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My son has been looking at colleges around America for the last year as a place to advance his academic and sport skills. The college that has grabbed most of his attention so far has been Newberry College.
Could anybody furnish me with what the town of Newberry is like? I've read a few posts and they seem to put Newberry in a very good light?
Any information about your experiences with the college would be greatly appreciated.
BTW My son plays basketball and Newberry has a Div II team. Any info. on the sports side of the college would help enormously as well.
My dad played basketball at Newberry College on a scholarship (He's from Indiana.) after turning one down from Clemson or ignoring it altogether, but he and my mom were already married and he quit the team after he came home one night and my mom said a man in their apartment building had scared her. He never was one to think something all the way through. He graduated from there, though. So did my oldest brother. And my grandparents lived in Newberry and owned a bakery on Main Street there. Newberry is a quaint town that is somewhat of a microcosm. The town doesn't grow from census to census and remains in the 10,000-people range. It is quaint with lots of big, old houses, as well as mill houses and modern ranch-style houses. The downtown has the Newberry Opera House that people from Columbia frequent. Also downtown are several restaurants and a few apartments. As in many small towns, the downtown suffered with the advent of K-Mart, then Walmart, but it has done a pretty good job of reinventing itself since the opera house was renovated a while back. Newberry College itself has good academics and is run well.
Newberry is a very small town and the college is very small - less than 1000 students. It's only about 45 minutes from downtown Columbia and less than a half hour to the northwest suburbs so it isn't far. Newberry has a very nicely restored opera house downtown that attracts some surprising shows for such a small town.
Newberry College is a good school, it's just expensive when compared to other colleges in the area. They have a good biology/chemistry/other sciences program, and they are also well-known around here for teacher education. They do have a good baseball program with a new field and athletic center.
Newberry isn't a college town, it's mostly filled with old people and families. The campus itself is set kind of off from the main part of downtown, but it's fairly close to all the amenities that college kids need (WalMart, restaurants, etc.). The campus seems pretty safe, a few of my close friends have graduated from there recently and never had any trouble. You do have to participate in Chapel on Wednesdays, because it's a Lutheran school.
Hope my insight helps! I've lived in the Berry all my life.
Newberry College is a good school, it's just expensive when compared to other colleges in the area. They have a good biology/chemistry/other sciences program, and they are also well-known around here for teacher education. They do have a good baseball program with a new field and athletic center.
I found the opposite. I considered Newberry solely for the reason that I would have had a full ride there. It's a relatively cheap private school. I think when I was looking at it 2-3 years ago the cost of attendance was around $20,000. USC and Clemson are both around that mark and private schools are usually way more.
The only person I know who currently goes there is transferring to USC. I ended up not even applying because they didn't have the major I wanted (French).
However, between the fact that I was a Newberry Junior Scholar ($8500), a Palmetto Girls State Alumnae ($8500), and in line to get the LIFE scholarship ($5000), I would have had quite the financial aid package. For someone like me, they had a very, very generous program. The other school that I found that also had a generous program was Converse College in Spartanburg, but again, didn't have French as a major.
I must mention the one thing that I found odd about the school is that it's beside a graveyard.
My son has been looking at colleges around America for the last year as a place to advance his academic and sport skills. The college that has grabbed most of his attention so far has been Newberry College.
Could anybody furnish me with what the town of Newberry is like? I've read a few posts and they seem to put Newberry in a very good light?
Any information about your experiences with the college would be greatly appreciated.
BTW My son plays basketball and Newberry has a Div II team. Any info. on the sports side of the college would help enormously as well.
As a high school wrestling coach who sent one former wrestler there on scholarship and several to their summer camps i can only relay their feedback and that is your son will focus on his studies intensely. why you ask? because according to them Newberry is BORING!!! the asst. athletic director there is a good friend of mine and more than half the enrollment plays a varsity sport there. the campus is nice but the residence halls are OLD! i walked through the freshman hall once and it was like walking back in time facility wise. i suppose you have to be an upperclassman to get 21st century dorm rooms :-). solid academics from what i can tell.
contrary to what some on here have said Newberry is a.) quite affordable and b.) does give out a lot of aide.
newberry is not known for their basketball program though sadly. they've run through a string of head coaches in the last several years. the gym itself looks like a good middle school gym.
My experiences with Newberry have not been positive. I know they treated a family member of mine very wrong and are banned from his high school coach's office because of it. He was told they were going to offer him a package of 18K to come play football. Day before signing day, his coach calls to see when they're coming so he can schedule his signing photo-op in the library and the Newberry coach says they "forgot about him" and then said they could only offer 4k instead about a month later. I know Newberry uses athletics as a way to get kids in. I know of a baseball player I coached who went there for a year and then they took away half of his financial package his sophomore year to get someone else in there and he had to leave school because he couldn't afford the difference out of pocket.
My experiences with Newberry have not been positive.
Do you have positive experiences anywhere?
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