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The State University of New York Westchester Community College

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Let me start by saying, there a fewQuite BrightUndecided
Let me start by saying, there a few great people, please note that few is the emphasis of this sentence. The students are for the most part duller than a worn out chisel. Most are disrespectful, crude, and speak a version of the English language as if to them a rap video is akin to Webster’s. The night classes are a-lot better, more serious students and the professors seem more at ease. I got in there by looking up everything about college entrances except the deadlines, a mistake I regret very much. The advisors are of no help what so ever, and the bureaucracy of the place is disorganized, at its best. As for my dear fellow students, there are those who are not in some way insane or a stand in for Lennie Small, but will avoid others at all cost, can not blame them myself. It is a community college in a wealthy county, which means for the most part you are going to be knee deep in the lumpenproletariat of the county. The cafeteria staff is friendly, but the food is like what I imagine is served for brunch in a Chinese prison. If you get in, the first thing you need to do, if you have any ambition, is to try and get out.
1st Year Male -- Class 2009
Friendliness: C+, Education Quality: F
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I just started attending this ( I honestlyQuite BrightOther
I just started attending this ( I honestly dont even want to call it a college, more like high school, with adults..) The school's atmosphere is very Bi-polar, and I know it was stated that almost everyone on this campus is on some drug (very true..) I dont see potential from a lot of people at this 'institution' to want to even make it out. A very small percentage do, and those are the ones smart enough to transfer as soon as possible. Campus life, their might as well be none. The kids only go to the meetings for the free stuff. Half the school if snooty rich kids with BMW that their parents will always pay their expenses and are only their to prove to the world that they can do something easy like go to college..The admission process is CRAZY..lets just say you have a better shot of applying for Welfare, cause when you apply, they usually mess EVERYTHING up and expect you to fix it. THEN, they take forever on something that could take two minutes to answer. ONCE I LEAVE THIS SCHOOL I WILL NEVER RETURN TO IT..its a one time mess up type of feeling...
1st Year Male -- Class 2012
Faculty Accessibility: B, Useful Schoolwork: F
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WCC is such an overrated school.Other
WCC is such an overrated school. Before I started there everybody told me how great of an experience I would have and that the professors are phenomenal and what not. Truth is the college just a dump. There is really nothing that great about it whatsoever. There is no pride and everyone just goes to get their classes out of the way and leave. It is pretty obvious who actually cares about doing well in school and who doesn't.

The professors are terrible, some were actually pretty good but for the most part I had probably the worst teachers I've ever had in my life. They don't really teach you anything instead they just try to get you to pass and that's it you get nothing out of it after the semester ends. Every time I thought I would actually learn something, I learned absolutely nothing no matter how hard I worked or studied. I always felt like I was getting a slap in the face for doing everything I was supposed to be doing when it came to assignments, tests or whatever it was. There were to many lectures and barely learning any material or concepts. A lot of teachers didn't have a handle on their own subject either. I kept being told I was gonna get the best education from WCC, in two years I learned nothing from the college and got help from tutors, friends and had to learn so much on my own.

Not to mention the parking, it is so inconvenient its not even funny. Its almost always full especially when the semester starts, if your late for class because of parking and/or traffic being so bad and its not your fault, the teacher doesn't care one bit. The first thing you'll see if you google Westchester Community College is "Did you know that WCC has 25 acres of parking?" Gee I wonder how thats working out.

Its barely even modernized, the whole campus looks exactly the way a campus would probably look like in the 60s or 70s with the exception of the Gateway building that opened a couple of years ago. If anybody wants to workout in the weight room I warn you don't even bother the weights and machines are as old as our grandparents and the room is disgusting, they don't clean out the garbage in there enough and theres so much dust and mold. If you wanna play pick up basketball in the gym thats not gonna happen, the security guards will give you a hard time no matter what.If anyone is considering a community college go to Dutchess, Rockland or Orange or anywhere else. Dutchess has dorms and Rockland and Orange are really good schools as well plus they're much cheaper than WCC. Here's something probably everyone is too ashamed to admit, WCC has a 10% graduate rate and less than 20% transfer from WCC. So much for being one of the top colleges in the country. The only reason people end up going back is maybe because of financial reasons not that anybody really wants to go back.

Alumnus Male -- Class 2000
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