<p>I was accepted into AU last night, ED. I’m sooo excited!!! My parents and I plan to make a trip to D.C. soon and whatnot. Any affordable hotels we should consider?</p>
<p>The Holiday Inn in Georgetown has good rates for AU students/families, and includes a free shuttle to and from AU all day–very convenient. The rooms are fine and the staff very helpful. The on-site restaurant is awful–but you’ll have more fun eating on and around campus anyway, and there are also a lot of good restaurants within a short walk of the hotel.</p>
<p>If you call this hotel, also compare the AAA rate if you belong–generally the AU rate has been the best, but once the AAA rate was better.</p>
<p>“The Common Data Set is compiled of surveys.”</p>
<p>Each college’s CDS is compromised of data from the college’s institutional research arm. There are NO surveys involved in any of them. </p>
<p>As noted, retention is inversely correlated with need-based aid. The reason for that is simple: the single most common reason students leave school is lack of financial resources/problems at home. With 69% of students receiving need-based aid, American’s retention rate is nothing short of stunning.</p>
<p>The Common Data Set is absolutely composed of surveys. Do your homework pls.</p>
<p>The retention rate has barely anything to do with financial aid. The 69% figure seems quite eskewed. Retention is based solely on whether students and parents are satisfied with quality of the education and if it is worth the money.</p>
<p>I’m feeling really stupid today. Even my J.D. isn’t helping me.
Can someone smart define the term “eskewed” for me?
I couldn’t even find it in dictionary.com</p>
<p>No problem. This example should clear things up: When you state that an 88% retention rate means that 20% of the students are leaving, you have “eskewed” the data. It happens all the time in Ithaca.</p>
<p>On another topic, a girl who D hosted for an overnight visit to AU in the fall decided to apply ED and just got in, and now D feels like she personally hatched an AU chick!</p>
<p>isttimemom, tonight when I have time to gather some thoughts I’ll send you a private message with some impressions of theater at AU. I don’t want to clutter the thread with too much stuff that isn’t of general interest.</p>
<p>of course, thanks MommaJ!</p>
<p>congrats to all those who applied ED and were accepted. D would have applied ED as AU is her top choice, but financial constraints being what they are, we didn’t think it’d be wise. 
Hooray for all those who will be heading to AU! Woot!</p>
<p>MommaJ,</p>
<p>Thank you so much for the explanation and clarification.</p>
<p>Here I was, thinking I was having a senior moment with regard to my legal education–not recognizing a legally sounding term like eskewed --only to discover that it’s a math-y term, and that’s why I didn’t recognize it at once.</p>
<p>I’ll make sure my math-y AU son gives me some more examples to practice with so I can get good at eskewed math.</p>
<p>Like many on College Confidential, I type faster than I think and sometimes misspell words, rarely though!! As far as the percentage error, I never thought the retention was as high a 88% and that is why I said more than 20% leaving, MommaJJJJ. I guess inference is a difficult skill for some. hmmmm? I forgot no one has misspelled anyting on this thread ever. hmmm?</p>
<p>Has anyone misspelled anyting littlely? I soppose not Boysx333. I sawry. My gwasses bwoke or maybe I hef a contition. You guys probably make fun of those with problems.</p>
<p>“Even if it were 88% retention, that is nothing to brag about. Why are the 20 some percent leaving???”</p>
<p>That is not inference. You implied in the previous sentence that you were operating under the assumption that the retention rate was 88% – but by all means please insult the intelligence of others. </p>
<p>As far as eskewed goes – I have more than once typed too fast and misspelled a word. Fortunately for me and almost everyone else operating on a modern computer browser (and a lot of phones too), a huge line appears under a word you misspelled. It’s not a catch all, sometimes the word you misspell turns out to be another dictionary recognized word. Eskewed is not one of them, and the only reference to it I have ever heard to it is from the Producers.</p>
<p>You can start a hundred new parent threads and the Cad will always rear her annoying head again, with more nonsense and manufactured complaints. Best to ignore her rants I think.</p>
<p>There is not a single survey or survey item in ANY college’s Common Data Set. There are no “opinions”, just facts gathered from each college’s Office of Institutional Research. But I guess 'red has never looked at one. Can’t really blame her: most Cornell students haven’t either. Nor does she have a clue as to why students leave school, since she’s busy flaunting her family’s wealth at every opportunity.</p>
<p>But I am glad that I am in the company of every single art professor at AU in seeting no evidence that there is a 'red daughter, no less an art student.</p>
<p>Interesting: When you research The Common Set the “research” Is composed of surveys and there is a pdf survey form prototype that colleges use for the Common Data set., merely questionnaires. According to your 88% or 90% retention rates , that still means over 700 kids are transferring out of AU per year including my daughter’s friends not in SIS, Kogod, or Communications. Maybe they shouldn’t focus on displaying artwork from the art students at University of Maryland and allow the undergrad art students at AU to take drawing so they can have an exhibit too. Also maybe hire some additional art professors who teach basics as well as advanced. There is obviously a demand for art courses demonstrated by the waiting lists of 19 to 22 people per course. BTW, the late Herb Edelman taught courses in the theater program years ago. He starred with Bob Denver,“Gilligan”, back in the latge 60’s, early 70’s in a tv sitcom called “The Good Guys”. The same name as the establishment near the Georgetown Holiday Inn that Boysx6 recommends.</p>
<p>The retention rate is contingent upon whether you calculating freshman returning or each class such sophomores etc. from year to year. You must define which class and its percentage of students you are using to determine the final calculation. Could be 150 to 700 kids leaving.</p>
<p>Correction: about 150-200 transferring out-not sure.(: Remember I need remedial math according to MommaJ. (:</p>
<p>We all know why 'red’s daughter isn’t transferring out - she doesn’t have one.</p>
<p>College confidential is for providing many viewpoints of the situation at the colleges as the administrator has indicated. Discounting others’ views and experiences, making fun of typing errors or disabilities, twisting figures as well as claiming others do not have children, to cover up what really goes on, is not in the spirit of this thread. BTW, Happy Chanukah and Christmas to those it applies. If AU has a BFA program listed in the official school catalogue, they should darn well deliver on it; they simply should allow the very few intended art majors to take these courses, not have these poor kids skip years of cultivating artistic skills so juniors and seniors can take GENEDS and stop promoting the University of Maryland art students. Good God. Take those required art courses for the art majors out of the GEN Ed category or don’t offer this major at all and mislead high school kids that they have one. How could anyone with common sense rationalize this? I received 3 private messages yesterday by people who really feel sorry for what my daughter has gotten into and feel bad and have complained how I have been treated on this thread.</p>
<p>We understand your frustration with what you perceive as unacceptable situations, but you must realize by now, that of all the posters on this thread, your daughter is the only student experiencing such difficulties. That being said, it doesn’t diminish your daughter’s problems with AU, but reiterates our inability to help you solve her problems. If your purpose is to alert and inform prospective students to problems that may exist at the university, you have certainly have accomplished that.
No one can offer any more solutions to your problems and your continual rants and complaints are getting old and boring.
If you and your daughter (I know mini) are so dissatisfied please transfer and go complain somewhere else (like Cornell).</p>