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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Biology  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Average I hate this place. Do not come here if you want to make friends in ways other than partying. People at UVA are so focused on their career plans that they don't spend time getting to know many people. Throughout life I never had trouble having friends, but I feel like I have no friends at UVA (ok a few). The coursework is also very challenging and many of the classes are large, so many tests are scantron based. I always do worse on multiple choice tests than written/essay/short answer tests, so this really harms me. I feel like the only thing going for me in the prospects of finding a job is UVA's name.To make matters worse, the housing and dining situations at UVA are not impressive. UVA housing is spread out far away from classes and the dining hall food is terrible. Please just go somewhere else while you have the chance. Extracurricular Activities: A, Individual Value: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Apr 04 2012 2nd Year Female -- Class 2014    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=86384&uid=1425'></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 PreMed and Medical  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Bright I transferred here for UVa's name. As a pre-med student, you want to get straight A's, and it helps to get straight A's from a big name university. However, I now quite clearly see my transfer was a mistake. At my old university (another VA school, not a community college), I was treated as an individual and professors were always available. Here, professors have told me straight that their research is more important than their students. Go to this school if you are willing to work on your own to get involved in the research community. In that sense, UVa is a great school.As a pre-med, though, I'm in my 3rd year, and I still have classes with over 400 kids. It is ridiculous. Not only did my old school not have TAs, but, now, even in TA office hours there are over 15-20 students. There is no individual attention. Campus Maintenance: A, Individual Value: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Oct 25 2011 1st Year Male -- 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=82208&uid=1425'></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 Personally UVA is not a fit for me, and I knew that two years ago as a HS senior. However, after a year of community college, I decided to come here mostly because they had such good rankings. Now that I'm here though I feel like the rankings are pretty much worthless. Anyway, here's some pros and cons in my opinion. Classes: Sad thing to me was how big they are (300+ people!). A few professors allow questions, but most don't. If you're liberal arts, you have a much better chance of getting smaller classes, but in the sciences it is much harder. You can see the large class size as a positive though because if your professor is useless, and you decide class is not worth attending they will never know. Of course if you decide to do this it's going to take a lot of dedication, but some students actually gets better grades this way. Professors: Some are great (again mostly in the arts) but many could careless about how much their students are actually learning. Tests can be impossible, and if you're lucky there is a curve. Even when I understand lectures, I have no idea what to do with the test. I definitely feel like I'm paying to teach myself. Social Life: Study hard, party harder. If you aren't interesting in getting wasted, you might have a hard timing making friends. Hang in there though because eventually you will. Be sure to go to a lot of social events to meet people. Even though so many drink, everyone is still really nice, and you should have any problem getting alone. Oh, and football games are a lot of fun! Resources: One thing I have no complaints about is that UVA has some great resources (but find the right advisor). They have all sorts of fairs and workshops, and they are pretty well advertised. It's worth your time. Overall, UVA is just a name with a lot of fluff. Going to UVA doesn't always mean you're any smarter, just that you'll work harder to find the tricks. It's alright I suppose, but not worth it. I'll probably transfer somewhere else. University Resource Use: A-, Faculty Accessibility: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Oct 19 2011 1st Year Female -- Class 2014    Forward  Blog it! 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