St. Mary's College of Md still taking applications?

[Anonymous]

If a kid is interested in adding an application to St. Mary's, is it too late this year? Looks like the deadline just passed... except they say they accept some applications past the deadline on a "space available" rolling basis. Anyone have experience with their kid getting in this late?
http://www.smcm.edu/admissions/how-to-apply/first-year-students/

[Anonymous]

Call them directly. Most likely they will take your DD. They are still badly under-enrolled and need $.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Call them directly. Most likely they will take your DD. They are still badly under-enrolled and need $.

How do you know this? That they are under enrolled and need $.

[Anonymous]

Good, thanks! Looks like a great school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Call them directly. Most likely they will take your DD. They are still badly under-enrolled and need $.

How do you know this? That they are under enrolled and need $.

You didn't know? Do some research yourself. It's pretty well known facts for years - at least 10 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Call them directly. Most likely they will take your DD. They are still badly under-enrolled and need $.

How do you know this? That they are under enrolled and need $.

You didn't know? Do some research yourself. It's pretty well known facts for years - at least 10 years.

I'm not sure how long you can keep bringing up such old news. Yes, St. Mary's had enrollment issues years ago. No, they are not having financial issues and in fact are doing very well with new buildings, a new stadium, and new programs. Their enrollment has been relatively steady for the past few years but they ARE currently trying to increase enrollment to closer to 2000 students.

[Anonymous]

Call and ask.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Call them directly. Most likely they will take your DD. They are still badly under-enrolled and need $.

How do you know this? That they are under enrolled and need $.

You didn't know? Do some research yourself. It's pretty well known facts for years - at least 10 years.

I know they had an off year a few years back, but I haven’t read about any long term issues regarding dollars or enrollment. Happy to read any articles about any long term issues. Please share.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Call them directly. Most likely they will take your DD. They are still badly under-enrolled and need $.

How do you know this? That they are under enrolled and need $.

You didn't know? Do some research yourself. It's pretty well known facts for years - at least 10 years.

I know they had an off year a few years back, but I haven’t read about any long term issues regarding dollars or enrollment. Happy to read any articles about any long term issues. Please share.

Please google. WashPo's followed St. Mary's for years

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Call them directly. Most likely they will take your DD. They are still badly under-enrolled and need $.

How do you know this? That they are under enrolled and need $.

You didn't know? Do some research yourself. It's pretty well known facts for years - at least 10 years.

I know they had an off year a few years back, but I haven’t read about any long term issues regarding dollars or enrollment. Happy to read any articles about any long term issues. Please share.

Please google. WashPo's followed St. Mary's for years

Maybe you mean this article?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/01/31/so-many-great-teachers-go-unrecognized-this-professor-just-got-whopping-award/

"So many great teachers go unrecognized. But this professor just got a whopping award.

By Susan Svrluga
Jan. 31, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. EST

Bola Fadojutimi had just finished the run-through of the final project in her freshman English class, and .?.?. it needed work. The assignment proved daunting: Take a Shakespearean sonnet and turn it into an original play, set in modern times, using the original text. Then perform it.

It was nearly too late to make changes. But the professor, Jennifer Cognard-Black, wasn’t dismissive. There was a way, the professor explained, that the students could meet her high expectations.

That night, Fadojutimi and another student labored to transform their play. After the performance at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Fadojutimi was elated. She knew their play had remained true to the poem while imbued with its own power. She savored the pumpkin-chocolate-chip bread Cognard-Black baked for the class. “It was the happiest thing,” Fadojutimi said.

Cognard-Black does this to people — raises them up, by expecting them to rise. Earlier this month, those efforts were recognized on a national stage: The English professor was honored with the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching, a prize given every other year by Baylor University that was created by a graduate grateful for the impact teachers had on his life.

For a profession that can feel frustratingly invisible, and for a small public honors college tucked away in a lovely but remote part of the state, the spotlight is welcome.

And it’s an award with heft: It grants $265,000 to Cognard-Black and $35,000 to support teaching in the English department at St. Mary’s.

“I’m over the moon about it!” Cognard-Black said, delighted to have teaching, and her liberal arts college, honored in such a big way.

Students light up with her, said Michael R. Wick, provost and dean of faculty of St. Mary’s.

“JCB is a type of professor I’ve honestly never had before,” said Marie Keller, a senior from Cumberland, Md., using the nickname students have for Cognard-Black. She was intimidating, because her standards were so high. Keller’s first paper came back covered with ink, she said, drenched with critiques. But Cognard-Black is so warm and supportive and joyful that students come to understand the expectations are a compliment, not a threat.

She’s creative, upending traditional teaching methods and immersing students in new experiences. She’s enthusiastic and open, making clear that she’s learning alongside her students.

She shares her rejection letters. She laughs a lot. And she brings food. A whole lot of eating happens in her classes, whether pumpkin bread to celebrate final projects, candy from the bowl that gets passed around when discussions get too heavy, or spaghetti marinara a student might make in a course examining the role food plays in literature and culture.

In her first class, Keller said, Cognard-Black arrived with a loaf of challah bread, which they broke around the table to launch a discussion about sharing food and the ways it connects people. “I hadn’t seen a professor so excited to talk about something before,” Keller said.

Food is history, and a way to articulate our shared cultural memory, Cognard-Black said. Students get excited thinking about it in a new way: “This isn’t just me slicing a tomato and eating it. I’m thinking of the origin of a tomato,” she said, and the way it was seen by different cultures — as poisonous, as an aphrodisiac, as a threat.

They talk about eating disorders, and about people who don’t have enough to eat. Students volunteer at a soup kitchen and a farm near the rural Southern Maryland campus. They visit a chocolate manufacturer. They cook for their classmates.

Tuajuanda C. Jordan, the president of St. Mary’s, went to the Cherry Award lecture that Cognard-Black gave on campus when she was named a finalist. It was late in the evening, and Jordan, a biochemist by training, was not drawn to the topic of food in literature. “I was absolutely floored,” Jordan said, by how immersive the experience was. “It was captivating.”

Cognard-Black said she had powerful mentors from her earliest moments — although she may not have always appreciated that.

She began teaching despite herself. “With my parents both having PhDs in English and being English teachers, it was the very last thing I wanted to do,” she said, laughing.

She took a roundabout route through her education, but even in graduate school, she continued to enjoy her English classes so much that she “sidled over to get a degree in creative writing,” and eventually a doctorate in 19th-century Anglo American literature. “It was in the blood,” she said.

“My mother would do these crazy things with her students all the time, getting them up and moving,” pushing and bending the boundaries of the genres they were reading, she said. That’s the kind of thing that inspired Cognard-Black to be creative. Sometimes that means asking her students to take passages from an essay and convey the ideas in a single cell of a graphic novel. Other times, it’s learning about poetic meter by waltzing to a Dr. Seuss book read aloud.

At no part of her life, she said, was she without inspiring teachers, from her childhood, to the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley who taught her at Iowa State University, to her colleagues at St. Mary’s.

She loves that teaching is never the same because students are always bringing new ideas. That’s also its biggest challenge, she said.

After years of iPhones, “people’s brains are wired differently now,” she said. “I can’t take for granted I’ll have people in my classroom that have grown up reading, or even storytelling in the way that I think of. That’s good for me,” she said, “but it’s hard,” as she works to maintain the traditional rigor but adapt to new ways of thinking. “Part of what is powerful about literature is it evolves, and it has to evolve.”

The Cherry award includes a semesterlong residency at Baylor, so Cognard-Black will teach there in the fall. But first, she’s off to Europe, where she’ll be teaching this spring as a Senior Fulbright Scholar in American Culture at the University of Amsterdam.

The award is jaw-dropping financially, Cognard-Black said, but just as powerful symbolically: “The Cherry award makes teaching visible — it says teaching matters. It reminds the nation that each and every one of us is indebted to those mentors. In whatever way — in a classroom, on a soccer field, in a garden, in a kitchen, in a garage. Someone taught you something, and what they taught you changed you utterly.

“Robert Frost said, ‘I am not a teacher, but an awakener.’ It’s good to be reminded that teaching awakens us. It wakes us up and really has the capacity to transform us.”

She paused, and laughed. “I hope that’s not too schmaltzy. I do believe it!” "

[Anonymous]

St. Mary's is a college that's always punched above its weight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Call them directly. Most likely they will take your DD. They are still badly under-enrolled and need $.

How do you know this? That they are under enrolled and need $.

You didn't know? Do some research yourself. It's pretty well known facts for years - at least 10 years.

I know they had an off year a few years back, but I haven’t read about any long term issues regarding dollars or enrollment. Happy to read any articles about any long term issues. Please share.

Please google. WashPo's followed St. Mary's for years

Maybe you mean this article?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/01/31/so-many-great-teachers-go-unrecognized-this-professor-just-got-whopping-award/

"So many great teachers go unrecognized. But this professor just got a whopping award.

By Susan Svrluga
Jan. 31, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. EST

Bola Fadojutimi had just finished the run-through of the final project in her freshman English class, and .?.?. it needed work. The assignment proved daunting: Take a Shakespearean sonnet and turn it into an original play, set in modern times, using the original text. Then perform it.

It was nearly too late to make changes. But the professor, Jennifer Cognard-Black, wasn’t dismissive. There was a way, the professor explained, that the students could meet her high expectations.

That night, Fadojutimi and another student labored to transform their play. After the performance at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Fadojutimi was elated. She knew their play had remained true to the poem while imbued with its own power. She savored the pumpkin-chocolate-chip bread Cognard-Black baked for the class. “It was the happiest thing,” Fadojutimi said.

Cognard-Black does this to people — raises them up, by expecting them to rise. Earlier this month, those efforts were recognized on a national stage: The English professor was honored with the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching, a prize given every other year by Baylor University that was created by a graduate grateful for the impact teachers had on his life.

For a profession that can feel frustratingly invisible, and for a small public honors college tucked away in a lovely but remote part of the state, the spotlight is welcome.

And it’s an award with heft: It grants $265,000 to Cognard-Black and $35,000 to support teaching in the English department at St. Mary’s.

“I’m over the moon about it!” Cognard-Black said, delighted to have teaching, and her liberal arts college, honored in such a big way.

Students light up with her, said Michael R. Wick, provost and dean of faculty of St. Mary’s.

“JCB is a type of professor I’ve honestly never had before,” said Marie Keller, a senior from Cumberland, Md., using the nickname students have for Cognard-Black. She was intimidating, because her standards were so high. Keller’s first paper came back covered with ink, she said, drenched with critiques. But Cognard-Black is so warm and supportive and joyful that students come to understand the expectations are a compliment, not a threat.

She’s creative, upending traditional teaching methods and immersing students in new experiences. She’s enthusiastic and open, making clear that she’s learning alongside her students.

She shares her rejection letters. She laughs a lot. And she brings food. A whole lot of eating happens in her classes, whether pumpkin bread to celebrate final projects, candy from the bowl that gets passed around when discussions get too heavy, or spaghetti marinara a student might make in a course examining the role food plays in literature and culture.

In her first class, Keller said, Cognard-Black arrived with a loaf of challah bread, which they broke around the table to launch a discussion about sharing food and the ways it connects people. “I hadn’t seen a professor so excited to talk about something before,” Keller said.

Food is history, and a way to articulate our shared cultural memory, Cognard-Black said. Students get excited thinking about it in a new way: “This isn’t just me slicing a tomato and eating it. I’m thinking of the origin of a tomato,” she said, and the way it was seen by different cultures — as poisonous, as an aphrodisiac, as a threat.

They talk about eating disorders, and about people who don’t have enough to eat. Students volunteer at a soup kitchen and a farm near the rural Southern Maryland campus. They visit a chocolate manufacturer. They cook for their classmates.

Tuajuanda C. Jordan, the president of St. Mary’s, went to the Cherry Award lecture that Cognard-Black gave on campus when she was named a finalist. It was late in the evening, and Jordan, a biochemist by training, was not drawn to the topic of food in literature. “I was absolutely floored,” Jordan said, by how immersive the experience was. “It was captivating.”

Cognard-Black said she had powerful mentors from her earliest moments — although she may not have always appreciated that.

She began teaching despite herself. “With my parents both having PhDs in English and being English teachers, it was the very last thing I wanted to do,” she said, laughing.

She took a roundabout route through her education, but even in graduate school, she continued to enjoy her English classes so much that she “sidled over to get a degree in creative writing,” and eventually a doctorate in 19th-century Anglo American literature. “It was in the blood,” she said.

“My mother would do these crazy things with her students all the time, getting them up and moving,” pushing and bending the boundaries of the genres they were reading, she said. That’s the kind of thing that inspired Cognard-Black to be creative. Sometimes that means asking her students to take passages from an essay and convey the ideas in a single cell of a graphic novel. Other times, it’s learning about poetic meter by waltzing to a Dr. Seuss book read aloud.

At no part of her life, she said, was she without inspiring teachers, from her childhood, to the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley who taught her at Iowa State University, to her colleagues at St. Mary’s.

She loves that teaching is never the same because students are always bringing new ideas. That’s also its biggest challenge, she said.

After years of iPhones, “people’s brains are wired differently now,” she said. “I can’t take for granted I’ll have people in my classroom that have grown up reading, or even storytelling in the way that I think of. That’s good for me,” she said, “but it’s hard,” as she works to maintain the traditional rigor but adapt to new ways of thinking. “Part of what is powerful about literature is it evolves, and it has to evolve.”

The Cherry award includes a semesterlong residency at Baylor, so Cognard-Black will teach there in the fall. But first, she’s off to Europe, where she’ll be teaching this spring as a Senior Fulbright Scholar in American Culture at the University of Amsterdam.

The award is jaw-dropping financially, Cognard-Black said, but just as powerful symbolically: “The Cherry award makes teaching visible — it says teaching matters. It reminds the nation that each and every one of us is indebted to those mentors. In whatever way — in a classroom, on a soccer field, in a garden, in a kitchen, in a garage. Someone taught you something, and what they taught you changed you utterly.

“Robert Frost said, ‘I am not a teacher, but an awakener.’ It’s good to be reminded that teaching awakens us. It wakes us up and really has the capacity to transform us.”

She paused, and laughed. “I hope that’s not too schmaltzy. I do believe it!” "

No. Why are you so insecure? I wasn't saying anything bad about the school. Don't be afraid of facts. FACTS DO MATTER.

[Anonymous]

My son was accepted into a space available slot for Towson. They sent out a similar email about still accepting applications beyond the 1/15 submit date. We actually heard back more quickly from them then other schools.

Definitely apply if she's even slightly interested.

[Anonymous]

OP just call them and get your DD to apply. Better to get info from there rather than this nest of vipers.

[Anonymous]

Admission rate of 80%, I am sure your DD won't have any problems.