Anti-Israel Protests at Ivy League Schools Have Top High School Students Considering Other Options
“It’s concerning for alumni of these institutions as well as prospective students”
It’s amazing that the Ivy League has allowed their image to be so damaged by so few people.
FOX News reports:
Anti-Israel Ivy League protests have prospective students looking elsewhere this graduation season
Some of the country’s top graduating high school seniors are reconsidering leading universities amid backlash over far-left protests as administrators do little to counter radical student and faculty groups who dominate headlines, campus discourse and even swaths of physical space.
“There’s a feeling of anxiety and concern, whether they need to withdraw,” said Adam Nguyen, a college admissions specialist and founder of Ivy Link, which helps some of the nation’s top high school graduates navigate their way into elite universities. “So many of my students had accepted already. But, given ongoing protests, how the schools have handled those protests, the families are concerned and exploring options to potentially pull out, which is unprecedented.”
In many cases, they’re circling back with non-Ivy schools that had accepted them but which the students had already turned down, he said.
“It’s concerning for alumni of these institutions as well as prospective students,” Nguyen told Fox News Digital. “It’s concerning for current students because it affects the value of their degrees.”
Nguyen has worked in Columbia’s admissions office and as a graduate school adviser for Harvard and is an alumnus of both universities. But he said those schools and others with like-minded leadership are suffering serious damage to their branding.
“The selling point of the Ivy League has always been you go there, you’re exposed to great ideas, great people. You form a lifelong bond with other accomplished, educated individuals, and you get a high [return] on your education investment,” he said. “Now, that reputation, the potential [return on investment] or at least the perspective of a potential ROI, has been tarnished severely in the last year or so and culminating in this climax of protests and disruptions, as well as cancellation of commencement, for example, at Columbia.”
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