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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Design Arts - Industrial Design/Graphic Design/etc  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright I'm a Broadcast design major who's been through quite alot in the 3 years I've been here. First of all, the classes are great and you'll learn alot in them, but you have to watch out for poor professors who have little/no teaching experience. SCAD has a very high professor turn-over rate and it shows with many professors being new to the college environment. Outside of the classes though, the college is a mess. The much touted student bus system is average at best. Dorms are over-priced and even more expensive than getting an appartment in the city. The meal plan is bland, poorly cooked, sometimes blantly unhealthy, and highway robbery at nearly $6 a meal. You also won't be able to even use all your meals, because the meal redeption system is arranged so that you're prohibited from eating for certain periods of time and classes are poorly scheduled to allow students a chance to eat. While the faculty are usually very helpful, the other departments will all treat you like you don't deserve the time of day. Financial aid and the bursar will often give you mis-information or not know what they are even talking about, they also send important information to incorrect addresses fairly often. The mail system is even more useless, as packages and letters take an extra 2-3 days to go through the college's mail system before they're even available for pick-up, if that. Communication between administration and students is laughable, with an email system that can sometimes take weeks or even months to deliver mail to other addresses within the college's own network. Computer labs are often crowded or uncomfortable during common working hours and labs are ALWAYS poorly airconditioned. Security is a joke, as guards are often lax and asleep at their posts when they aren't overly interogating every person who tries to walk by. College security's job is to protect the college's property, not the students. Crime and racial tension are VERY high in Savannah, you need to have at least a little bit of street smarts to avoid the vagrants and gangs that wonder very close to the dorms and campus facilities. College grounds are very safe, but if you're not in sight of a security guard, you're not on college grounds, even walking between adjacent buildings can be dangerous due to the large blind spots.The education is great and the facilities are there, but your biggest problem at SCAD is always going to be the administration. Useful Schoolwork: B+, Surrounding City: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Jan 03 2007 3rd Year Male -- Class 2009    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=35244&uid=342'></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 Unknown  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment WORST. SCHOOL. EVER. Avoid like AIDS. Preparedness: -, Reputation: - Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Dec 23 2006 Male -- Class 2000   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=35131&uid=342'></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 Perfomance Arts  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright I must add my own two cents in this mirage of SCAD bashing. I have been a student of the college for the past three years and I love it. I have heard many of the rumors and myths, but in actuality I haven’t had any problem with the administration at all. What I love about SCAD is that it always changes. Every year there are new buildings, well…old warehouses and schools that were renovated; new state-of-the-art studios, and everything. The dorm situation does piss me off quite a bit though, with over 7,000, the school is running out of beds to put us in, but they are building new dorms. SCAD is practically a “new” school and has not been around for centuries like RISD and Parsons and therefore still needs to polish her image and get all of her administrative stuff in order. The city of Savannah had a reputation as a "pretty woman with a dirty face" well SCAD now has a reputation as a "pretty woman with a dirty soul." Education Quality: A+, Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Oct 15 2006 3rd Year Female -- Class 2008    Forward  Blog it! 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