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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Undecided  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright I had poor high school grades and middling SAT scores when I applied at SUNY Cobleskill. I applied because I knew their standards were low enough to allow me to be accepted. Even with that in mind, I was going to be attending a college, and thus expected some challenging but manageable work. I couldn't have been more wrong. I spent 3 semesters at Cobleskill. Maybe it was just because I was an undecided/liberal arts major, but just about every class I took there was a joke. I expected this for the first semester or two, as I took the most basic of classes, but it was the norm was all three, and would've been for the fourth, after which I'd have gotten an associate's degree that wouldn't have been worth the paper it was printed on. One professor talked constantly about her family, another about his political views, often droning on for the entire class about them. Naturally, these were entirely unrelated to any work we were going to be doing. Classes that had educational value were the exception rather than the norm. There was also the disturbing trend of some of the best professors being semi-retired part timers, as well as the even more disturbing fact that many of the professors had no business teaching the subjects they were. I had a professor with her doctorate in psychoanalysis teaching an english class, another who was a computer science professor teaching philosophy, and so on. Perhaps this is the norm, and due to the fact that Cobleskill is mainly an agriculture and technology college. Perhaps. But these classes I speak of counted just as much toward degrees as any others offered there. I would advise anyone attending Cobleskill to do so only under the following conditions. If you are an agriculture major, the school is supposed to be one of the best, or so I'm told. If you had poor high school grades, then this is an excellent place to make yourself look better before transferring. Campus Aesthetics: A, Education Quality: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Sep 09 2008 2nd 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=54178&uid=1012'></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 Communications  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright Cobleskill is honestly what you make it. you determine your happiness. It's normally a ladder school...many students come her to step up, meaning only to transfer to a better school. some teachers are cool, some are assholes. its normally the country kids vs. the city kids... majority get along. The campus is safe, UPD and cops are right there. Parties often get shut down quick due to foolishness.... Dorms are a good size, larger then most schools, in some buildings you are allowed to control your heat. classes aren't too hard, their normal. Food, it's not bad but majority of students prefer to go in town to eat. the Town is very small, but its comfortable and their is a bus to get around if you don't have a car. the worst part of cobleskill is the snow, but you should expect that when you picked the school. All in all its okay, I chose to transfer to a better school. like i said cobleskill is what you make it. Education Quality: A+, Collaboration/Competitive: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Jul 26 2011 2nd Year Female -- Class 2011    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=79459&uid=1012'></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 Animal Studies  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Super Brilliant Don't go here if you're a person of color expecting to meet and greet people with open arms. The people in this small town of cobleskill are very closeminded and actually quite racist. Even the mayor got fired recently for saying "niggers." Seriously, bad place for diversity even despite the whole international students club, which mainly consists of egyptians (95%). This is my second year and I despise it. Anyone can pretty much get into this school from high school. My major is very challenging but that's the only thing that's worth staying for. People here have no drive and they just don't care about doing good, everyone is rushing to leave class early while half-assing the lab work. Scholastic Success: A+, Collaboration/Competitive: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Oct 26 2010 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=72317&uid=1012'></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  2  3  4  5    Next

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