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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Education  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Super Brilliant Carlow College is now Carlow University since fall 2004, so this site needs to be updated! But, Carlow started as an All Female school. It not allows males, but no too many choose to go there. The campus looks nice from the outside, but make sure you look at where we have to live--the dorms. The shower on my floor has been broken since the beginning of this school year and is not planned to be fixed until during the summer. Water is leaking from the floor above into our shower, and the paint is peeling from the ceiling causing rust. There is also no air conditioning in the dorms, and the air is extremely dirty. But we have had our driveway paved twice in the last three months. Carlow seems to want people who visit the school to like the way it looks and want to pay to go there, but the school does not seem to care about how its students have to live! Education Quality: A+, Campus Maintenance: D- Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Feb 22 2005 1st Year Female -- Class 2007    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=15053&uid=1149'></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   Biology  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Bright Where to begin with carlow college. Umm, this school sucks, but at the same time can be very rewarding. Being a science major here is awesome because the school has a whole building dedicated just to that, which has brand new state of the art equipment. It's also nice because it's a small school, so you don't have to sit in class with 75+ people. Unfortunetely this is also a bad thing, because your teachers will get to know you and almost all of them have attendance policies (miss 3 days you fail). The other thing is that from my experiences here the financial aid department is worthless, unless you are willing to research all the loan and grant information on your own and bring it to them. Most of the professors at this school don't even really care about what's going on in the class either, the only professors that I came across that actually earned their paychecks were: Dr. Schumaker, Dr. Toth, and Dr. Stewert. The computer labs are always fucked up (I.E. computers missing keyboards, or printers being broken) and the IT department is worthless when it comes to fixing anything. The living situation is even more bleak, if you're a male student you can't live on campus, and if you're a female student you can't have overnight visitors. The cafeteria is disgusting it's always infested with gnats, and it operates on very limited hours. Oh and for potential male students, regardless of what the school tells you, the coed student body thing is bull shit, they won't help you find a place to live, and there are professors that will make it abundantly clear that you're not welcome here. The other big problem I had was with the students here. Most of the students that come here are either from very well off families of from hicksville, usa. The "rich" kids will make it a point to let you know that they have money, and the hicks will just annoy you. The other problem is that everyone goes home on the weekends, so come friday afternoon the campus is dead. Overall this is a nice school if you're a science major and you're looking for a small college, but if you're looking for a fun collge experience you won't find it here, so on both counts I would say pass this place up and keep going unless you really like pittsburgh. Education Quality: A, Campus Maintenance: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  May 23 2004 1st Year Male -- Class 2005    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=10126&uid=1149'></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   Psychology  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright Carlow is not a regular college. It is quite often refered to as a high school enviroment only missing the bells between classes. Don't come to this school with the expectation of being able to skip classes and get away with it like you can at big colleges. They take attendence in most classs and if you get more then three absences with out a really good excuse (Parent dead or you hospitalized) then you fail the class. My classes so far have had between 9 and 20 students though some people I know are in classes as small as 2 people and as large as 27. If you are looking at being a dorm student here, my advice would be not to. The fire alarm in the dorms goes off at least twice a week typically between 3 and 6 am and nothing ever gets fixed in the dorms. There is also a new rule on campus completely forbidding overnight guests. For those of you reading this that smoke, there is no smoking in the dorms and there is also no smoking anywhere where there will be a roof above your head other then outside AJP which also might be changing to no smoking soon. Anyone looking at driving to school, DON'T park in Lot C unless you absolutely have to. There is constantly cars broken into in Lot C day and night. Currently the only security guard in Lot C is a female who only has a can of mace and is too afraid to do anything about the break ins. To park in Lot A you have to arrive at the Lot before 8:15am. Lot B constantly has people coming an going but for the best chances of getting a parking space you would have to get there before 8am. Lot C never really fills up because it is a huge open lot with most of it not being paved and everyone parks where ever they want. I've got stuck in this lot before by people parking in the only way out. Bus transportation to and from Carlow is relatively good. If you buy your bus pass from student affairs you get a 10% discount. There is quite a few bus stops around the school that can take you to almost anywhere around Pittsburgh. Transfering into or out of this school is made very difficult by weird course names and different credit allotments. Several people I know that transfered into Carlow are having to go a total of 6 years including the 2 years at the previous school. So if you are looking at transfering make sure the credits work first. The Honors program here is fairly rewarding mainly for getting to register anytime you want starting on the first day of senior registration. However, practically none of the advisors know anything about the Honors program so you have to ask your advisor to check with the registrars office if you want to register early. You will also have to take your form down to the office instead of registering online. If you decide to go to Carlow and you're not familiar with the area some things you have to keep in mind are: You need to be ready to hike up and down a hill all day as the entire campus is on a huge hill. You need to watch for the opposite flowing buses when crossing Fifth Ave to get to and from AJP. Most of the people at Carlow went to High School together at one of the Catholic schools in Pittsburgh, thus most people already know each other. Faculty Accessibility: A+, Campus Maintenance: D Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Nov 23 2003 1st Year Female -- Class 2006    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=7171&uid=1149'></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   History/Histories (art history/etc.)  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Bright Although Carlow is full of great people, that is not enough to support a good learning experience. Furthermore, Carlow cannot be classifed as a normal college experience-so if that's what you want, don't come here. Granted finical aid is amazing, Carlow does not live up to it's promises. Individual Value: A, Campus Maintenance: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Feb 03 2003 2nd Year Female -- Class 2005    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=3675&uid=1149'></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:    Next

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