Tell me about American University

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Anonymous wrote:From my experience, there is a lot of stigma against schools with religious affiliations but you can get good education at good price and no one can force religion on you, at most you may have to take a class or two, which probably is a good chance to know what drives billions of religious folks. If you are getting merit or aid, go without worries.

You are on the wrong thread, since not one word of this applies remotely to AU.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you were to rank colleges solely based on percentage of classes under 30 and total number of classes offered (both of which I value highly), they would beat out every Ivy on the former and all but Cornell and Penn on the latter. It's pretty easy to beat them on one, but doing it on both is very rare--tough to be strong on both measures. The only other school I know of that beats so many of them is Northwestern.

Note: Columbia doesn't publish their Common Data Set, so not included. Their numbers seem more likely to be in line with the 5 American beats rather than Penn and Cornell.

You have got to be kidding! Anyone can walk in and it’s far too expensive for what you get!

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Anonymous wrote:I was quite biased against schools with religious affiliations until I saw undergrads from American, Pepperdine, Baylor, SMU, Duke, Trinity and Rhodes holding their ground against T20 grads in medical school. I’ll have no hesitance if my kids decides to go to one of these schools on a merit scholarship.

AU’s religious affiliation is meaningless in practice. The school charter requires the campus minister to be Methodist, that’s all. Campus faith events are nondenominational. And nothing to do with the Religion department.

+1 And it's an expensive college, not known to be generous with merit.

I went to AU on almost a full ride. They were pretty generous with me.

You are likely an exception. And old.

Maybe I am an exception but I'm not that old. Thanks, though.

I had a full ride to AU, too, so perhaps we are not all that rare.

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It ranks 90 for universities in USNWR. I think that says it all.

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Anonymous wrote:From my experience, there is a lot of stigma against schools with religious affiliations but you can get good education at good price and no one can force religion on you, at most you may have to take a class or two, which probably is a good chance to know what drives billions of religious folks. If you are getting merit or aid, go without worries.

You are on the wrong thread, since not one word of this applies remotely to AU.

I think they meant that for the Boston College thread.