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Anonymous wrote:Aren’t places like Lafayette and Gettysburg super pricey?

Depends on your financial circumstances and your kid’s appeal to the school. Amazes me how people just don’t get this.

Lafayette has little merit aid; Gettysburg offers a lot.

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Anonymous wrote:Occidental

No. Financial difficulties. Moody downgraded it. Google it.

We're talking about the college, not the oil company.

Not PP, but colleges do have credit ratings which are very important to them. In this case, google says:

New York, September 26, 2019 -- Moody's Investors Service has revised the outlook for Occidental College (CA) to negative from stable. Concurrently, we have assigned a Aa3 rating on the proposed Taxable Bonds, Series 2019 and affirmed the Aa3 ratings on approximately $84 million of rated debt

Precisely my point. Moody's does rate schools and Occcidental's was downgraded Dec. 2019 to negative. I'm an alum. Since the coronavirus pandemic hit, I've been asked three times to send money in to tide it over. Oxy's situation is so poor that it cancelled the football season and team two years ago for lack of funds. Its endowment is at a low of 434M (or was before the pandemic). It's sister college, Pomona, which started around the same time and once upon a time drew from the same high school applicant base is 2.35 billion. That's why Moody's downgraded it.

Yet irrelevant to this thread. Occidental is growing in popularity, has had record applications in recent years, and is popular in the DC area.

A) it is not growing in popularity. It has lost its reputation.
B) It has become very easy to get in to with a a selectivity rate of 42%.
C) every single college in America can claim "record number" of applications because students now apply to 15 instead of 5 schools.
D) Oxy is on the "will struggle financially" list.

Wouldn’t say “very easy”- there are schools with 80%+ acceptance rate.

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No. Financial difficulties. Moody downgraded it. Google it.

If Oxy was good enough for Obama, a Nobel prize winner and a one-time Washington politician, it’s good enough for your kids.

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No. Financial difficulties. Moody downgraded it. Google it.

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Anonymous wrote:Occidental

No. Financial difficulties. Moody downgraded it. Google it.

We're talking about the college, not the oil company.

Not PP, but colleges do have credit ratings which are very important to them. In this case, google says:

New York, September 26, 2019 -- Moody's Investors Service has revised the outlook for Occidental College (CA) to negative from stable. Concurrently, we have assigned a Aa3 rating on the proposed Taxable Bonds, Series 2019 and affirmed the Aa3 ratings on approximately $84 million of rated debt

Precisely my point. Moody's does rate schools and Occcidental's was downgraded Dec. 2019 to negative. I'm an alum. Since the coronavirus pandemic hit, I've been asked three times to send money in to tide it over. Oxy's situation is so poor that it cancelled the football season and team two years ago for lack of funds. Its endowment is at a low of 434M (or was before the pandemic). It's sister college, Pomona, which started around the same time and once upon a time drew from the same high school applicant base is 2.35 billion. That's why Moody's downgraded it.

Yet irrelevant to this thread. Occidental is growing in popularity, has had record applications in recent years, and is popular in the DC area.

A) it is not growing in popularity. It has lost its reputation.
B) It has become very easy to get in to with a a selectivity rate of 42%.
C) every single college in America can claim "record number" of applications because students now apply to 15 instead of 5 schools.
D) Oxy is on the "will struggle financially" list.

Wouldn’t say “very easy”- there are schools with 80%+ acceptance rate.

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of kids who are very smart, middle or lower middle class and don’t want to go far away to college are choosing GMU. It really appeals to kids who want/need to be near their families in NoVA.

Florida, South Carolina, Clemson, and Alabama have been popular with kids here for years. The next wave of popularity in Southern schools will be Tennessee, Auburn, Florida State, and UCF.

Not Auburn.

Alabama isn't popular from here either. Why anyone would send their kid out of state to Alabama besides football??

Popular is Wisconsin, Indiana, College of Charleston, University of South Carolina, Tennessee. These all became popular in the last ten years. Elon as well.

Wisconsin has been popular for the DC area for at least 30 years.

It has always been popular among DC residents, particularly since it participates in the program that gives a discount to DC residents.

Wisconsin and Michigan have a long history of popularity among Jewish students in this area and elsewhere. It stems from quotas that Ivy League colleges had on Jewish students.

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Anonymous wrote:Occidental

No. Financial difficulties. Moody downgraded it. Google it.

We're talking about the college, not the oil company.

Not PP, but colleges do have credit ratings which are very important to them. In this case, google says:

New York, September 26, 2019 -- Moody's Investors Service has revised the outlook for Occidental College (CA) to negative from stable. Concurrently, we have assigned a Aa3 rating on the proposed Taxable Bonds, Series 2019 and affirmed the Aa3 ratings on approximately $84 million of rated debt

Precisely my point. Moody's does rate schools and Occcidental's was downgraded Dec. 2019 to negative. I'm an alum. Since the coronavirus pandemic hit, I've been asked three times to send money in to tide it over. Oxy's situation is so poor that it cancelled the football season and team two years ago for lack of funds. Its endowment is at a low of 434M (or was before the pandemic). It's sister college, Pomona, which started around the same time and once upon a time drew from the same high school applicant base is 2.35 billion. That's why Moody's downgraded it.

Yet irrelevant to this thread. Occidental is growing in popularity, has had record applications in recent years, and is popular in the DC area.

A) it is not growing in popularity. It has lost its reputation.
B) It has become very easy to get in to with a a selectivity rate of 42%.
C) every single college in America can claim "record number" of applications because students now apply to 15 instead of 5 schools.
D) Oxy is on the "will struggle financially" list.

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Anonymous wrote:Occidental

No. Financial difficulties. Moody downgraded it. Google it.

We're talking about the college, not the oil company.

Not PP, but colleges do have credit ratings which are very important to them. In this case, google says:

New York, September 26, 2019 -- Moody's Investors Service has revised the outlook for Occidental College (CA) to negative from stable. Concurrently, we have assigned a Aa3 rating on the proposed Taxable Bonds, Series 2019 and affirmed the Aa3 ratings on approximately $84 million of rated debt

Precisely my point. Moody's does rate schools and Occcidental's was downgraded Dec. 2019 to negative. I'm an alum. Since the coronavirus pandemic hit, I've been asked three times to send money in to tide it over. Oxy's situation is so poor that it cancelled the football season and team two years ago for lack of funds. Its endowment is at a low of 434M (or was before the pandemic). It's sister college, Pomona, which started around the same time and once upon a time drew from the same high school applicant base is 2.35 billion. That's why Moody's downgraded it.

Yet irrelevant to this thread. Occidental is growing in popularity, has had record applications in recent years, and is popular in the DC area.

Anonymous wrote:Ohio schools.

Particularly Denison, Miami of Ohio, and Wooster.