The beginning of the end for Marymount University

[Anonymous]

It’s not an attractive campus, even with the Blue Goose gone.

[Anonymous]

Do they give the financial information by school or just as one entity?

[Anonymous]

I got 6 mailers from them today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s not an attractive campus, even with the Blue Goose gone.

Oh, it’s really lovely. I was a commuter student there years ago (English and History…RIP liberal arts) and loved it. I even liked Blue U. It had character.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s not an attractive campus, even with the Blue Goose gone.

I like the school but frankly we are about to see huge consolidation of schools.

A lot of non-selective colleges are going to close and there is really no stopping it.

I am hoping that more selective schools will pick up some campuses and run a second tier school for their waitlist and allow them top transfer to their main campus after their freshman year or something like that.

Kind of like UVA does with UVA wise.

[Anonymous]

Are they losing money because I stopped sending my kids to their summer arts camp? (Camp was great; kids just aged out.)

It really could be a great high school space for Arlington.

Seemed like a nice, small school to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are they losing money because I stopped sending my kids to their summer arts camp? (Camp was great; kids just aged out.)

It really could be a great high school space for Arlington.

Seemed like a nice, small school to me.

It'll end up being an enclave of apartment buildings and townhouses, maybe built around Trader Joe's, to give North Arlington something approaching "affordable housing."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s not an attractive campus, even with the Blue Goose gone.

I like the school but frankly we are about to see huge consolidation of schools.

A lot of non-selective colleges are going to close and there is really no stopping it.

I am hoping that more selective schools will pick up some campuses and run a second tier school for their waitlist and allow them top transfer to their main campus after their freshman year or something like that.

Kind of like UVA does with UVA wise.

I see no downside to this. We keep hearing that there are "more qualified applicants than we can admit, sorry you're rejected". Then why not find a place for these students at these private, selective colleges? Let them prove it in an auxiliary campus they can do the work, then let them in. Emory created a whole campus for this reason, Northeastern has their NU.in. USC has their Trojan Transfer. But many more state universities do it too, like the Univ. of California schools, UConn has their branch campuses, Penn State has their branches and allows transfers in. Michigan has guaranteed pathways. Univ Florida uses Santa Fe Community College.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s not an attractive campus, even with the Blue Goose gone.

I like the school but frankly we are about to see huge consolidation of schools.

A lot of non-selective colleges are going to close and there is really no stopping it.

I am hoping that more selective schools will pick up some campuses and run a second tier school for their waitlist and allow them top transfer to their main campus after their freshman year or something like that.

Kind of like UVA does with UVA wise.

I see no downside to this. We keep hearing that there are "more qualified applicants than we can admit, sorry you're rejected". Then why not find a place for these students at these private, selective colleges? Let them prove it in an auxiliary campus they can do the work, then let them in. Emory created a whole campus for this reason, Northeastern has their NU.in. USC has their Trojan Transfer. But many more state universities do it too, like the Univ. of California schools, UConn has their branch campuses, Penn State has their branches and allows transfers in. Michigan has guaranteed pathways. Univ Florida uses Santa Fe Community College.

Emory didn't create a whole campus. It's a common misconception on this forum. That is just emory college-the literal origin of the institution and the liberal arts college the school started as. Most other schools like Duke (who had trinity college) just didn't keep theirs.

[Anonymous]

The university is actually doing well but the debt is a problem. S&Ps recent analysis this summer was more favorable and "stable."

They are managing it as best they can and indeed growing. It's really a shame because they are involved in the community, provide a great education to a lot of local students (and traditional students) and have excellent relationships with local employers. There are some particularly strong programs.

Their program closures were controversial but in hindsight probably a very smart move. That period was nasty, and while the articles up thread are true, this thread sounds as if it could have been started by a bitter ex-employee. There are many.

It doesn't seem like they are closing or are in immediate danger of closing at all. But these days you never know.

[Anonymous]

If it's subsumed into another school, I hope the other school is Catholic. We love going to Mass at Marymount on Sunday nights

[Anonymous]

https://www.catholicherald.com/article/local/largest-class-in-marymounts-history/

Well, this article says they just enrolled the largest class ever. Hopefully things will continue to go in the right direction. The beginning of seeing a return on their investment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are they losing money because I stopped sending my kids to their summer arts camp? (Camp was great; kids just aged out.)

It really could be a great high school space for Arlington.

Seemed like a nice, small school to me.

It'll end up being an enclave of apartment buildings and townhouses, maybe built around Trader Joe's, to give North Arlington something approaching "affordable housing."

What a waste that would be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s not an attractive campus, even with the Blue Goose gone.

I like the school but frankly we are about to see huge consolidation of schools.

A lot of non-selective colleges are going to close and there is really no stopping it.

I am hoping that more selective schools will pick up some campuses and run a second tier school for their waitlist and allow them top transfer to their main campus after their freshman year or something like that.

Kind of like UVA does with UVA wise.

I see no downside to this. We keep hearing that there are "more qualified applicants than we can admit, sorry you're rejected". Then why not find a place for these students at these private, selective colleges? Let them prove it in an auxiliary campus they can do the work, then let them in. Emory created a whole campus for this reason, Northeastern has their NU.in. USC has their Trojan Transfer. But many more state universities do it too, like the Univ. of California schools, UConn has their branch campuses, Penn State has their branches and allows transfers in. Michigan has guaranteed pathways. Univ Florida uses Santa Fe Community College.

Because a schools prestige is attacked for doing things like this. Many posters use Oxford college against Emory as a way to attack it when comparing it to peers like Vandy, Rice, WashU, Georgetown etc. Doint the right thing comes at a cost.

[Anonymous]

This is one of the local schools my daughter is applying to because her boyfriend is at college in the area. I normally would not encourage that, but we are happy to have her live at home and he's a great kid and she has a good part time job that she'd like to continue that could turn into something bigger once she has a college degree. I found this:

https://disclosure.spglobal.com/ratings/en/regulatory/article/-/view/type/HTML/id/3205029

One issue is keeping up enrollment. I know they had a big recent enrollment, but in a year or so we will be at the end of the mini baby boom generation Zers and there is a big drop in the number of college age students who will be applying. Is it worth the money? We live in Arlington so it's super convenient and she wouldn't be commuting too much between that and her job, but could they go under the next 4 years?