<p>Well, that was fun but now I’m getting bored with our one-note ■■■■■. Maybe the new year will bring us a new ■■■■■…</p>
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<li>Gives preferential treatment to those paying full tuition over those whose superior academic credentials enable them to receive scholarships.
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<li>Has the “Welcome Center” in a dank, dark basement so students are not disturbed at their studies.</li>
<li>Has convenient access to over-rated high priced restaurants. (James Beard award winning chefs preferred)</li>
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<p>I don’t mean to derail the current conversation, but I just have a quick question about the AU admissions process. I recently decided that I would apply to AU even though I have lived in the area my entire life (which is why I had been against for it a long time). This means that I have not had any time to set up an interview or campus visit. I have heard that AU weights this type of interest heavily. Is there anyone on here who was able to set up an interview and/or campus visit this late into the app. process last year? Or is there anyone that didn’t set anything up and still got in? Thanks for your help.</p>
<p>"Why was a police survellance camera installed, outside, at the Tenley/AU metro over the past few months, one of only ten other police cameras in the city, installed to deter crime in Tenley mini, boysx3??? No reasons at all???</p>
<p>It’s a fair question. By February 2008, DC had already installed 73 of their own cameras, and were installing hundreds more. In April 2008, the city launched a program to gain accessed to 5,000 already existing cameras.
[District</a> of Columbia: Mayor’s Office: News](<a href=“http://www.dc.gov/mayor/news/release.asp?id=1273&mon=200804]District”>http://www.dc.gov/mayor/news/release.asp?id=1273&mon=200804) </p>
<p>But the Tenley/AU area was SO safe that it was among the LAST areas in the city to be allocated cameras of any kind. </p>
<p>Doesn’t matter, though. There isn’t any d. There are no notes from parents claiming they are being bullied. 'red just finished his Cornell paper, and has some extra time on his hands.</p>
<p>Hi amh333. My D, a current Honors program freshman, visited AU for the first time the same day she auditioned for her program–I believe this was in February (i.e., well after her application went in). She never interviewed. The website states that interviews should be set up 4 weeks in advance, but note that it also says that interviews are “nonevaluative” and “your admission status will not be affected by an interview”, so I wouldn’t sweat it. Info sessions and campus tours are frequent throughout the year, and I’m sure you can register easily. Good luck!</p>
<p>No logic in that Mini. There still many severe crime ridden areas in D.C., at the metros, that have not been allocated cameras yet; so how can Tenley be SO low in crime that it is the last to get some? According to AU transfer some were installed at Tenley in 2007, but this years budget allocated more cameras to Tenley? No crime ey???</p>
<p>Amh333–my daughter never interviewed before applying, and only visited after she was admitted. She decided to attend after the visit and the tour.</p>
<p>Hello5:</p>
<pre><code>The other posters are saying that the police surveillance cameras are useless, so why would D.C. police be any more responsive to a complaint from an upper class teenager from AU. All of you say that there are other neighborhoods with even more crime, which there is. So Tenley, using that logic would be low on the list to address complaints, right???
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<p>What does it matter? You don’t have a d., so she couldn’t be accosted.</p>
<p>Go back to your paper.</p>
<p>CR, </p>
<p>Why didn’t your daughter report being threatened to the DC police? If it happened off campus, AU had no jurisdiction…so why is it AU’s fault ?</p>
<p>You constantly complain about the urban nature of DC.</p>
<p>Students–other than yours–choose to go to school in DC because of the urban nature of the area around the school. That AU is located in a city and has the same societal ills as every other city is not exactly a deep, dark secret. If AU students wanted a less urban environment…something safe and bucolic and boring…they would have chosen to enroll elsewhere. What else did you or your daughter expect? You claim to be so DC-savvy, so the urban ills you complain about should not be at all a surprise to you. </p>
<p>You or your daughter chose AU with full knowledge that it is located in a city with problems facing all cities, that AU is a school with a great reputation in certain disciplines and less emphasis in others–and as resources are not limitless, but rather a zero sum proposition, it employs its resources in accordance with its strengths; that AU has a 60/40 male/female ratio, and then you complain your daughter is unhappy because she hasn’t found a man for her yet. </p>
<p>You complain about registration policies clearly stated in the handbook–something you were responsible to know before you arrived on campus.</p>
<p>You claim you visited campus with your daughter before she chose to enroll–so you must have realized that most of the students on the campus are perhaps more worldly and sophisticated than your daughter–so maybe that’s why she doesn’t fit in socially. The other students are capable of making their own fun and don’t expect the “grownups” to plan it for them…if they want sand volleyball or a videogame tournament or cookie baking or a dance or an ice cream social or a speed dating event…they will plan it themselves and get others involved.</p>
<p>You must be one cruel mother to insist your daughter remain enrolled at a school that so clearly does not meet either her academic, artistic or social needs, in an environment, both on and off campus, that frightens her to the point of overwhelming her ability to enjoy herself.</p>
<p>Boysx3:</p>
<pre><code>My past posts have indicated that the AU shuttle drops the kids off at a Metro stop where Wilson students and deranged homeless people bother others. More police cameras have just been installed there. It is AU’s responsibility to evaluate where they are dropping off THEIR students. It is AU’s responsibility not to blame kids who go to them to report a bike theft, telling them the theft could have been avoided, if an even more expensive bike lock were purchased.You say we should have known registration procedures beforehand. Ridiculous. Why are freshman SIS, COMM, and Kogod students getting special preference for their needed pre-req courses over the upperclassmen of other majors. We were never told the other majors do not matter, during accepted students day.
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<p>cadred, this is getting boring. Time to come with some new material!</p>
<p>Why don’t you let us know how you felt about the snowfall that occurred during finals? Don’t you think it is the administration’s responsibility to control the weather more effectively, so that students are not distracted from their studies by the lure of snowball fights and snowman construction? </p>
<p>And what about the fact that most of Hughes will be Honors floors next year? Has this frustrated your daughter’s plans to reside within a stone’s throw of the art studios, in blatant disregard for the promises made during her interviews and admitted students’ day that her talents would be allowed to blossom without restraint?</p>
<p>Would also love to hear your thoughts on the shameless use of corn syrup in the salad dressings in TDR, and that fact that taxicabs with foreign-looking drivers are allowed to roam the campus without being checked by bomb sniffing dogs.</p>
<p>Thank heavens you are here to expose the foul underbelly of AU and our nation’s capital to innocent parents who happen to stumble upon this thread. And thank heavens for your brave child who has decided to soldier on at AU despite her many trials and tribulations so that you may continue your valuable work here.</p>
<p>Maybe AU should have the shuttle drop students far from the Metro station since it’s dangerous nearby…or maybe AU should discontinue the shuttle entirely and let the students exhaust themselves walking the whole 1/2 mile to Tenleytown and the Metro station on their own, being accosted by no-goods the entire way?</p>
<p>But there are BUSHES there! How dare AU allow neighbors to have dangerous bushes? Why don’t they have a bush eradication program? Don’t they know that attack bushes are among the most dangerous representatives of the natural world? Why doesn’t DC prohibit the growing of these deadly bushes?</p>
<p>MommaJ:
Now that you mention housing, I received an email about no guaranteed housing any longer for 3rd and 4th year students starting next Fall. One of the reasons we picked AU was because you were most likely to get housing on campus all 4 years. They are accepting more students than they can house. The neighborhood around AU is extremely expensive for the average student to pay. I guess they are not concerned with that? Interesting. To get around my daughter having to taking intro to drawing which they require and continue to close her out of, we proposed to the AU registrar her transferring a couple of college credits in Drawing that she earned at a local art college a couple of summers ago. They immediately said no (again no flexibility), because she didn’t get permission from AU back then. We said she wasn’t even at AU then. She was a high school student then. They said it didn’t matter. They said maybe her advisor could look into it, but everytime she has gone to this person, she always says her hands are tied and can’t do anything. The course she took at the art college was so much more advanced than the beginning drawing course at AU. My daughter said the work she saw from beginning drawing this year was god awful, mainly because they place all upperclassmen in it using it as a GENed.</p>
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<li><p>Must guarantee housing for every single student enrolled in the college.</p></li>
<li><p>Must accept for credit any course a student has taken from any institution in the past, as long as the student’s mother insists that it was really advanced.</p></li>
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<p>For everyone’s information, the housing email cadred is referring to discusses multiple housing matters, and states with respect to students who will be juniors and seniors next year: “…we have concluded that the best way to manage this shortage, UNTIL WE CAN BUILD MORE STUDENT HOUSING, is to reduce the number of campus housing spaces for third and fourth year students and to increase support resources available for finding off-campus housing.” It appears this is a temporary situation, attributable no doubt to the increased popularity of the school and on-campus housing. Two new dorms are scheduled to open later this year, and no doubt construction of additional housing will continue. In any event, neither cadred’s daughter nor any other entering freshman was promised on-campus housing for 4 years. And given cadred’s opinion that AU is run incompetently, and her disdain for what she regards as the average AU dorm resident’s wild and crazy lifestyle, it is incomprehensible to me why she would want her daughter to reside in school-run housing. (Almost as incomprehensible to me is why she would pay $50k/yr. for what she clearly considers to be a poor education at a terrible institution.)</p>
<p>Interestingly, the housing email went out to students, not parents (I had to ask D to forward it to me after reading cadred’s post so I could figure out what she was taking about), no doubt because students are expected to deal with housing matters without the interference of helicoptering parents.</p>
<p>So, cadred, how are those transfer apps going?</p>
<p>Wondering if any one else is in a similar situation. We sent our daughter’s tuition check well in advance of the deadline, and they definitely should have received it by now, but they still haven’t acknowledged receipt of it. I am hoping with the holidays things are moving a bit slow. Talked to the office and am trying to track down the check. Anyone else having the same problem…?</p>
<p>MommaJ:</p>
<pre><code>You are incorrect. The Housing email WAS forwarded to parents and states, Hi AU family member, hope you enjoying the holidays with YOUR student. Maybe your own daughter requested that you not receive parent emails ??? (: Check with Housing hon. Hopefully it will not be too taxing.
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<p>Littlebird:</p>
<pre><code>Perhaps your check was rubber? (:
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<p>Oh, My dear MommaJ:</p>
<p>The email to us about the changes in Housing came from Gail Hanson, Vice President of Campus Life, addressed to ALL AU parents, but not you??? I wonder why? Not an AU parent maybe??? Any others here not parents??? (:</p>