Not Good News

MiPerson80
Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:45:25 +0000

it sounds like modestmelody is with the Brown administration but I can think you need to understand what some parents see when they visit these schools. You said that there is a since of “entitlement” , and yes, if the parents are going to pay $50k/yr for a private school, we damn well should be heard! We did the “east coast” tour, Yale’s tour guides were very good (they have to try out for these positions), Princeton and Dartmouth were very poor, you wouldn’t believe the snide comments the Princeton student guide was making. Also, most parents have read the book “price of admissions” , where Brown , because of the low endowment, went after movie star kids and dropped the math requirement to get in…so let’s be realistic here, parents are getting very well informed, and when a school like Brown’s endowmwnt goes down by $800 million, this would really worry me if I was a student here. There will be dramaitc cutbacks.