What are my chances at getting a scholarship?

camdisco24
Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:40:56 +0000

Cons-
No Football
Price Rising too quickly
No standard housing for upperclassmen. (There is a $2000 fee for most upperclassmen housing)

I help pay for the majority of my education so the last two are my top concerns.

People criticize HPU because it is different. People think everything should always happen the way it did in the past. When a school/business/person comes out and goes beyond the norm, people do not want to accept it on the surface. That’s why I always tell people to forget the aesthetics and go talk to the professors. That’s how I got excited about HPU. The focus at HPU was on real world application, and I found this to be unlike any other school. I loved the idea of learning everywhere I turned. HPU has not failed to disappoint in my three years here.

If I could change one thing about HPU, it would be their marketing efforts. They focused a little too much on the “fun” in the past and they are just now starting to focus on the important stuff. I think we have to stick with this to be taken seriously. HPU has always been dedicated to academics, but it just took them a while to truly showcase it.

Graduation rate. This number is interesting to me. It gets brought up often, for obvious reasons. IMO, this number is not concerning at all. If it remains this low the next 3-4 years… then yes, it’s a concern. Here’s why I say that… that number is based off percentage of students who graduated within a recent four year period. This means that the body of students this is based on entered in 2006/2007. What was happening at HPU during that time? A total transformation. (Btw, this is not a jab at those students what-so-ever) The culture of students from an academic standpoint has drastically changed since then. We’re talking much higher incoming GPA, SATs, ect… Give that number time to work itself out, and I believe we will be right up there with all the other private schools in the area. Especially with the addition of our 4 credit system.

Hopefully I explained that ok.