From: Stan Premy [mailto:stan@stanpremy.org] 
Sent: Sunday, May 6, 2018 9:04 AM
To: Admissions at Franklin Pierce University <ADMISSIONS@franklinpierce.edu>; Eric Murdoch <Murdoche@franklinpierce.edu>
Subject: The enrollment of Fortune Premy in the Fall 2018, the joy and a significant disappointment

 

Three things made Franklin Pierce the best fit for Fortune:
1) She has been interested in becoming a television anchor person announcer for some years.
2) She enjoys Mathematics and is interested in a minor in business analysis/ finance/ accounting and her Math teachers have encouraged her to pursue a Math related career.
3) She is a swimmer.

Our first and only campus visit to Franklin Pierce was at the invitation of the head swim team coach.
I spent one thousand five hundred dollars to become a member of NCSA (Next College Student Athlete) to help her to choose a college that would allow her to continue to swim on a team.  She has been pursued by dozens of colleges across the United States.

Today Fortune signed up for classes in the Fall of 2018.  The first question the counselor asked her was, “Are you an Athlete?” When she affirmed that she is a swimmer she was told, “We no longer have a swim team.”

Fortune has always been a student first and an athlete second.  So she had not committed to swim at Franklin Pierce.  She held it as a likely option once she established her course load and academic goals would allow for swimming.

Not long after her registration for classes (noting a lack of excitement) I asked her if she knew there was no longer a swim team would she have chosen _______ University which was very much in consideration.  Her quiet pensive response was, “I don’t know.”

Earlier this week as our scheduled appointment for registration approached.  I spent quite a bit of time perusing the Women’s Athletics Swim team page on your web site.  No where does it state that there is no longer a swim team.

One day ago this message came to her from NCSA:
admissions@franklinpierce.edu
1 day ago
Congrats Fortune! You're officially a Raven...now what?

 

 

I remain confident (as does Fortune) that the Marlin Fitzwater Center for communication will serve her well in achieving her goal to become a television broadcaster and/or Actuary.  But I must register my disappointment that Franklin Pierce has inadvertently misrepresented itself.

Stan Premy
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stan@stanpremy.org