effect of tragedy on college?

[Anonymous]

Any campus anywhere in the world can have a tragic event happen. This is a ridiculous thread.

[Anonymous]

UVA had the shooting last year. I think number of applicants will be just as high.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think PP's are assuming OP wants to swoop in and use lower applicant rates to boost their kid's chances of admission, which is incredibly cynical and weird.

NP. Well OP was the one musing about whether kids would leave and applications would drop at a school they were considering. There were lots of wonderings that could have been included in OP's post, and that was what they picked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think PP's are assuming OP wants to swoop in and use lower applicant rates to boost their kid's chances of admission, which is incredibly cynical and weird.

NP. Well OP was the one musing about whether kids would leave and applications would drop at a school they were considering. There were lots of wonderings that could have been included in OP's post, and that was what they picked.

Right-- in the sense would that school be harmed by folks leaving or drop in applications? How does a tragedy effect a school?

Anyway, it's good to hear that Virginia Tech wasn't set back. I guess people know that tragedy can happen anywhere.

Flip side is that nowhere is truly safe, especially in America. Too many AK-15s.

[Anonymous]

My sense is that if people have Bowdoin in a bucket of other similar colleges (Colby, Dartmouth, middlebury) and they are planning to pick one it won’t be bowdoin. This year they may be likely to lose out to other similar schools for students.

[Anonymous]

This didn’t happen on the campus, so I think it is unlikely to really affect anything

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My sense is that if people have Bowdoin in a bucket of other similar colleges (Colby, Dartmouth, middlebury) and they are planning to pick one it won’t be bowdoin. This year they may be likely to lose out to other similar schools for students.

Bates is in Lewiston, not Bowdoin. And most people looking at the Maine colleges already know that Lewiston hs long been a scary mess.

[Anonymous]

The shooter was from Bowdoin (the town.) Bowdoin College is in Brunswick. Bates is in Lewiston where the shootings took place. All these towns are within about 30 mins of each other. Both schools were under lockdowns until last night; neither one had any student casualties (Bates had one employee who was wounded but expected to survive.) Both are wonderful schools and any kid would be lucky to go to either one.

As a Bates parent I can say that the students AND families really seemed to rally around the school and the community. It was a scary couple of days but even the parent FB page (which was initially a little frantic) is filled with gratitude and tributes to Bates for keeping our kids safe. We all realize that the shootings must have been even more traumatic for Bates staff since this is their community.

And to the schmuck PP who is dunking on Lewiston after this horrific tragedy, please get some help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The shooter was from Bowdoin (the town.) Bowdoin College is in Brunswick. Bates is in Lewiston where the shootings took place. All these towns are within about 30 mins of each other. Both schools were under lockdowns until last night; neither one had any student casualties (Bates had one employee who was wounded but expected to survive.) Both are wonderful schools and any kid would be lucky to go to either one.

As a Bates parent I can say that the students AND families really seemed to rally around the school and the community. It was a scary couple of days but even the parent FB page (which was initially a little frantic) is filled with gratitude and tributes to Bates for keeping our kids safe. We all realize that the shootings must have been even more traumatic for Bates staff since this is their community.

And to the schmuck PP who is dunking on Lewiston after this horrific tragedy, please get some help.

Thank you. Well written. I’m another Bates parent as well.