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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They won't guarantee housing past the first year and Burlington has gotten really seedy and unsafe. They threw a lot of aid at my kid, extended deadlines, etc -no bite. Much easier to get in to than it has been..much less appealing. [/quote]

My kid was accepted to Eastman Conservatory at Rochester.  They received the max talent scholarship,  then the university kept throwing more money at them to bring it below in state tuition.

The conservatory itself was amazing.  But Rochester is a dump whose glory days ended in the early 1960s.  Dirty, boarded up storefronts, open crime during the day a half block from campus.

No thanks.

Give us a safe, clean, beautiful SEC campus any day over a depressing, dirty, run down crime ridden depleted city in one of those blue areas that everyone is fleeing from.

It's a shame, because the conservatory is amazing.  Just not amazing enough to balance out that it's in one of those formerly nice northeast small cities that no one, not even the liberals who created the mess, want to live in anymore.[/quote]

And you're sharing all of this in a thread about the University of Vermont... why, exactly?

It's interesting that enrollment is down at UVM because I've had multiple kids go through the college process (with somewhat similar interests) and only as my youngest has started to look at colleges has UVM really started to get popular at our DMV high school. My kid has toured and liked it very much; we know multiple (smart, friendly, engaged) students who've chosen to attend in the past few years and mine is seriously considering it. The COA would be less than larger flagships that are in less attractive locations with less interesting academic programs for my student's interest. Downtown Burlington is no seedier than parts of D.C. and its suburbs that we pass through regularly. And there's a lot about its setting to love.

Definitely still on our list, but I am interested to follow the news about the challenges it faces and appreciate the article posted by the OP.[/quote]

Yeah, I was responding to the poster I quoted who wrote this:

"... Burlington has gotten really seedy and unsafe. They threw a lot of aid at my kid, extended deadlines, etc -no bite. Much easier to get in to than it has been..much less appealing..."

Many of the less desirable schools are having the same issues for the same reason, and are throwing miney at kids trying to entice them to overlook the school location.

Those small liberal arts colleges in depressing dying crime ridden northeastern towns simply cannot compete with the booming, clean and safe SEC schools, midwest universities and southern universities, no matter how much money they pass out trying to entice kids to attend.[/quote]

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