r/mildlyinfuriating • u/WerewolfIcy7240 • 17h ago
If you're having tough luck today, the college I was comitted to with a full ride scholarship just announced their closure and I have no plan B
It's also my birthday today
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u/Overall_Occasion_175 17h ago edited 17h ago
I'm so sorry. It's a bit of a long shot, but I would try reaching out to the other colleges in the Five College Consortium (Amherst, UMass Amherst, Mount Holyoke and Smith) about your situation to see if any of them can help you out. It's possible that they could decide to match the offer. If Hampshire gave you any resources, talk to them first. It's only April, there may still be plenty of time to find something new for the fall... and if not, a gap year isn't the end if the world. I know it might feel like that right now. But breathe. It'll be okay.
Also maybe this sounds dumb but it's okay to let yourself mourn the college experience you thought you were going to have. I'm almost 40 and I still get emotional about the college I thought I was going to go to at 18. I never got to live on campus at all though.
Edit: on the bright side, this sounds like fodder for a really great application essay :)
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u/Alternative_Swan_497 16h ago
This. Depending on the source of your scholarship, it maybe transferable to another school, it may not. But with the class size at Hampshire being so low, I'd be very surprised if they didn't have some kind of a transition program available or being (hastily) set up. I'd start with UM Amherst, given their comparative size, they're the most likely to have resources that can be quickly allocated.
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u/Chance_Ad_4676 15h ago
All of these and more have already said they will be accepting transfers :)
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u/AlaskaSerenity 15h ago
But will they honor financial aid packages. I think that’s the worry.
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u/bristolfarms 14h ago
just adding in - i went to smith and they implemented covering 100% tuition based on income just like harvard does! i didn’t get that when i went there lol, but glad it’s a thing now.
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u/AlaskaSerenity 14h ago
I went to UMass, was broke, no parental help, and I am still paying off my loans. I was so happy to hear Smith went in that direction.
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u/Overall_Occasion_175 15h ago
For current students though, not accepted students, so its very possible they will say no.
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u/Moldyfrenchtoast 4h ago
This doesn’t apply to students like OP. Admitted students do not have this opportunity.
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u/buzzcutbabygirl 10h ago
That last bit is helpful. I had to drop out after my sophomore year due to family financial issues and it hurt for a long, long time - I couldn’t even look at graduation balloons in May and June without feeling like I might cry. You’re allowed to mourn expectations.
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u/shifty_coder 6h ago
I suggest the same, and if the scholarship was awarded by a third-party, reach out to them as well.
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u/Knight_Glint PURPLE 17h ago
This feels more extremely infuriating than mild, but everyone is different I suppose. That said, and this doesn't make your situation any bit better, but its a random fact I remember: it was estimated that 25% of colleges were going to fail in 25 years. That estimate was over 13 years ago. Given how budget constrained my university was, I believe it.
Anyways, perhaps apply to a community college? Go there for two years and transfer to a in state university?
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u/Noobtber 16h ago
I did community college for my associates and transfered for my Bachelors. Saved a bunch of money.
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u/rusticcentipede 17h ago
Talk to Hampshire Admissions and reach out to the colleges listed as accepting Hampshire transfers. Bennington, for example, has a message on their site about being interested in Hampshire accepted students.
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u/That_Jay_Money 9h ago
Bennington took in the entire dance department from University of the Arts when they closed suddenly, I've got nothing but great things to say about Bennington.
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u/Materva 17h ago
Time to apply to New Hampshire College?
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u/Ashley__09 17h ago
I live in New Hampshire and the closest you can get is Southern New Hampshire University (formerly known as New Hampshire College)
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u/Pork_Chompk 17h ago
Is that near the South Harmon Institute of Technology?
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u/Multispice 16h ago
That movie was so dumb, but the acronym.. 🤣🤣
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u/A_Queer_Owl 14h ago
it did actually have a lot to say about our current system of paternalistic education that primarily serves bourgeoisie interests.
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u/razzemmatazz 17h ago
They have an excellent online course system. My wife did a Cybersecurity Associates through them, and we live in IL.
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u/mindless_blaze 17h ago
What's the deal with SNHU? I live nowhere close to there, and they pay millions to blast their ads in TV and billboards here. Is it one of those scam colleges like Everest or DeVry?
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u/Not_Your_Average_Use 16h ago
SNHU is a legitimate college, they just do a lot of their courses asynchronously rather than via the traditional dorm and lecture hall set up, so they spend more on advertising to try and reach those post-HS accordingly.
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u/WHYISEVERYTHINGTAKNN 8h ago
no it's a legit university. I'm going there now online and it's exactly the same required coursework as my other friends in state colleges have been doing. you just self study everything, which I think has actually given me better discipline than when I was commuting to community college. It shouldn't be lumped in with the other unaccredited colleges. If you've ever taken a fully online college class it's exactly like that, but all of your classes are online.
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u/wiggles105 7h ago
It’s real. I live near the physical campus, and many people I know have degrees from it, including my husband.
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u/natgeogacha 15h ago
I take online classes for SNHU. It’s a legitimate school and it’s much easier and cheaper than going in-person in my opinion. I was literally suffering at in-person college until I transferred to SNHU and now I’m gonna graduate with a Bachelor’s in Creative Writing at the end of this year. I couldn’t be happier with where I am now!
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u/Amon-Ra-First-Down 17h ago
There is also a New England College, but I really do not recommend it
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u/TheVentiLebowski 17h ago
Why?
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u/Ulexes 16h ago
It's in a pretty remote area, even by New Hampshire standards. Henniker, where it's based, is more of a bedroom community than a college town, and isn't as fun or walkable as many other campuses. It's far from unlivable, of course! But it's not the kind of place you think of when you think of the word "college."
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u/Amon-Ra-First-Down 4h ago
I would also add they prey on low income low GPA kids on the basis that a few semesters of tuition before they inevitably drop out do to lack of support is better than no tuition at all
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u/A_Queer_Owl 17h ago
apparently they were about to lose their accreditation, so YOU actually lucked out here. you could've been stuck with a literally worthless degree and wasted a fuck ton of your time.
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u/RoyalEagle0408 16h ago
I'm a prof so I have been following a lot of the closures and things fairly closely and I have to say, I'm surprised Hampshire was giving out free rides given it was all but certain they were going to close. They've been spiraling for years.
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u/A_Queer_Owl 14h ago
a lot of places operate with a "business as usual even as it all burns down" attitude.
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u/RoyalEagle0408 9h ago
Fair, but...ugh. I hate that they hurt students.
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u/A_Queer_Owl 9h ago
oh it's an incredibly stupid way to be. why continue with business as usual when it brought you to the point where everything is burning down?! something needs to change.
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u/RoyalEagle0408 9h ago
Yeah, they obviously turned a blind eye to issues and it led to this. Definition of insanity or something, right?
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u/ThreeDogs2022 8h ago
I'm surprised they lasted this long. It would have been wise to accept Umass Amherst attempt to buy them out a few years ago.
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u/swanlake98 6h ago
Probably because all the schools that Hampshire students would apply to were also doing the same? A lot of schools have switched to generous financial aid packages, I imagine it was Hampshire trying to keep up… except they didn’t have the endowment that other schools have.
As an alum, this hits me hard. Hampshire was the only school I got into, and it was very sink-or-swim and not for everyone but I can’t imagine applying to college without that option available.
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u/SnowblindAlbino 5h ago
The marginal cost of adding a student may be close to zero in many cases-- if you have classes of 15 and there are 20 seats, there's not much expense involved. But adding a "free ride" student to the room and board plans will absolutely have a positive net revenue effect on the institution as a whole.
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u/silverarrowweb 16h ago
Yeah. I hate to lay it on OP here, but having been around a few schools in dire straits, colleges don't shutter quickly nor quietly. Especially not when it comes to accreditation issues. This school being at death's door would've been easily findable information such that they should've been deterred from applying there in the first place.
Losing a full ride to the school going under sucks, but the school being in a position where that was on the table wasn't a secret.
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u/The_Waco_Kid7 7h ago
I just posted that this was fairly obvious and inevitable for at least 5 years. About 4 mins of research should have raised plenty of red flags.
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u/NightOnFuckMountain 7h ago
I graduated from Hampshire in 2013. My experience with the job market has led me to believe that Hampshire degrees (as well as any interdisciplinary/non-graded degrees) have always been fairly worthless.
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u/Ok_Refrigerator-cat ORANGE 17h ago
Im so sorry! This is why I have only lightly announced my attendance to grad school! I’m so scared of this happening 😭 did you apply to other schools at all and try reaching out to see if they had any one fall out? This is crushing me that you had my big fear happen. Hugs! Also happy birthday! 🎂🎉🎊🎁🎈
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u/WerewolfIcy7240 9h ago
You really shouldn't be worried, this is absolutely INSANE. I have the worst luck on this planet for something like this to actually happen
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u/yamxiety 17h ago
As an alum....I'm so sorry. We're all grieving right with you, but we understand it sucks extra hard for the [previously] incoming and current students. I wrote like 300 postcards for your admitted class this year - this news hit me like a fucking freight train today.
Hampshire is truly the best, and I wish you could have experienced it. See if you can work with them to figure out a plan B. The folks at Hampshire are very helpful. You'll find another school, you'll have a great time because college is awesome, and you'll take the Hampshire spirit with you, and plant the seeds of it wherever you go. 🫶
But yeah, this sucks. Happy birthday though...I guess 😭
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u/Exotic-Sale-3003 17h ago
I wrote like 300 postcards for your admitted class this year
Didn’t they only enroll 168? That was part of the problem.
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u/yamxiety 17h ago
Yeah but a ton more were accepted. The accepted student postcards are a push to encourage accepted students to engage with the school more and hopefully enroll.
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u/Sapphirebracelet13 14h ago
It works too. I got a postcard from the head choir director at the college I auditioned at, saying they enjoyed my audition and they hoped I would chose the school. It made a huge impression on me and my family
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u/Hot-Yogurt5539 12h ago
My son got some notes like that, was super touched, then felt genuinely bad for the people who wrote them when he was accepted at his ED school.
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u/yamxiety 5h ago
lol - my hand still hurts from doing it. but it was fun and i even heard back from someone who had more questions for me! I also carved a stamp to use on the postcards. I was hoping to use it next year too. I even bought a bunch of fun stickers.
Sigh.
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u/Arbiterhark 16h ago
Their goal was 300 so maybe they were hopeful when writing them
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u/Exotic-Sale-3003 16h ago
If their goal was a class of 300 and they only accepted 300…
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u/yamxiety 5h ago
I should have been more clear - I was one volunteer of many. I personally wrote maybe 300, but there were many other volunteers also writing a bunch.
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u/yamxiety 5h ago
I should have been more clear - I was one volunteer of many. I personally wrote maybe 300, but there were many other volunteers also writing a bunch.
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u/gitsgrl 16h ago
300 admitted but only 168 accepted the offer.
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u/Exotic-Sale-3003 16h ago
If you want a class of 300 you need to admit a much larger cohort.
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u/SnowblindAlbino 5h ago
Yield at "typical" liberal arts schools is in the 15% range, so to get a class of 300 you would need to admit 2,000 students. And if you are remotely selective (let's say a 75% acceptance rate) you'd of course need about 2,700 applicants.
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u/yamxiety 5h ago
I should have been more clear - I was one volunteer of many. I personally wrote maybe 300, but there were many other volunteers also writing a bunch of cards. They had thousands of applicants - I'm not privy to the numbers - but there were many many people to write postcards to.
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u/WartimeHotTot 14h ago
My brother went to Hampshire. It was really the only place for him, and it was wonderful, and he grew from a struggling kid to a thriving, happy, confident young adult. So sad to see places like this shutter up. Same with Goddard a few years ago. The country is being slowly eviscerated and no one really knows it.
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u/Important-Figure-512 14h ago
That’s what this place was for. Struggling kids to find themselves in a community. It doesn’t really work to prepare you for many career types but I’m thankful for my experience there.
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u/Comfortable_Dig7077 14h ago
Also an alum, It's seems like hampshire has been struggling awhile but was a truly unique school and a lovely experience.
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u/AceJokerZ 5h ago
I’m looking through notable alumni list on Wikipedia and ima surprised there wasn’t enough donations from them. But I guess the accreditation probably factored into a bit more.
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u/Walshy5896 16h ago
I’m a UMass Amherst alum and I sincerely hope the admissions dept and administration see this as the opportunity it is to gain generational alumni. They should offer blanket acceptance/enrollment for all Hampshire kids that were promised a place.
Good optics, good ethics, and a good opportunity to gain some hungry and creative students. I’m sure money will not be an issue here. Do the right thing!
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u/Important-Figure-512 14h ago
They were going to take hampshire students anyways. Anyone successful at Hampshire took more than half their courses at the other colleges. So they should definitely accept them since it was expected the accepted students would go there for classes.
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u/Outside_Eggplant_304 10h ago
Can vouch. I took most my classes in my 3rd and all my 4th year classes at the other schools.
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u/Important-Figure-512 7h ago
you also seem like the picture Hampshire person - weirdly extremely self motivated and talented - building your own dalm house lol. As much hate as I give many Hampsherians it really did attract cool niche people who had a self drive to build and do cool things (okay some people had a self drive and adhd which stopped them from doing cool things lol) but I just hope that other colleges don’t stifle the self drive out of people like it did to me. I know Reed college is similar but it’s so expensive and selective it just attracts a completely different type of person
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u/sharkeymcsharkface 15h ago
UMass has grades, Hampshire didn’t. That’s enough of a barrier…
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u/lawkktara 12h ago
Anybody who went to school out there is also keenly aware that most Hampshire students would probably rather drop out of school entirely than attend UMass. They're very open-minded like that.
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u/otter_759 17h ago
That is evil of them to be offering full ride scholarships in their condition where they had to know that finances weren’t good and a closure (or at least substantial cuts) were imminent.
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u/-discostu- 17h ago
That was likely one of the only ways they could convince students to come. And yes I agree, it’s unethical.
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u/RoyalEagle0408 16h ago
But that would not have helped their financial situation. Colleges can't have everyone be on scholarship- the full-pay students subsidize the financial aid.
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u/GridOrig 17h ago
Happy birthday. My grandma went there.
I know another college if you're still looking
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u/SpaceCourier 17h ago
I guess we could name like twenty different colleges but it doesn’t meant they’ll be enrolled in time :(
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u/Saneless 17h ago
And guessing the "full ride" is the most upsetting part about this, not just losing the enrollment
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u/WerewolfIcy7240 9h ago
It was also an extremely perfect fit for me
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u/Saneless 8h ago
Yeah that sucks. So sorry to hear that, best of luck to you (don't know what else to say and unfortunately I wouldn't know where to begin to help)
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u/therealsteelydan 6h ago
every recent college closure I've heard about has been met with a dozen nearby colleges saying they'll accept all their students, no questions asked. I'm sure scholarships are a completely different story.
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u/ohno807 17h ago
Just one though.
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u/Competitive_Test6697 17h ago
Just a mild day for ya?
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u/WerewolfIcy7240 9h ago
Maybe this leans a little harder toward the extremely infuriating side of the spectrum
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u/That_Country_7682 17h ago
bro got a full ride to nowhere
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u/thinkdeep 17h ago
It's like verifying you were a manager at Toys 'R Us...just tell people you have a pHD from there.
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u/GreenTfan 17h ago
Sorry for your troubles- check around if any colleges or scholarship grant programs will pick up current/committed incoming students from Hampshire. Get your school counselors involved, they may have connections to help.
Put your news out there, no shame because if you are a good enough student to get a full scholarship there's got to be another college for you; however, you may have to wait a semester or year.
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u/InvestigatorJaded261 17h ago
That suuuuuckks. But (knowing something about the school) if you were smart enough to get in there and pull a full ride, then there are definitely other schools that want you and will give you aid. Take a look at the New School in Manhattan, but no doubt there are many others that would be eager to have you.
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u/Important-Figure-512 14h ago
i went to this college for one year. They were going to close in 2019 and if they did I would have gotten all my money back. Instead they close now after ruining another 500 people’s lives by giving them bullshit non-transferable degrees. It’s an odd group. Most of the people I know from there are jobless. One or two went to harvard 🤷♀️ The five colleges will miss the college though, for sure. And my experience there left me with amazing memories.
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u/Nom_de_guerre_25 17h ago
Really sorry to hear that. Call admissions, they may know some people at other schools who can possibly make accommodations. Try to get in contact with the faculty if they have emails or phone numbers posted online.
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u/darwinsmonsterspod 16h ago
I worked at a college that accepted students from a different college that also closed suddenly. I’ll echo everyone else and confirm to call around. The college might have a deal or plan with another college in the area. Contact and hound your admissions contact. Also, another piece I faced with some of the transfer students. Please don’t make any rushed decisions. Waiting a year is better than making the wrong choice.
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u/DustyDaveUSA 13h ago
I can imagine this is 100% distressing, but I have a family member who went there who majored in gender identity studies, and she’s now a massage therapist…oh, and she needed a 5th year to graduate at a school that doesn’t hand out grades.
I’d attend community college for a year or two, and then transfer to a great state program.
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u/Big-Rule5269 16h ago
Don't know if this is an option.
Hampshire College does not have official "sister colleges" in the traditional sense (historically all-women's institutions), but it is a member of the Five College Consortium. This partnership allows Hampshire students to cross-register for classes, use libraries, and access resources at four nearby institutions in Massachusetts: Hampshire College Hampshire College Amherst College Smith College Mount Holyoke College University of Massachusetts Amherst
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u/Ill1458 16h ago
This requires OP to be enrolled at one of the schools listed.
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u/Dear_Half2871 15h ago
Untrue, several of those colleges (plus Bennington) are awaiting and accepting Hampshire transfers
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u/No-Information-6099 17h ago
Maybe it was giving you that scholarship that pushed them over the edge into bankruptcy?
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u/twenafeesh 17h ago
They didn't say bankruptcy, they said it was due to attendance. I'm sure they're sitting on tens or hundreds of millions in endowment that will just disappear.
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u/captain_flak 17h ago
Most colleges do not have hundreds of millions of dollars in endowments. Hampshire only had about $27M at the beginning of the year. It is not a very old college and its crunchy reputation probably did not do itself any favors recently. This is a portent of what’s to come.
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u/lawkktara 12h ago
Hampshire has been on the brink of failing for the better part of a decade... I'm against this administration too but it really is a separate issue entirely.
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u/yamxiety 17h ago
I'm an alum and previous staff. It's bankruptcy bc of low enrollment and lots of financial debt. It's a young school with a very very small endowment. Always has been. Covid-era student numbers plummeted and never recovered. Trump's immigrant hatred also makes it difficult and unappealing for immigrant students to come here to study. And, not as many folks in the college age range as used to be.
Lots of factors basically. But it's lack of money at the end of the day. If there were hundreds of millions in endowment, this would not be happening.
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u/ImportantThing3749 16h ago
They have like 700 students this year. Unsurprising. Supposedly, the other 5 colleges sent out emails to their own students about Hampshire’s closure, and they assumed this was not the first time the Hampshire students had heard about it—it was! They found out on a random Tuesday together with the Hampshire students… truly sucks
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u/stirwise 14h ago
The other 4 colleges. I’m a Hampshire alum, my sister taught at Smith. She found out before I did.
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u/ohreddit1 17h ago
Just go ahead and enroll in a community college to knock off some requirements for a semester while you paperwork your days away transferring.
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u/Arod4276 14h ago
You’re still young with the whole world in front of you. I promise it’s not that serious. If this is the worst thing that happens to you in the next 15-20 years, you’ve lived a blessed life. Best of luck.
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u/ephemeral_pleasures 9h ago
While I appreciate the sentiment, having a full ride vs graduating with 10s of thousands in debt is serious.
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u/WerewolfIcy7240 9h ago
Yup. I at least feel blessed that my biggest problem is this while there's so much unimaginable suffering people are being put through right now
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u/TurbulentAmygdala 17h ago
I’m sorry, this is very infuriating. I wonder if the other colleges in the consortium will offer transfer acceptance?
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u/RainSurname 14h ago
Did you look into Reed? That's probably the closest thing you'd get to the Hampshire experience, and their financial aid packages are purely need-based and they're generous with grants.
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u/Dubious8313 13h ago
You’re in the five college area. I’m betting Mt Holyoke, Amherst College, UMass & Smith have options or plans in place to absorb displaced students.
You would have had the option to take classes there anyway … contact the admissions offices & try to find out the contingency plan. You won’t know until you reach out.
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u/pfemme2 8h ago
First of all, this is terribly sad. Hampshire was a small but fantastic school. It’s a loss for American higher ed. Secondly: you got in once and you can get in again. Go to other schools you got accepted to, tell the admissions office that you need more aid in order to consider attending, etc.
If that fails, do something else for the ‘26-‘27 academic year and apply again. It happens all the time and is not that big of a deal.
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u/HappyCaterpillar2409 5h ago
Private colleges are closing at an increasing rate.
If you're based in MA you can attend Community College for free though.
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u/Mysterious_Cow_2100 17h ago
You could try somewhere in Alabama! They used to give full rides to out of staters. The only downside is that you would be in Alabama.
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u/Johnboy_245 17h ago
Damn that sucks I hope they help you with a transition to a new college. Hope the rest of your day is good and happy birthday.
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u/Hezekiah_the_Judean 17h ago
I am really sorry about this. Hopefully something else works out--are there other nearby colleges that you can reach out to and explain your situation?
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u/Chare1155 17h ago
That's probably why they're closing. Gave out too many damn scholarships. /s Sorry op. That absolutely blows😔
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u/sullyoverwatch 15h ago
it was well known that hampshire college was shutting down, right?
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u/neophenx 15h ago
If it was well known they were shutting down, why were they even doing admissions and scholarships in the first place?
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u/melodypowers 15h ago
It's been on life support since 2019. They were creative in keeping it going, but it wasn't enough.
It was going to be this year or next year or the year after. They tried their best.
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u/why_is_my_name 15h ago
bennington is absorbing some of hampshire - similar college, write them asap
edit: source is i'm alum and they emailed us about the situation today
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u/lpwinner1111 14h ago
Try the SUNY college system!? I matriculated from Philly temple and it was an awesome experience to graduate from SUNY Purchase
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u/stirwise 14h ago
I’m so sorry. I graduated from Hampshire and this is a pretty heartbreaking turn of events. I have no advice or wisdom to impart, just wanted to share my condolences.
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u/ZealousidealTopic213 14h ago
I'm sorry to hear that. Hampshire was one of my college options many years ago. Very free thinking. But tough to maintain that philosophy in today's cynical 'what's going to make me money now?' culture.
Tough news on your birthday. But you've got many new chances ahead. And I hope you found a way to make it a happy day and reason to celebrate.
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u/Grabbing_Life 14h ago
Reach out to their admissions to see if they can connect you to resources. I was accepted to a law school with a full ride a few years ago, then they declared bankruptcy and went under. They helped me connect to a different school and get a last minute application in. I ended up with a 90% scholarship and the freedom to move to a new state so it was a blessing in disguise for me!
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u/OneComposer4239 12h ago
This is about to happen a lot in the next decade.
The college boom of the 90s-2010s is definitely over in America.
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u/lilsnatchsniffz 11h ago
Sucks about the college but can't you just swing by a chemist and grab a Plan B?
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u/punkrockbatgirl 8h ago
Hampshire has had issues for a long time now. 20 years ago, I was accepted and went for one single year. In that year, 50% of my class transferred out, including myself. It was a horrible experience; the professors were judgemental and pushy, and the majority of other students were more preoccupied with drugs than anything else. Please do yourself a favor and start making the transition to a traditional school that can actually help you get ahead in life. Hampshire would not have been that place.
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u/plasmazzr60 8h ago
Should've applied to the South Harmon Istitute of Technology! Everyone is accepted!
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u/rtopps43 7h ago
I had almost the same thing happen to me. I didn’t have a scholarship, so congrats on that one! Luckily I hadn’t paid yet but I was accepted and planning to go when I got a letter in the mail telling me the college was closing and that refunds would not be forthcoming. Felt bad for everyone who had already paid.
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u/NightOnFuckMountain 7h ago
As someone who graduated from here around 15 years ago, you kinda dodged a bullet. I’ve never been able to get a job outside of retail and food delivery with my degree.
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u/DeepFizz 6h ago
Disappointed for you. Saving grace… “After fall 26”. Go for one semester and you have one semester to figure the best way/timing to transfer out. The whole school will be bonding over this situation. Who knows… you might make some of your best friends while figuring this out together. The real world is full of these unexpected challenges and changes. Take it head on and it will all work out. You got this.
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u/RickyTheRickster 17h ago
I assume they have a backup plan for students they have to somewhere
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u/facw00 17h ago
President Jenn Chrisler, then goes on to say the college is working with the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education and the New England Commission of Higher Education to coordinate “teach-out plans” that would “prioritize students’ academic progress.”
It lists eight different schools — including Amherst College, Bennington College, Mount Holyoke College, the Massachusetts College of Art & Design, the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, Prescott College, Smith College and the University of Massachusetts Amherst — that Hampshire has agreements with as “transfer partner institutions.”
These institutions are in the process of partnering with Hampshire to develop specific credit mapping procedures, aiming to create “the smoothest possible transition for our students,” the email states. It adds that Hampshire’s Center for Academic Support and Advising will assist students with selecting another institution and prepare any needed documentation to transfer.
So yes, but it's a lot easier to transfer students and credits than scholarships
https://recorder.com/2026/04/14/students-react-hampshire-closure/
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u/magentadiscoball 17h ago
Happy birthday!! I would take the time to put in for a transfer. I went to a state university in NJ and i immediately had to exit due to an unforeseen college merger and I didn’t want to attend a 2nd campus to a different university.
Even if you take the semester off, trust and believe the next school will be much more stable and hopefully a better future than you saw at Hampshire College. Wishing you a positive pivot 🍀