How a Small North Carolina College Became a Magnet for Wealthy Students
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| Please post a gift link to the article. |
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I thought this was going to be about Elon. Also, this is propaganda. The head of High Point is all about propaganda. Very weird place. |
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You and the WSJ are fools.
High Point is not "college" it is play time. I would never hire from there. Only fools pay that much money for less than a HS education. |
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That was nonsense. When you read the article and see who they are defining as "Wall Street" it's a wealth manager at a satellite office of Morgan Stanley. I guess that is technically Wall Street...but it's not working in investment banking or trading or PE...or even the private client group in NYC. |
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| Someone post a link without a paywall, God damn it. |
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This felt too much like marketing material for High Point. What about its academics? What about the 4 year graduation rate?
Why spend money on High Point instead of getting your kid a country club membership? There seems to be no academic credibility to this school. |
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I strongly doubt half of wall street sends kids to this school. I'm not even sure it's accredited; it's certainly lost its accreditation a few times over the past 5 years. It's acceptance rate is very high. It seems it's more country club for conservatives versus an actual rigorous educational institution. |
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| I've never heard of High Point University. |
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| HPU is such an odd place. |
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| They do a good job marketing, but they've had issues with their accreditation and credit rating. I'd be cautious. |
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The children of Wall Street who go there are divided into two camps:
1. Middle and back office people who wear their Vineyard Vines vests and claim to be investment bankers but are miles removed from bringing in revenue and making decent salaries. 2. Children of wealthy bankers who spend their whole lives working, traveling, and playing golf and have zero involvement in raising their kids, so their kids end up being royally screwed up and poor students so end up at High Point because they can't get into anywhere better. It isn't "finishing school" - it is "reform school" where they straighten kids out. It is sad that WSJ published this factually questionable propaganda puff piece - they should be better than that. I wonder if some of their senior management also has kids there. |
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| High Point is no better than a social club. More time is spent on learning how to network and market yourself than actual learning. |
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Our neighbor’s daughter truly thrived there. Nice kid, but she struggled a lot in high school, mostly academically and a bit socially. Her parents had to provide a tons of hands-on support just to get her through it.
They were thrilled when she was willing to leave the nest for HPU - they weren’t sure she would be up for being so far from home. But HPU was perfect for her. All the support she needed and more. She graduated 4 or 5 years ago with a marketing job in NYC and has been doing great there. Excellent outcome given her slow start in high school. The other thing I’ll add is that her family is not super wealthy. UMC in a nice suburb (not DC area), public school, none of the extra bells and whistles. No internships or family connections, and part-time retail jobs during junior and senior years in HS. Nothing like the HPU stereotype. None of this is to say HPU is the right school for most kids. Or that it’s financially stable or sustainable. No clue there. But I saw for myself how great it was for this one kid who needed that type of extra support and cushioning for the first four years after high school. |
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Off/on topic oddity, DD went to a college fair recently and afterward the system they used sent her a list of schools she wanted to indicate interest in and send her info. Reps at the fair asked to scan her code before they finished talking, so this was helpful because she skipped some schools with long lines.
We looked at the list together and all the schools she met with were marked with one exception - High Point had been marked off. I was with her at the fair the entire time, she didn’t visit their table, and there is NO WAY she marked it off on her own because she opened the link with me. She was shocked it was marked. Some schools at the fair she’s already getting marketing from but hadn’t visited weren’t marked off, so it couldn’t be that. What gives? |