Vaguely familiar with the area, we used to go to Knoebels all the time.
What is the feel of the school? No visits until potentially after the new year.
I replied to you on the other thread, but school is very pretty. Small, but close community. We really liked a lot of things - very sporty, D3. Kids I know there all play a sport. Greek life seems very service oriented; it was actually one of the places D thought she might actually pledge at. Required study abroad, but it doesn’t really have to be “abroad”; they have US opportunities. Also, Go Long (semester) or Go Short (most athletes I know do this so they don’t leave campus a whole semester). Our merit was generous, bringing it in line with our NJ publics.
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Will have to wait and see. When I run the calculator it gives me 32.5K out of pocket. No way I can swing that.
@Billb7581 that was our issue with all the D3 offers my daughter received for Volleyball. School was still too expensive. Ultimately we decided to forgo the sport and apply to schools that would offer her merit aid.
Perhaps @mainelonghorn can share some thoughts, pretty sure her D attended
So far I have exactly 1 I can swing. Albright. He wasn’t in love with it, but we never did an actual visit, happened to be in the area and checked out a few schools. But they have awarded him a decent package and we have an official visit/tour in a few weeks.
I have also learned these calculators have varying degrees of accuracy, so he threw the app in, what the hell, it was free.
I thought this college search was starting to narrow, but now it seems to be widening with all these coaches messaging him.
We visited Susquehanna twice but my D ultimately picked a larger school. The whole family went on the summer tour and we all loved it. The campus is gorgeous, just looks to me exactly how a college campus should look. D20 and I went back for an honors dinner and an accepted students day. Everything was so well run. Kids in the honors program definitely seemed a bit quirky but on accepted students day there were definitely all types of kids. There were students everywhere helping out and they all seemed so nice. Professors we met at the honors dinner were so engaging and knowledgeable. The town they can walk to is tiny but there is a strip of stores and restaurants a couple miles away with pretty much anything they could need. I was really rooting for the school. I think our cost with merit ended up being around $30k but we don’t qualify for any FA.
Where does Albright price tag net out? All the merit we’ve received from the small LACs gets us to $30k give-or-take $2-3k.
Albright gave him 12K scholarship and 8800 in grant aid bringing it down to sub 20 before Stafford loans.
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My D is a junior who transferred in last year. She is very happy there. Says it’s a very close knit community, and the professors really care about the students. Kids are pretty friendly and down to earth. Job placement/connections for internships, etc. she feels is strong. As other posters have mentioned, the GO program is a plus. The food isn’t great, and it is small. And while it’s not considered a top school academically, it’s not easy either. You have to attend classes and work hard. What is your son’s major?
Secondary education History concentration
She knows two people in the education major but can’t really speak to the quality of the program.
My daughter just graduated from Susquehanna in May. She had a wonderful four years there. She majored in art history and photography and was in the honors program. She had two amazing art history professors who were so helpful. One of them is currently helping her apply to grad schools. She worked in the art gallery and played in the jazz band - she received a small music scholarship for non-music majors that included lessons.
I think her two major complaints would be the food and the extremely conservative community. The students tend to be liberal, but locals can be prejudiced. That’s really the reason she is staying in Maine for now, instead of going back to PA where a lot of her friends from college are.
She did get a lot of aid, so don’t give up hope. After she received her initial aid package, I talked to the FA office when I took her to accepted students weekend. I explained how hard the recession had hit our small business, and they gave her more money. I think her tuition plus room and board ran us about $22k/year. We had her take out $3k/year in loans. We are still paying off our HELOC we used for her and our middle child.
We found out about the school when our older son, a recruited distance runner, was looking for schools. A college consultant in Maine liked the school so much that he sent his son there. Now there are quite a few kids from Maine there as a direct or indirect result of this man’s recommendations!
My son was offered a full-tuition scholarship to SU, but decided he wanted to study engineering so went elsewhere. I was thrilled when our youngest decided to go to SU!
I’m still sad, though, that her last semester was cut short. She had worked so hard on her senior art show, and it was canceled just days beforehand. Her last jazz band concert didn’t happen. Commencement wasn’t held. I had already booked a room in the Selinsgrove Inn (wonderful hotel, by the way - book ahead for parents’ weekend, commencement, etc.) for two different weekends in the spring. Ugh. Just for closure, I think I will make the 500-mile trip one more time and walk along South Front Street, which runs right next to the Susquehanna River - so beautiful! And I will visit more of the wineries that have sprung up in the area. 
I didn’t realize Albright was so inexpensive to begin with. $39k all in to start and then add $10-$23k in awards, makes it VERY affordable. Definitely a nice option financially!
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I think that is a fairly new thing. They lowered tuition this past year
He got a lot more merit than I thought, curious to see how much need he will get.