The NACAC website that lists schools still accepting students differentiates between freshman and transfers. The list also shows whether the school still has housing and financial aid available.
@DrGoogle, St John’s College in Annapolis (and New Mexico) is such a unique school with the Great Books curriculum, I can see why it may have problems finding students these days. Many students are advised to major in emerging that will make them career ready upon graduation and I think many high school students and their parents interpret that to mean something like business, engineering or computer science.
Post #20, yes but for the humanities major that is great learning. I know my oldest daughter learned almost similar thing at her college for Thematics Option. She added Cinematic Arts for practical reason but she also loves the major.
Maybe New Mexico is not a great location, I don’t really know.
Of course, those schools accepting late applications may not need necessarily offer as much in the way of scholarships or financial aid as they do to those who applied earlier.
To someone’s point, the tuition is misleading since for state schools it is in-state. At least that’s the case with College of Charleston in SC. OOS tuition would be about 12k+ more if similar to other state schools and I don’t think it has reputation of being great with merit aid. But it is a good school.
The schools don’t say they are lowering their standards, just that they have room in the class for the right applicant. Good schools can have an ‘off’ recruiting year, or a yield that isn’t as expected. I think Swathmore was on the list last year or the year before because, as we know, many kids can’t afford the sticker price come May when the scholarships and FA didn’t come through.
One school I went to was burned one year when they accepted the normal number of students, expecting a certain class size. 100 extra students said ‘yes’ and that was not a good thing! They then changed their acceptance formula and did more of a waitlist thing. It’s a balancing act.
Goucher is not near the riot area, it’s in Towson. Much more in the line of fire are UM at Baltimore (all the professional schools), U of Baltimore and any other school downtown. Other closer- than-Goucher schools, but still not downtown, are Hopkins, Loyola, St. Mary’s, Towson, and UMBC.
Agree that Goucher is way far from the Baltimore riots. Didnt they happen after the acceptance deadline anyway? The only riot that might happen (almost saw one last week when I was there) is fighting over parking spaces at the Towson mall right off campus.
Not saying that Goucher was in any danger from the riots, but also don’t think people necessarily make distinctions between Baltimore and the greater Baltimore area. The riots gave the Baltimore area a black eye.