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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They were e-mailing like nuts! So annoying, basically begged DD to apply, waved fees.  Who wants to switch one humid area for worse humid and bla college?[/quote]

Where did you learn to write? Yikes. [/quote]
On dcum. My fourth language, so don't care.[/quote]

Maybe you shouldn’t be talking trash about excellent colleges. [/quote]i

[b]Don’t get carried away......it’s a good college that has certainly improved over the years but it clearly has gamed its way up the rankings[/b].[/quote]

About the "gaming"...

If a school rides the wave of a higher ranking and it leads to more private funding (donor giving goes up), public funding increases (NIH funding etc),  attracts more high stats students so the student body improves, more investment into infrastructure (more impressive research facilities, housing)...WHY IS THIS A BAD THING?

Doesn't that mediocre school become world class? [/quote]

It’s hardly world class but I certainly can’t fault them for their motives butthere are many [b]unintended consequences of their strategy[/b]. [/quote]

You mean, as in your kid can't count on it as safety anymore?[/quote]

Lol....my children didn’t need safeties and had they not gotten into their ED choices they certainly wouldn’t have applied to Tulane. The unintended consequences is that when you effectively purchase high stat students through generous merit aid, you’re going to have an impact on diversity.[/quote]

You clearly don't know anything about Tulane. They offer a serious tuition break for in-state students even though they are a private institution. They are very committed to diversity and offering opportunities to students from Louisiana, especially those that are financially disadvantaged.

Something else to note. My DS had some serious medical issues their freshman year and I can't tell you how helpful and accommodating the school was to him. If not, I highly doubt he would have been able to go back sophomore year. A good friend's son had very similar issues at UMD and was basically told, that's your problem, figure it out. There was very little empathy at UMD. So glad my child didn't go there even though they were admitted.  [/quote]

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