COVID & Wheeling?

[boatcapt]

Freshmen and transfers. I'd assume 70-80% freshmen return for sophomore year. That's the industry average.

Given all the negative press that WU had during the last couple of years, AND given the Covid situation, I'm a little shocked by this number. Clearly it's not a linear progression as many new students leave college for a wide range of reasons before graduating, BUUUTTT, if they keep ALL their new students and keep priming the pump with 256 students for the next four years...256x4=1024 which I think is were WU wants to be.

[Fightingscot82]

Given all the negative press that WU had during the last couple of years, AND given the Covid situation, I'm a little shocked by this number. Clearly it's not a linear progression as many new students leave college for a wide range of reasons before graduating, BUUUTTT, if they keep ALL their new students and keep priming the pump with 256 students for the next four years...256x4=1024 which I think is were WU wants to be.

Yeah I think there's progress. I also think they benefit from a) not a lot of private college options in that area, and b) a sustained interest in a Christian or Catholic college experience. I'd be interested to know their most common high schools and transfer schools.

[boatcapt]

Yeah I think there's progress. I also think they benefit from a) not a lot of private college options in that area, and b) a sustained interest in a Christian or Catholic college experience. I'd be interested to know their most common high schools and transfer schools.

Yep...When many were beating the drum that WJU MUST close IMMEDIATELY, I pointed out that they had a number of advantages that other schools in a similar situation might not have and that these advantages gave them a legitimate chance of becoming healthy again. They are far from out of the woods yet, but at least they appear to be moving in the right direction.

[Fightingscot82]

Something that could also help them is if WVU increases their admission standard. There's a family at my church - last year their kid was denied by Edinboro but he got in at WVU.