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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Political Science  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright Great university all around! (Honest) Transferred from a famous ivy university and by far, and trust me, by FAR students here are way more engaging and interesting. (You want to go to college where it is in the experience and not full of prima donna study freaks! Thats just not what undergraduate education is about, example, ivies and ivy clones.) However I noticed for one odd reason from another, comparatively speaking, it has a Nouveau Riche feel (very annoying). There is also a feeling of "too cool for school" off campus trendy culture element, which makes this school feel like a commuter school. In otherwords AU should provide more on campus housing!!! My theory is that, AU is not a famous expensive school which should explain the intake of students but hopefully more brilliant students should really consider AU as there top choice because from experience AU rivals the IVIES in terms of pedagogy, resources and institutional mission. Trust me I'm a transfer student from those "other" schools. The academic program is a little too professionally orientated such as SIS and SPA and communication and business. In other words its not that famous because AU is pretty much a professional school and not a liberal arts influenced institution. However I think the administration is seeing that flaw and trying to make it more liberal arts based (ie. learning for learning sake). This is another reason why I think brilliant students are put off by AU because its just not liberal arts/sciences enough! People here are trained a little too early on there desired careers which is the minor negative of AU. On the other hand if more brilliant students apply here and elect to take hard sciences and hard humanities such as philosophy and religion (unlike the B.S. communication or business programs) then the school will be just perfect in every aspect! I hope people are not put off by AU's anonymity compared to the IVIES and other top Research and Liberal Arts Colleges because AU is really really really good and in my opinion actually rivals these schools! Education Quality: A+, Useful Schoolwork: C Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  May 15 2007 3rd Year Female -- Class 2008    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=39003&uid=261'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save History/Histories (art history/etc.)  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Bright After reading one of the reviews, I was shocked by the comments regarding History, especially the criticism of Terrence Murphy. He is one of the best, most engaging and interesting professors I've ever encountered. Almost 8 years after my last class with him, I can still discuss with great detail many of the topics covered in his classes. If he were still there, I would continue taking classes with him. Alas, poor AU feels like they need to be GWU and the good professors are being chased out. Faculty Accessibility: A+, Individual Value: D+ Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  May 08 2007 5th Year Male -- Class 2005    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=38461&uid=261'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save Finance  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Average I transfered here to AU and love it. I live off campus so I never had a chance to live in the doorms, whcih I highly recommend for anyone coming to DC for the first time if you live off campus and do not have a set group of friends it's hard to establish that. I am also a biochem minor. The labs are old but I think they are building new ones. Don't go here if you are doing biochem because the who department consist of one professor. AU is not known for science, the pre-med program here is good though. Education Quality: A+, Innovation: B Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  May 02 2007 3rd Year Female -- Class 2007    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=38324&uid=261'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save  Prev    Select Page: 1 ... 16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24 ... 33    Next

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