<p>I was accepted- yea !!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>Way to go Froshtobe!! Congratulations!</p>
<p>My S was accepted - nice to hear via the Internet, but it's not as dramatic as getting the actual letter.</p>
<p>Congrats froshtobe and bethel...where are you from?</p>
<p>has anyone gotten merit money from furman yet? (apart from the hollingsworth)</p>
<p>That is the question, about when you hear about any financial aid. I believe they have told me that financial aid/ merit info will be mailed the first week in April.</p>
<p>wdlan88 and froshtobe and Bethel's S:
Congratulations on your admissions to Furman University and good luck on the financial aide information that comes next. </p>
<p>from a Furman Grad</p>
<p>Thanks Faline 2 . Oh you gave the post about the schools and it's students etc etc. Got a lot of info from that about the Furman environment!!!!!!!!!!! So, since you are an alum, how about telling all us "to- be's" about whether people when you graduated had trouble getting jobs. How about grad school acceptances?. In otherwards, give us the longer term view.......</p>
<p>Furman's website has a link to a very very favorable article on the long-term benefits of a Furman education at this moment. I linked to it earlier this week...and feel that it is accurate. Although I was from "all over" the USA and not as Southern as some of my fellow students, I was totally at home with kids from Atlanta, Jacksonville, Charlotte and other mobile Big South cities and many of my smaller town friends from the Carolinas were very gracious and took me home with them sometimes to places like Hendersonville, Hickory, Hartsville and Columbia. I understood their church outlooks a lot better after visiting their hometowns with them. Furman is an exceptionally warm and supportive environment where the vestiges of the Baptist heritage that I appreciated included professors who invited kids into their homes and got behind them for four years...not "aloof" adults is my point. I was involved with what is now called the Max and Trude Heller Service Corps which is an organization that puts Furman students to work in many agencies in Greenville as volunteers. Google Max and Trude if you want to "meet" two wonderful adults..Max is a former Mayor of Greenville. Classroom work is just plain hard. Harder than you might expect. Hard enough that you will fail if you don't try pretty hard. So good work habits are important. But academics are never impossible. Students do tend to put out a lot of effort and in general are more "square" than kids at some other colleges but they are also loyal and warm people. There are not a lot of slackers in the student body, but people do relax and enjoy the campus and surrounding mountains.<br>
I have "bragged" about the outcomes of my classmates, some of whom were Phi Beta Kappas and some of whom were "late bloomers" with lower GPRs. I truly believe that a solid liberal arts education will have great payoffs in life and will turn young people into "lifetime learners" who continue to seek out further degrees and interests in the arts and sciences. Furman's greatest success story is the long term outcome impact of the degree. I am fifty now. My classmates were admitted to UVa, Vanderbilt, Georgia and South Carolina Law Schools. One of them clerked for a US Supreme Court Judge. Harvard and other Med schools--handful of friends are doctors and acceptance rates are good if you can do the premed track well. I have a close friend (chemist) teaching at a top five LAC now who went straight from Furman to Chicago and Stanford. My roommate went to Northwestern and Columbia next (music)..Keith Lockhart was two years behind us. One pal is now an Episcopalian bishop. I have two friends who are tenured professors. One top ten large city newspaper journalist. Two novelists. Several Clinical Psych PhDs (Furman is oriented to Behavioral and Experimental Psych), several public school teachers, someone in my wedding went to Yale Div, another went into Economics and has a very great career as an analyst. Furman does produce people who will go to Div schools and serve in church music programs or in pastoral care careers. Some of my friends owned businesses and some are already at retirement age and ready to regroup. Trips to the SC beaches are annual and some of those beaches are really special.<br>
Anyway, if you choose Furman..give it 100% and it will definitely give even more back to you. good luck to you</p>
<p>Thanks much Faline2. Time will tell what will happen about financial aid and ultimate decisions but Furman by far would high on my list of choices. I actual corresponded with a professor in the field that I think I want to study in for awhile to get insight in their program and he was really cordial and informative and even sent a long letter. I like the idea of down to earth friendly students</p>
<p>Sorry about the typos above Faline2. I was rushing to finish because someone needed to use my computer and just rushed and ran and wasn't concentrating on accuracy.</p>
<p>you are most welcome, and wishing you fulfillment where you decide to live next year. Our colleges are pretty terrific in the USA.</p>
<p>Also, congratulations to all!!</p>