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I just graduated from DC this year and while I had fun socializing during my four years, am now discovering how inadequate my education really was. I have not been able to get into any grad schools because of my GPA. in comparison to other schools, is very low. Getting a job is even worse because no one has ever heard of the school! I'm not considered competitive because the breadth of coursework on my transcript is not considered challenging enough or expansive enough. I should have known something was up when I consistently had trouble getting quality internships during the summer of my freshman, sophomore, and junior years...no one would take me. I finally got something last summer but it was not if the caliber I was aiming for.
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Why Davidson does not openly communicate Closeness to the Nuclear Power Plant and its Asbestos building issues that they are the worst in NC to prospective students ?

I think families and students must be openly aware of this. Davidson brags about its Honor Code; then make it work here to ?be ethical and honest and be open and upfront?.

Here are the info for issues with Campus buildings and also 5 miles close to the Lake Norman Nuclear Power Plant. Right on the lake campus.

http://www.asbestosnews.com/asbestos-areas/north-carolina/
http://www.duke-energy.com/pdfs/MNS-EPZ-Map.pdf
http://davidsonnews.net/healthandfitness/2011/03/18/watching-japan-we-wonder-are-area-nuke-plants-safe/
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Davidson = Puff the premed 90% acceptance rate; while it is not so + get the smartest students and pump out disappointed alum who have issues for admissions elsewhere + Put a Holyoke Community Collger Prof to be the head of your premed + say we are the best colleger + have very small course selection + Be on a Nuclear Power Reactor Lake and Campus (5 miles close) + say although we have the best students, half of them do not succeed when graduate + bring in minority at a 30% rate and say this is globaization + lower your standards for sports students and them make $17M on their baclk for business and not academics to support your budget + Dorms are really bad + professors are from average univeristies + graduate your students with low grades and low GPA + Be without a president for the college for 6 months and fill like it is OK + Fire your sports coaches as they do not make it + advertize it and make yourseld look big, but still small
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