"If Cooper was still free…"
Free Cooper Union has received a series of letters from applicants and students accepted to Cooper Union’s Class of 2018. These are letters from students who say no to Cooper as a direct result of the decision to destroy the school’s mission of providing free education to all admitted students. As you read these letters, consider the impact of each loss not only to the Cooper community, but also to the students themselves, who have been denied an education entrusted to them because of mismanagement perpetrated by Cooper Union’s Board of Trustees.
We published the first of these letters on May 5, and will continue to do so each day, for as long as we have letters to post.
Today’s letter is short and to the point. Simply put, tuition forced this accepted engineering student to say no to Cooper Union.
How many more of these testimonies are out there?
Email us: cooperuniosos@gmail.com
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From: KM
Date: Thu, May 1, 2014 at 4:30 PM
Subject: Why I didn’t choose Cooper
To: “cooperunionsos@gmail.com”I was accepted to Cooper Union and seriously considered attending: asked around, did my research, fell in love with the idea of living in New York City and studying engineering there. However, the half-tuition at CU made it the most expensive school I got into. I ended up choosing the University of Texas because they offered me scholarships on top of my in-state tuition rate. If Cooper was still free, I would almost certainly be going there next year. I feel as though I have lost a great opportunity at Cooper thanks to the cost.
Best of luck in your endeavors to free Cooper.
K.M.