There are plenty of open-admission colleges your child can attend. Do not go to HPU unless it is your affirmative choice to do so.
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Not quite that straightforward – she needs the handholding – but thank you!
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Small Catholic schools often offer a lot of hand-holding. As do schools with big programs for those with LD. No school is for everyone, but if you go in expecting to hate it, you likely will, and pay greatly for it. You can hire a tutor/coach to provide handholding at an inexpensive state school if you find the values more in keeping with your’s.
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There are plenty of colleges without HPU baggage where a kid who needs support can thrive. It’s not all or nothing.
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If you want to start a thread seeking suggestions of schools, I’m sure the community would be more than happy to help.
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If your daughter can get into High Point, there are many other colleges she can get into. The right one is out there. They just aren’t the ones most often mentioned on CC.
Do a search and you will find suggestions for kids that need structure, kids that nurturing environments, schools with LD and tutoring programs, etc.
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I can assure you that your kid can get into many fine colleges. Take a look at “Colleges that change lives.”
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HPU’s computer science program is ABET-accredited, so it must be doing something right.
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Why would you apply to a school that up front says God, Family, County? Just move on.
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Yeah, County seems limiting. Probably would be better if it was God, Family and Country…
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Article about the HPU from Forbes:
When The College Of Last Resort Is A Resort
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So in stark contrast to less beautiful open-enrollment schools, High Point almost exclusively enrolls wealthy students from out-of-state. High Point ranks 1,629 out of 1,658 institutions in terms of low-income students. For the few it attracts, High Point provides loans, not grants; students from families making $30K or less pay an annual net price of $33,814.
The guy writing the article clearly is not a fan. But the criticisms he mentions are a lot of the concerns that I felt as I looked into the college.
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The full quote and reference Elon ain’t no great shake. Basically they are criticized for having a smaller than average endowment. Perhaps they aren’t sitting on the money and have been using it to build what looks to be a wonderful institution. No shame in having money. “In 2020, only 11.5 percent of HPU’s first-year students were Pell recipients, putting the school at No. 1,629 out of 1,658 institutions in the rankings of advocacy group Education Reform Now. (Two nearby private universities ranked even lower—Elon at 1,650 and Wake Forest at 1,642.)”.
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Thanks for the spell check. My point stands 
I think we all have schools we love or don’t.
To some HPU is amazing. Their kids do get jobs. And as an institution, it does appear to be healthy. What happens with a new chancellor, I don’t know.
I laugh at their corporate mentors. All accomplished but 15-20 + years ago - well specifically the Woz and Marc Randolph, who my company hired to speak and was very good but the reality is his ‘growth’ or what not was in a different era.
Obviously business wise he accomplished more in a week then I will likely in my career. But he’s still of a different era so I think that’s more show than substance.
If grads are happy and no one is breaking the law then it’s all good.
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Rather surprised that Tulane is the second worst for Pell students.
If you judge the institution by the number of pools, perhaps. Maybe one less pool and fountain and a few more kids could have gotten FA.
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Maybe not every school can or should provide financial aid. Providing aid raises the tuition for full pay families. For a long time Elon kept its cost lower than most thus appealing to donut hole families hoping to keep expenses to about $50k/ year or less.
Not every school has to be everything for everyone.
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HPU seems to market heavily to high school counselors too. Last year on my D23’s school counselors Instagram page there were a few days of photos of the counselors visiting High Point, which I assumed was an all-expense-paid trip in order to get the counselors to recommend the school to the students. As a point of reference, we live in a relatively affluent area in NY.
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What’s the excuse for elite liberal schools like Bates? Too many fountains? The college cost issues goes way beyond dishing out Pell grants.
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