The pros and cons of HPU.

<p>Hello, it’s not clear from your post whether you were admitted or wait-listed to any school other than High Point. If not, I suppose you could enroll there for a year and see how it goes. But I am curious as to why you applied there in the first place, as it has a totally different profile from the large, prestigious state universities that you preferred. With your GPA and other qualifications, there are LOTS of terrific other schools that you could have gotten into, that probably would have been a better match for your professional goals. When we visited High Point, I was concerned by the apparent lack of focus on academics. When I asked how many of their graduates go on to law school and medical school, they said something vague like, “eventually 40% of our grads go on to further studies.” That is ridiculous … in any school that claims to have a prelaw and premed program, the advisers know how many students are getting admitted each year. I suspect they didn’t want to say because the numbers are pitifully low. Also they claimed to have an international relations program, but the admissions counselor couldn’t tell us anything about it and claimed that the information brochure for the major was “temporarily out of stock.” Good grief. In fairness, I did get the impression that the business program at High Point is quite good, but apart from that I think you could get much better academics elsewhere. However, it sounds like High Point is your only option, unless you want to take a year off. If you could find a “gap year” program, maybe doing some kind of work related to your goals, and then reapply next year to some better schools, you might come out ahead in the end.</p>