Should I reconsider Oberlin as a possible school?

cptofthehouse
Thu, 18 Jul 2019 12:18:03 +0000

The same questions arose with PennState with the Sandusky scandal, with Missouri and the football issue, and Evergreen and the professor. It hurt Admissions to all 3 colleges . Fewer applications. But the oldest of the three Penn State , tended to run out of scandal steam ,iMO, and did not affect job prospects. My youngest happily applied to the school. 4 years earlier, it made my other child pause, though he did go through with the application

I think it’s going to hurt Oberlin, yes. But not Oberlin grads in general. It can become a conversation piece and depending on how it is handled, an Oberlin student can be assessed.

I’m in a liberal enclave and the verdict is not good in terms of the schools’s stance on this situation. I dare say a virulent support of it would put off more people than not. But I don’t know anyone so involved in this that they would cut an Oberlin student simply for association