Should I reconsider Oberlin as a possible school?

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Tue, 17 Sep 2019 17:15:28 +0000

some senior administrators

We are mostly talking about the Oberlin’s President, General Counsel and Dean of Students. You literally cannot get any more senior. The President and General Counsel were only recently hired by the Board, in part as a response to the mess that had been created under Krislov with respect to URM students protesting many aspects of the school’s engagement with them.

The problems run deep with the culture and they are not easily solvable. They implicate not only the President and General Counsel, but also the Board. It will be very expensive to fire either the President or the GC (on the other hand, I feel confident that after the Gibson and outstanding race discrimination claims by Karega are settled, the Dean of Students will be let go, or at least demoted). Why would a prospective family roll the dice?

On a positive note, it would appear from the CDS that merit money is available for basically everyone who doesn’t qualify for financial aid. I believe I also read in the strategic plan that 90% of the students receive financial aid or merit money. So, at least, only the weakest students will be paying full freight.