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 | Bright | Here's a piece of advice, if you have a choice to go to another school, go there. AVOID Ursinus like the plague. If you want to spend 40+ thousand dollars a year to drink natty, go to Ursinus. If you want to get a late night hook up, go to Ursinus. If you want to live in a town that is an overpriced dump with a volunteer fire department with a loud air raid horn, go to Ursinus. If you want to go to a school with reject Harvard teachers who want to teach at Harvard, go to Ursinus. If you want teachers who have no understanding of the outside world, go to Ursinus. If you want to go to a school to watch field hockey, go to Ursinus. If you want to see scary Orville Redenbacher impersonators, go to Ursinus. If you want to go to a school with a bunch of people who don't take there education seriously and who are closed minded, go to Ursinus. If you want to get an education go somewhere else. And lastly if you don't believe my review go to REIMERT HALL on a Thursday, Friday, Saturday morning or any morning and look at the courtyard- don't worry you don't need a card or anything to see it. | Campus Aesthetics: A-, Social Life: F | | | |
| | Feb 20 2012 | 2nd Year Male --
Class 2011 | | Blog it!Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account:
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| Quite Bright | BEWARE: Ursinus on paper is a phenomenal school and is great at recruiting new students to the school. However, after a student is enrolled and Ursinus receives their check that student becomes just a number and a source for another check. The administration does not care about the wants and needs of current students and will do anything they can get away with in order to squeeze the most money out of their student body. The courses that are listed in the academic handbook are not reflective of what is truly offered here at school. Being a senior at this school and going through four years of battling with the class registration process has opened my eyes to how poorly Ursinus attempts to provide a student with a schedule that will allow them to graduate on time. On more than one occasion I have been told by our registration office that because all the necessary classes I need to take are full it is possible that I will have to come back for a fifth year. I want to emphasize the fact that I am on a normal track; meaning that I have not dropped classes, failed any classes or changed majors and I am still having this much trouble with the classes "offered." As a side note, the food here is abysmal and the administration here refuses to hear a single student complaint, of which there are many. When attempting to eat on campus Ursinus offers dinner only from 4:30 to 6:00 and if you miss it you have to use your meal in the lower cafeteria, where 1 meal credit does not cover enough for any type of selection. If you do decide to enroll here be prepared to have to pay every fee imaginable; for example all upperclassmen are allowed to move into dorms the Sunday before classes start and if a student wants to move in early, even one day early, it will cost them $100 a night. Also, be prepared to be hounded by Ursinus for donations to the school, even as an enrolled student who is barely able to scrape together the money needed for tuition. I want to reiterate the fact that Ursinus is great at recruiting new students but falls short on all of its promises. When I was a prospective student I heard statements similar to this but I wrote them off because of all the great things I heard about Ursinus. This school has earning money at the top of its agenda and students education and satisfaction takes a backseat to that task. So, please do not write this off as a disgruntled student, as I did when I saw testimonies such as this, and understand that the true Ursinus will be unconcerned with the education of its students, as long as the money continues to come in. Everything at Ursinus from its shameless attempt to extract as much money as possible from students to its flagrant disregard for the student?s academic wellbeing should cause any prospective student to run as far as possible from this school. | Perceived Campus Safety: A+, Individual Value: F | | | |
| | Nov 08 2010 | 3rd Year Male --
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| Quite Bright | This is a tiny school, and it will really start to feel that way after the first semester. The best advice I could give to a new student would be to get involved, get involved, get involved! Otherwise, you will definitely wanna transfer. Join a sport you played in high school..it's not hard except for maybe football, field hockey, LAX, and basketball. Seriously. You don't really hear too much about the clubs here except for the frats and sororities..which you also might consider joining. I have met some fabulous friends during rush. You really do need to get involved with the school in as many ways as you can! Or else you'll spend an unhealthy amount of time chillin in the dorm, no matter how many friends you make on your own. Campus is pretty flat most nights except Thursday and Saturday....sometimes Friday. Join a sport, club, greek life...whatever! just do it! | Faculty Accessibility: A, Surrounding City: F | | | |
| | Feb 02 2010 | 1st Year Female --
Class 2013 | | Blog it!Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account:
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