As a graduate of an all-women's college, it's sad to see SBC close. I don't know if VA needs another public college given the birthrate drop, but I'm not totally against LU buying and using the grounds for something. That is better than the campus disintegrating and the community around it doesn't have to have its economy crater...

Honestly, there is nothing sadder than an abandoned school or college campus. Just google Bennett College New York.

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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.

I, on the other hand, am surprised that not knowing a mediocre no name finishing school for riders is a shock to anyone. (I'm the UConn poster). I'm not from the US, and I was a polo player so that should help explain why I never heard of them. It has nothing to do with being a "dedicated" rider, which is pretty condescending assumption.

I think it's good that these types of schools are closing.

Right. There should only be one type of school for everyone.

As for the riding and the "no-name finishing school", I would much rather have gone to a private, liberal arts college than a large public university.

no shit. the second tier UCONN degree poster is bragging about their basketball school? lol.

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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.

I, on the other hand, am surprised that not knowing a mediocre no name finishing school for riders is a shock to anyone. (I'm the UConn poster). I'm not from the US, and I was a polo player so that should help explain why I never heard of them. It has nothing to do with being a "dedicated" rider, which is pretty condescending assumption.

I think it's good that these types of schools are closing.

Right. There should only be one type of school for everyone.

As for the riding and the "no-name finishing school", I would much rather have gone to a private, liberal arts college than a large public university.

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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.

+1
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.

I, on the other hand, am surprised that not knowing a mediocre no name finishing school for riders is a shock to anyone. (I'm the UConn poster). I'm not from the US, and I was a polo player so that should help explain why I never heard of them. It has nothing to do with being a "dedicated" rider, which is pretty condescending assumption.

I think it's good that these types of schools are closing.

can you please go back to wherever you came from soon?

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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.

+1
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.

I, on the other hand, am surprised that not knowing a mediocre no name finishing school for riders is a shock to anyone. (I'm the UConn poster). I'm not from the US, and I was a polo player so that should help explain why I never heard of them. It has nothing to do with being a "dedicated" rider, which is pretty condescending assumption.

I think it's good that these types of schools are closing.

Anonymous wrote:Really like the colors. Though I wonder if you can take a school whose colors are pink and green seriously.

Really? That's funny. Are they sponsored by Lilly Pulitzer?

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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.

Always nice to see how someone here can take an innocuous post and be bitchy. Perhaps I wasn't a hunter/jumper rider? (I wasn't). Perhaps I'm significantly older?

Aaaah, that's it. A quick google brings up Mimi Wroten, who you're presumably referring to, is more than 10 yrs younger than I am.

Not the PP, but your post was a tad bitchy, don't you think? "Clearly their marketing wasn't stellar" is the reason you haven't heard of it? Anyone who rides on the east coast, regardless of age, has heard of it. I'm almost 50 and know of it.

No, not anyone who rides on the east coast has heard of it.

Just because you and others here have heard of it doesn't make it so. Clearly some of you are feeling that your toes were stepped on by PP who hadn't heard of your precious little school. Such a great bastion of equestrianism and higher learning that it's closed.

Good. Time for these types of places to go away.

This reminds me of the Corcoran. Especially the story a PP told about students and faculty finding out along with everyone else. A shame.

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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.

Yup. My daughter, who had the difficult epiphany that I am not Michael Bloomberg, was temporarily set on Sweet Briar during her college search, which for a brief time this year was solely focused on places to further her riding education.

I am happy to report it took a more practical turn without any tears. University of CT was on her list too. We have no horse, nor money for a horse and it to go to college too.

If it wasn't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college.

(Anyone?)

why can't they use the endowment to fund the deficit for 5-10 years while they work out a plan going forward? go coed, affiliate with another school, try a major fundraising campaign, etc. what happens to the endowment otherwise?

i.e, can you dip into the endowment to fund operations?

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Looks like Liberty University will have a new satellite campus


Don't even joke about this.

When I saw the location described as, "Lynchburg" that was my first horrible thought.


Not joking, sorry. I know they just opened their Doctor of Osteopath school, and I've heard they're looking to add other programs, so I think this is the most likely scenario

Time to move out of Virginia.

Every remote, far away school got crossed off our list due to transportation. A ride to an airport (Washington DC area, not Lynchburg) is needed. Schools need to provide scheduled departures around break times. Out of state parents would pay the bucks. Knowing it's an option, even if the student finds another way home.

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Looks like Liberty University will have a new satellite campus

Don't even joke about this.

When I saw the location described as, "Lynchburg" that was my first horrible thought.

Not joking, sorry. I know they just opened their Doctor of Osteopath school, and I've heard they're looking to add other programs, so I think this is the most likely scenario

Looks like Liberty University will have a new satellite campus

Don't even joke about this.

When I saw the location described as, "Lynchburg" that was my first horrible thought.

Anonymous wrote:Looks like Liberty University will have a new satellite campus

Oh God.