The State University of New York Westchester Community College

WCC was never my first choice, but it just got worse as time went on.
As much as the campus is beautiful, the quality of education is not quite tip-top, to say the very least. To begin with, I take a class in which all the teacher does is play movies and show power-points and I have to sit there and think, "How did I end up here after graduating High School in only 3 years?" and my second thought of "Why am I paying for this?" I take another class in which I am nearly laughing because the material is so remedial if I didn't laugh, it would insult my intelligence to be sitting there. I am not trying to sound arrogant, but it's just the cold hard truth. I get nothing out of most of my classes. Yes, the teachers I have seem to be very amicable and helpful, but the classes they teach do nothing for me.

I have been at the college almost three full months and have met approximately 1 person who is not a druggie and a drunk and my only friend happens to be both. I have severely lowered my standards of proper companionship in order to make friends here. Essentially, every time I step foot on campus, I become depressed and shut down. As an empath, I know that I am not the only person who feels this way. A lot of kids walk around as I do- alone and distraught with no intention to open up. And it isn't only because they're drunks and druggies looking for their next fix, it's because they don't want to be there and are only there due to financial reasons. I have only been here about 3 months and I am already looking to transfer out....and looking desperately. The only reason I am here is because I graduated early and my parents don't want me to go away. This is a plea; if you are looking to enter this college, DON'T. If you are in this college, GET OUT ASAP.

1st Year Female -- Class 2015

Campus Aesthetics: A+, Collaboration/Competitive: F

My main issue with WCC is the registration process. They repeatedly screwed up anything to do with me registering for classes. Even after I completed my first semester I had to make multiple trips to the Admissions office to get registered for the next semester. They messed up transferring my credits from a previous college. As of today they still have not corrected the problem. Every time I talk to someone I get a different answer to the same question. The list goes on and on. I have wasted so much time during the registration process that I would never recommend this school to anyone that prefers to stay sane.

The second issue I have an issue with is the quality of students that attend WCC. I guess one could argue that this is a community college so my expectations should be low. But I didn't realize how low they would have to be. I personally witnessed students playing on Facebook or browsing the internet during class. And those are the ones that even bothered to show up. We started out with 30 people in class. By the third week in we were down to half that. Near the end of the class only 10 people or less were showing up for class. And some of them would repeatedly ask me what they had to do. I was amazed at the lack of motivation or interest from most of the students. There were maybe 4 or 5 students that even had a chance of passing let alone getting a good grade.I decided to attend WCC due to financial reasons. I pay cash for all my classes at the start of each semester. I figured I could save a lot of money by getting my 2 year degree first then transferring to a good 4 year college. What I found is that you get what you pay for. I have a 4.0 GPA and have been asked to join the honors program. This doesn't really mean much when I barely apply myself and I'm getting all A's. The bottom line is that so far WCC is not a place where I feel I've been challenged.

1st Year Male -- Class 2014

Useful Schoolwork: A, Collaboration/Competitive: F