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Anonymous wrote:I've never even heard of it, and I'm one of those people who brought a horse to college (albeit to the University of CT). Clearly their marketing wasn't stellar.

Their former riding coach was the coach for the US Olympic Team. Dedicated riders knew Sweet Briar.

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I can't believe there would be any equestrians, especially on the east coast, who wouldn't have heard of Sweet Briar.

Yes, I too was surprised by the UCONN poster's ignorance. I'm from New England and have always known about Sweet Briar. Their success at vet school admissions is the only reason my daughter would have considered it. She would have brought her horse but, no, she is not a hunter/jumper princess.

We ride but are a Yale family. Sweetbriar means nothing to us.

We ride, but are a Mafia family. Yale is dead to us.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought I read that UVA was extending its transfer deadline to help.

So is Virginia Tech.

I'm glad to hear that. Sounds like the young women were really caught in a surprise.

It was always a finishing school for rich white girls who rode. I rode out in the hinterlands, and I'd heard of SBC. I wish I'd gone to a college like SBC or Goucher or Dickinson or UCT where I could ride, but I had no horse, no $$ for one, and a very unsupportive family re: riding, so I attended a far more selective college and hated every minute of it. If I could do it all over again, I'd love to have the choice to go to a school like Sweetbriar, and I'm sad that girls in the future won't have that choice.

Sounds like mismanagement killed the school. Beautiful campus. Sorry for the employees, students and alums. All that history, gone.

Mills College has also informed students, staff and alumni that they are extending invites to the students. It is a West Coast school though and kind of urban, so that might be too big of an adjustment for the pool of students at Sweet Briar.

Mount Holyoke has also offered to look at transfer student applications from Sweet Briar (I'm a Holyoke alum). They also sent out a note after Sweet Briar's announcement on enrollment numbers (2,000) and the endowment ($800 million)...Smith also had its largest applicant pool ever...I know the Seven Sisters (well five since Vassar went co-ed and Radcliffe got absorbed into Harvard) all seem to be doing fine.