![]() ![]() But this school is an almost brand new academic institution. I don't think that it's a scam, if we're talking about a scam being grabbing someone's money and running with it. She's very smart so I guess that it came to me as a surprise that she chose this institution over one of the Ivy Leagues. Thinks that spending 4 years at a university is useless when he's in the process of building a startup -type of person.Įdit: They also seem to be accredited just recently (July 2021) with WSCUC, so it's fully legit now ig. My friend that goes there is very much the unconventional anti-college person. That being said, it's definitely not for everyone. ![]() For Minevra, you don't necessarily pay for the education quality, more so you pay for the potential connections and the unique experience (of immersive living abroad).Īs for the for-profit issue, here's a good quora answer that discusses/debunks that. ![]() There also seems to be a trend that quite a lot of semi-successful student YouTubers as well as semi-rich kids wanting the business connections attend there.Ĭlasses/lectures are all online and you usually rotate between 7 different countries iirc, so you get a very different experience from the traditional college experience. The students that attend Minerva (I know a friend that "goes" there) are the type of people that actually don't need college because they already have the passion and talent/ability to start their own business etc, but need the piece of paper for societal reasons that you're given at graduation that says you got a degree. It's a scam in the sense of it's not the type of college experience many people that apply expect (because they didn't do enough research). I was wondering if anyone here knows anything and can tell me what's up? This place seems exciting but I don't wanna waste my time with it.ĭisclaimer: I'm personally not a fan, but I'm just stating facts here. There's conflicting info everywhere and it's getting hard to weed through. I heard too that their accreditation only comes through their association with Keck Graduate Institute. ![]() Also, they are super vague with their outcomes stats among other things. They are known for having a super low acceptance rate but I have heard they skew it by counting any submission of info on their website as an acceptance (email, name, anything). The courses are virtual yet are supposedly really intense.īut there are a couple sketchy things I wanted to run by you all. But the way it's designed sounds really cool, you live in San Francisco during Year 1 and then each of the next 6 semesters is in a different city like Seoul or Buenos Aires or London. Currently, Matthews serves as the Donald Everett Axinn Fellow at the Academy of American Poets and teaches craft seminars, as well as workshops, at the Writing Salon.Recently I found this school called Minerva University - it's super new and for-profit, so I'm a little wary. Her collaboration with micro press and reading series Red Light Lit resulted in the publication of Unearth in 2020, and the poetry collection was listed as part of Kirkus Reviews' Best Indie Poetry of 2020. She has been nominated for Best New Poets 2022 by Tahoma literary Review, and her work has been nominated for Best of the Net. Her poetry has appeared in Southern Indiana Review, the Rumpus, Tahoma Literary Review, Foglifter Journal, The New Republic, Green Mountains Review and others. She earned her BA in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and holds an MFA in creative writing-poetry from New York University. Matthews is a poet, author and educator originally from San Francisco, California. Thea Matthews reads from her book of poetry, Unearth. ![]()
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