning that it's closed.

Good. Time for these types of places to go away.

Why are people putting the hurt on this school? So maybe it wasn't Harvard and rich kids went there, but does that mean that for a good number of students, it didn't provide an environment to grow and become a useful person?

Are mini pony-owning Lily Pulitzer clones useful people? Wouldn't they all just go on to marry southern politicians and buy a lot of hairspray?

[Anonymous]

The Forbes story/grading was extremely superficial fluff. SBC had/has an endowment of over $80M. But SBC also carries material debt. And SBC's remaining endowment cash is largely purpose-restricted -- SBC had not gone to court when it needed to (08 or 09) to secure a "cy press" order to use restricted funds for general purposes. The remaining unrestricted SBC investible endowment wouldn't provide much of an operating subsidy. For something like 600 students, they recently had roughly 300+ employees, which seems unnecessary.

[Anonymous]

#thinkisforgirls

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Seems like it should have restructured. Maybe added some online equine programs (a barn Management degree etc.) that would have created an additional income stream. Offer a post grade high school year or even add a 9-12 girls boarding school that let you take college classes after 10th grade. That way you could graduate high school with 1-2 years of college credit. Much easier to recruit high school girls to a single sex environment. This would also give a pipeline of potential college students.

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Anonymous wrote:I've never even heard of it, and I'm one of those people who brought a horse to college (albeit to the University of CT). Clearly their marketing wasn't stellar.

Their former riding coach was the coach for the US Olympic Team. Dedicated riders knew Sweet Briar.

Always nice to see how someone here can take an innocuous post and be bitchy. Perhaps I wasn't a hunter/jumper rider? (I wasn't). Perhaps I'm significantly older?

Aaaah, that's it. A quick google brings up Mimi Wroten, who you're presumably referring to, is more than 10 yrs younger than I am.

Not the PP, but your post was a tad bitchy, don't you think? "Clearly their marketing wasn't stellar" is the reason you haven't heard of it? Anyone who rides on the east coast, regardless of age, has heard of it. I'm almost 50 and know of it.

No, not anyone who rides on the east coast has heard of it.

Just because you and others here have heard of it doesn't make it so. Clearly some of you are feeling that your toes were stepped on by PP who hadn't heard of your precious little school. Such a great bastion of equestrianism and higher learning that it's closed.

Good. Time for these types of places to go away.

Why are people putting the hurt on this school? So maybe it wasn't Harvard and rich kids went there, but does that mean that for a good number of students, it didn't provide an environment to grow and become a useful person?

Are mini pony-owning Lily Pulitzer clones useful people? Wouldn't they all just go on to marry southern politicians and buy a lot of hairspray?

You're not getting very much, are you? Awfully salty.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've never even heard of it, and I'm one of those people who brought a horse to college (albeit to the University of CT). Clearly their marketing wasn't stellar.

Their former riding coach was the coach for the US Olympic Team. Dedicated riders knew Sweet Briar.

Always nice to see how someone here can take an innocuous post and be bitchy. Perhaps I wasn't a hunter/jumper rider? (I wasn't). Perhaps I'm significantly older?

Aaaah, that's it. A quick google brings up Mimi Wroten, who you're presumably referring to, is more than 10 yrs younger than I am.

Not the PP, but your post was a tad bitchy, don't you think? "Clearly their marketing wasn't stellar" is the reason you haven't heard of it? Anyone who rides on the east coast, regardless of age, has heard of it. I'm almost 50 and know of it.

No, not anyone who rides on the east coast has heard of it.

Just because you and others here have heard of it doesn't make it so. Clearly some of you are feeling that your toes were stepped on by PP who hadn't heard of your precious little school. Such a great bastion of equestrianism and higher learning that it's closed.

Good. Time for these types of places to go away.

Why are people putting the hurt on this school? So maybe it wasn't Harvard and rich kids went there, but does that mean that for a good number of students, it didn't provide an environment to grow and become a useful person?

Are mini pony-owning Lily Pulitzer clones useful people? Wouldn't they all just go on to marry southern politicians and buy a lot of hairspray?

You sound like an idiot. People can actually study, earn degrees, and also ride. How is it any different at other campuses where there are student athletes? Why the huge chip on your shoulder and the gross generalization that these girls aren't serious students? Not everyone can go to Harvard - in fact, most don't. I imagine you didn't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems like it should have restructured. Maybe added some online equine programs (a barn Management degree etc.) that would have created an additional income stream. Offer a post grade high school year or even add a 9-12 girls boarding school that let you take college classes after 10th grade. That way you could graduate high school with 1-2 years of college credit. Much easier to recruit high school girls to a single sex environment. This would also give a pipeline of potential college students.

I could see this school being turned into a Madeira-like girls high school.

[Anonymous]

I thought I read that UVA was extending its transfer deadline to help.

[Anonymous]

It seems like the school was mismanaged. 300 some odd employees for 560 students. No wonder it ddn't have funds. I agree there is more to the story.

As for the high school angle, there actually is all-girls boarding and day school about a hour south of SBC that has a strong riding program that was kind of a feeder to SBC. So I don't know how that would play.

[Anonymous]

There are a few schools ( including my alma mater, Bryn Mawr) have extended their transfer application deadline to offer Sweet Briar women the chance to apply. Best to those who are having their education interrupteded.