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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Criminal  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright This website haunted me when I had decided to attend Adelphi University. The reviews here are VERY biased and one-sided. Even though I am only in my second semester here, I can give you a decent overview of Adelphi University. My background: Criminal Justice major, student-athelte, white, in-state commuter student Adelphi is a good school. However, it is VERY expensive. If you're looking to dorm, expect $40,000 a year. If you have the money (and I don't mean loans!) you should look into Adelphi. If Adelphi offers you a decent scholarship, you should look into AU. There are those classes and there are those professors that are terrible. But for the most part, the professors and faculty at AU are easy to work with and are quite helpful. The classes are not very challenging as long as you have a decent understanding of time management. Pay attention, do your work, you'll be fine. Make sure to ask other students which professors are good and are easy to work with when making your schedule. The campus is beautiful. However, the campus is VERY small. Parking is terrible. Adelphi is approximately 75% commuter students from Long Island so the lots are PACKED during the day. All of the buildings, besides a few dorm halls, are quite new. Garden City is a stuck up rich town. Its beautiful, but the people are very stuck up. There is a small town a block from the school. The train station to Manhattan is a block from campus. The biggest mall on the Island is five minutes away, Roosevelt Field. Jones Beach and Long Beach are fifteen-twenty minutes away. If you dorm, the weekends are a ghost town. Like I said, Adelphi is approximately 75% commuter students who live at home. Night life ON CAMPUS sucks at Adelphi. If you're looking to drink and have fun in the dorms, this isn't the school for you. The RA's and administration are very strict about on campus drinking. Its a DRY CAMPUS. However, local bars have college nights, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, sometimes Saturday, 18+ you can definitely have fun at these places (Nachos, Dizzy's, McHebes, Dublin's, etc). But these places can get stale. There are off campus parties, you'll hear about them if you're social. My number one piece of advice to you is this: GET INVOLVED. If you're a commuter, GET INVOLVED especially! Do you want to go to class, go to work, and go home to be your daily routine for four years? You'll go insane. Join clubs. Join a fraternity or a sorority (the BEST way to meet people and become involved). Intramural teams. Hell, if you're athletic, try and walk onto an official NCAA team. Give it a shot. Adelphi is Division 2, the sports aren't THAT talented. Just whatever you do, make sure you get involved at Adelphi. Make the most out of what they offer and you'll enjoy every day there. The people who are complaining and bashing AU are those that had one bad experience here. Or the people that never got involved. Or the people who came to Adelphi and couldn't afford the tuition. This is college ladies and gentlemen. Let's use our heads. Think about this decision, its one of the most important decisions of your life. To recap...consider Adelphi if: - a small campus and an expensive tuition doesn't bother you - you received a scholarship, either academic, athletic, or both - you will be playing a sport (NCAA) - you are interested in Greek life - you want to be a nursing major, psych major, or education (STEP PROGRAM) Good luck and I hope to see you here! Campus Aesthetics: A, Useful Schoolwork: C Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Mar 15 2012 1st Year Male -- Class 2015    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=85992&uid=912'></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 Business - Management and Administration  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Bright First things first, I have a lot to say on this topic. I think that Adelphi University is a great school if you want a Nursing program or even an Education since those two progams are absolutely amazing and actually set you up for the real world with jobs...etc. I feel like with this school if you don't know someone within your major that could pull strings to get an internship or a hook up with a job then you are pretty much doing everything on your own. They throw lessons and lectures at you and expect you to just sponge everything up without really understanding the material. With dorming and tuition the school is EXPENSIVE, i pay $40,000 A YEAR. You would think a school that your paying so much for you would get so much academic and social experience from but NO you really don't. Every other day you get campus wide emails from someone saying there is a Water shutdown in one of the buildings or a Heat shutdown, whatever the case may be. You would have thought that wouldn't really be an issue every other week for a school with such high tuition. Makes you think where your money is really going. If you are in high school and attending an event like Students Acceptance Day, Open House, Info Sessions...etc, if you want to see what the students and people are TRULY like grow some balls and go up to a RANDOM Adelphi student and have a brief convo with them and you will see exactly how it is. Everyone who works the events, people at the registration table, people speaking to you directly, tour guides...etc are all HIRED by a marketing department and are SUPPOSEDDDDD to be nothing but nice and nothing but positive about the University. If you want a true outlook of the school go to it and sit in a regular class as a perspective student and speak one on one with someone instead of listening and observing. The social life here is just like high school except its college. If you are not in a fraternity or sorority or in any clubs on campus you are a loser and are left out since you don't really know about any upcoming parties...etc. Safety is the one thing that is good about this school but yet it is also a bad thing. They are SO supervised in this school and have so many rules in the dorm rooms that you almost feel like you don't have your own freedom. Granted you learn how to do your own laundry, how to live on your own and manage time and money but as far as little things go as in privacy, being you (blasting any type of music you want), having whoever you want over your dorm for how ever long, even doing or straightening your hair (girls) IS LIMITED! It's crazy how much I didn't realize it until now that I am in this college (I'm a Junior), that I didn't make the right choice in going here. Perceived Campus Safety: A+, Social Life: D- Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Jan 13 2012 1st Year Female -- Class 2013    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=84415&uid=912'></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 Math  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright I'm a freshman here, and I realize I've made a huge mistake by going here. The school is completely dead 24/7, the weather kills everything, parties are impossible to get into (and if you dont party youre going to end up staying in the dorms watching movies every day), and people tend to either bitch about how they turned down better schools due to price or think the school is much better than it is (this school has NO reputation at all). As for academics, the school is broke, so majors and classes are impossible to get into. They open classes for freshmen on 7 AM on a random day, and kids literally flipped out and started breaking things when they realized that they couldn't get into their classes of choice. Other kids have to leave because the school drops majors every year. It's pathetic how difficult it is to get into classes in this school. Perceived Campus Safety: A, Useful Schoolwork: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Nov 12 2011 1st Year Male -- Class 2014    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=82771&uid=912'></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 ... 3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11 ... 19    Next

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