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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Electrical Engineering  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright Attending Cooper Union was well worth the effort. The course work is extremely rigorous, much more so at other colleges. Not too good for your GPA, but good for you. Also, I made my best friends at Cooper Union. Starting Job: Attorney, Preparedness: B-, Reputation: B- Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private) Oct 23 2008 Alumnus Male -- Class 2000   Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=55089&uid=939'></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   Chemical Engineering  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright Cooper is all it is cracked up to be, as long as the people you interview with know the school. If they don't know the school then you might as well tell them you went to a SUNY school or other state school since it won't make a difference since they are not aware of Cooper's quality. However, if they DO know Cooper, you will be in like flint. Having it on my resume has helped me quite a bit in my career path. One of the first things they tell you when you get in Cooper is that is very hard to get into the school, but it is even harder to stay in. There is such a high dropout/transfer rate in the first year it is surreal. If you do succeed in graduating, your GPA won't be great but I will tell you this, you will definitely have the skills to succeed in the real world. I was a Chem Engineering major and I can tell you that Cooper really taught me how to write a quality lab report as evidenced by my performance in my graduate studies. You will see a Campus rating on the page here. They might as well just remove that line completely - there is no campus. There are a total of five buildings, including the freshman dorms, which are contained in 2 Manhattan blocks (3rd ave and 6th thru 3rd ave and St. Marks). If you are looking for campus life, greek life and all that college fun stuff, don't goto Cooper. There is no grass, two fraternities, one sorority, no "organized" NCAA sports, etc. Besides the fact that Cooper doesn't have the funds or the student body necessary to support a field of extracurriculars, there is just too much school work to even consider participation - unless of course you don't mind having your grades suffer more than they already are. One major positive of the lack of a campus and the school being so small is that the transition from High School to Cooper is rather easy. I was at a High School where the average class size was 20-25, my entire class was 150 students, everyone was familiar with one another, and all my classes were in one building. Cooper was the exact same way . Starting Job: Teaching Assistant, Preparedness: A+, Reputation: A+ Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private) May 10 2008 Alumnus Male -- Class 2000   Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=46885&uid=939'></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   Art & Design Department  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Bright Cooper Union is, at the end of the day, a great school. It is small, so if you get depressed,overworked, or even sick there is usually someone who takes notice. This is great in those situations, though there are times you wish that you could just be a cog in the wheel so to speak, but this is very rare, and you can always just go to the NYU Library when you feel that way. The staff is almost always a gangster/specialist in their field and are usually open to experimentation as long as you are doing work. I would advise that you try to live to close to campus, though this is becoming more nebulous for art students with the Long Island City Studios. My one MAJOR critique leveled at the school is that it doesn't do what it professes: Advance science AND art. The interaction between engineers and artists is tenuous. A lot of the art students are also sometimes too Luddite-ish for my taste. This environment leads to a bit of alienation (more so than usual), if you are making work that is intra disciplinary to some extent, especially if you are getting your feet wet and trying to experiment. The past comments about a social life are pretty true. However, to be blunt, this isn't what I went to college for. If you get in the right section in Freshman year, you will make some of the greatest friendships ever, if not, you'll have to wait a year. Education Quality: A+, Useful Schoolwork: C Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Jan 08 2008 4th Year Male -- Class 2008    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=43286&uid=939'></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   Architecture  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright Make sure you are emotionally mature and ready to handle the pressure. Useful Schoolwork: A+, Extracurricular Activities: D+ Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Dec 23 2007 2nd Year Male -- Class 2007    Forward  Blog it! 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