October 1, 2008
Loren Pope Touted 'No Name' Colleges in a Brand-Name World
One night in 1999, a few hundred high-school students and parents packed the ballroom of a Boston hotel. There, they heard Loren Pope lean into a microphone and say the unthinkable.
Harvard University, he proclaimed, was a "gyp joint."
Martha (Marty) O'Connell recalls the gasps. “It was like the air had been sucked out of the room,” says Ms. O’Connell, who was then dean of admissions at McDaniel College. Here was Mr. Pope, a college consultant and a former
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