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SuperJon wrote:Oh, I woulda told him the same thing.
I would've just taken the money first.
belcherboy wrote:Samford reminds me of Cedarville University academically. Both schools are quite wealthy and could reasonably easily build a bigger campus with more students. They choose not to and limit their enrollment to only the best students. I have no problem with it and think it is a wonderful thing. In terms of how liberal or conservative they are in terms of rules and philosophy, my belief is Samford is night and day different than Cedarville. The reason I think Liberty is hands down better than those two places is because I could not have attended either. I was a slightly above average high school student (3.0 GPA and I scored a 19 on my ACT when it was out of 32 points). In the mid 90's when I was looking at which college to attend Cedarville was about 23-24 and Samford was in the same ballpark. (although I didn't even consider Samford)GREAT
What Liberty has that Samford and Cedarville don't is the low knowledge, hard working students. I can't tell you all the cool kids I went to school with that got a Liberty degree in spite of the fact they weren't blessed with a good high school education (several didn't work at it either). My best friend at Liberty graduated with a 1.8 GPA from high school. After 5 years, if anyone deserved a degree from Liberty it was him. He worked his TAIL off. He is just one example of several of my friends (I tended to hang out with them because they made me feel smarter). When Liberty started in the 70's, Jerry used to preach on his tv show, that they would take ANYONE, no matter what you could pay. A guy at my church was one of those guys. He was an orphan and had gotten saved late in high school after a rough life. He took everything he had (not much) and was accepted in Lynchburg. I believe Jerry wants that tradition to continue (especially with his dream of a billion $ endowment). Liberty has proven IMO, that it is second to none (maybe a few) if you judge their top 5% to almost any other school in the world. So you can get a world class education if you want the best, but if you don't have that ability, there is still a place for you there. On top of that, they still have an unbelivable dedication to the spiritual growth of its student body.
At this point I have no worries about the future of christian education in Lynchburg.
JLFJR wrote:Thanks for your input, PA! Very helpful.
The poor guy didn’t make it very long. :)