an unexpected phone call... does anyone know anything about The King's College?

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<p>I received a phone call this evening from a school I had never heard of. The King's College called. </p>

<p>What made this phone call noteworthy is that they offered me eleven thousand dollars a year to attend. woah.</p>

<p>I looked them up a bit on their website, and it's a tiny school. We're talking 13 full time faculty members.</p>

<p>So does anyone know anything about The King's College? Am I being offered 11k to attend a school that's going to run 50k in tuition? Is it reputable enough to be worth attending?</p>

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<p>No offense, but it sounds incredibly lame, and just about the furthest thing from ‘the college experience’.</p>

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<p>Too bad its not Kings College, Cambridge… the most famous college in the world for writers.</p>

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<p>Is this the one in PA? If so, it’s one of the 4 Catholic schools in Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area. The cost of tuition, room and board is over $11K. Not quite $50K, but certainly >30K.
I never knew it was that small though. I mean 13 full-time faculty members? Are you sure? That’s St. John’s MD, Shimer, etc. type small. I know they play D3 sports and football so enrollment should be over 1000K undergrads.</p>

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<p>No, it’s some random school that’s liked inside the Empire State Building, or something ridiculous.</p>

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<p>Red flag. Go with your gut.</p>

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<p>Gut says no, unless they’re calling from 1754 and would rename themselves Columbia after the American Revolution.</p>

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<p>And did they say all you needed to do was wire a large application fee??</p>

<p>No, seriously, it does sound very strange and it isn’t King’s College in PA, as they have 35 majors and 2,000 students. This may be some type of new scam. If they asked you for money up front, please report it to your nearest police dept. or attoney general.</p>

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<p>My son also got the same call, congratulating him on his 12K scholarship award. We dismissed it.</p>

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<p>Well, I was about to agree that it might be a scam, but then I googled and found their website. [~</a> The King’s College ~](<a href=“http://www.tkc.edu/]~”>http://www.tkc.edu/)</p>

<p>Just looks like another for profit private college to me at first glance. It also looks really small. I have no idea if it is accredited, as I don’t have time to drill through the website.</p>

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<p>OK, this got me curious. How does a college pop up seemingly out of nowhere? Religion!</p>

<p>this from the website:</p>

<p>"King’s ran into financial difficulties in the early 1990s and closed in 1994. In 1998, J. Stanley Oakes, in coordination with Dr. Bill Bright, led the effort to re-capitalize the school. Radandt continued as president. </p>

<p>In 1999, The King’s College acquired Northeastern Bible College, of Essex Fells, New Jersey. That year the revived King’s leased 34,000 square feet on two floors of Empire State Building, where it remains today. </p>

<p>On January 1, 2003, the Board of Trustees of The King’s College selected J. Stanley Oakes, Jr. to be the college’s fourth president. President Oakes, a graduate in Classical Greek from the University of Minnesota and in political theory from the University of Dallas, had spent nearly 20 years building a nationwide network of Christian professors. "</p>

<p>There was something about the website that reminded me of the way the country was in the 1950s… :)</p>

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<p>Actually, this is kind of interesting, I knew I had read about Kings College in the Empire State Bld in the Washington Post recently (<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/19/AR2008021902776.html)%5B/url%5D”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/19/AR2008021902776.html)</a>. It is legit, but exceedingly Christian. So maybe the inquiry should be in CC’s Christian College section above. There are several other articles on it if you google.</p>

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<p>My S has a friend who goes there, and he loves it. But my s and his friends still kid him about its legitimacy. And, yes, the school is decidingly evangelical Christian. My S’s friend goes to school in the Empire State Building, and his “dorm” is in an apartment building a few blocks (walking) from the Empire State Building. The girls dorm is in a newer building a bit closer. S’s friend is studying PPH, which is politics, philosophy and history. His ultimate goal is seminary.</p>

<p>zebes</p>

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<p>Say no…</p>

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<p>Perusing their Website, this is a legitimate, accredited, and established school with a not-for-profit educational mission. But you do need to be comfortable with that mission:</p>

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<p>There is no overt political mission but the fact that they are featured on the cover of American Spectator suggests a cultural conservativeness permeates. This would also be a very urban experience: classes in the ESB and housing in NYC high-rise apartments.</p>

<p>Website indicated tuition was about 23K per year (about 9k for housing), so 11K is a good incentive to attend.</p>

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<p>Ahh, I remember those 1950s websites…written in punch-card format and sent over ARPANET…</p>

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<p>There is a long article about King’s College in The American Spectator. You can see a pdf of the article by going to this page of the college website</p>

<p>[~</a> The King’s College ~](<a href=“http://www.tkc.edu/advancement/media/newsrelease.asp?id=107]~”>http://www.tkc.edu/advancement/media/newsrelease.asp?id=107)</p>

<p>and clicking on the link to the article.</p>

<p>King’s is obviously a college for politically conservative Christian students. They offer only a limited number of majors. However, for those students who like that kind of college, the chance to be in Manhattan instead of a place like Grove City, PA might make the difference.</p>

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<p>I received that same phone call, too, with a generous offer of 10,000. TKC is unfortunately not the school for me, in any form or fashion.</p>