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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Business - Management and Administration  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Bright I think this school is really great. I was a little bit scared to go at first thinking I would find a bunch of really smart intellectual people that just cared about grades, because I do want to party in college... but I luckily found the greek system which was just what I was looking for.. I have managed to stay really academically challenged within my classes, but also have a really great social life. However, if I wasn't in the greek system, I honestly don't know how great it would be. It's a small school and being greek I have got to know a lot of people, and the parties are pretty sweet until the neighbors bitch & whine or the cops show up breaking it up... I don't thinkt he frats have enough parties and the school is getting lame about cracking down on their parties... also campus security is getting lame. I called for a ride home from a party and they refused to because they thought I was going to a different party, so I was stuck walking like 15 blocks... Campus Aesthetics: A+, Surrounding City: C Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Nov 29 2008 2nd Year Female -- Class 2011    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=55889&uid=1461'></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   Political Science  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright UPS is a great school with wonderful professors and staff. The administration can, on occasion, seem a little out of touch, but in general they do a good job. ACADEMICALLY: The school has excellent social science programs. Politics and Government, Economics, and IPE are all top-flight. History, English and other liberal arts are also very good. There is a solid music program. Science-wise, the school is good, but I wouldn't come here for the science alone. The Math department is very friendly, and very willing to work with students who are struggling. Although the upper level Math/Csci program isn't amazing, it's fairly good. SOCIALLY: UPS is mildly diverse. Certainly, there are minority students on campus (although that's hardly a guarantee of diversity). The Associated Student Union is out of touch, poorly run, and pointless, but so is every other such organization. Clubs aren't always great, but some of them are quite good. If you like to party, there's always quite a few over the weekend. STUDENTS: Students tend to be fairly bright, although nothing to write home about. The student body is not as cliquish as it would like to think, and there are good people to be found anywhere you look. Of course, there's also an equal number of self-important, snobbish douchebags, but they transfer soon enough. Generally, if you're actually looking, you can find a cool group of people to hang out with. The hippies and pot-heads can get fairly tiring, but they're also fairly easy to ignore. Education Quality: A+, Campus Maintenance: B Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Nov 25 2008 2nd Year Male -- Class 2011    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=55833&uid=1461'></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   Language - French/Spanish/etc.  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Bright As UPS becomes more well-known and selective it is slowly becoming a more diverse and interesting place to be, but it'll take at least 10 years before it really becomes anything that special. Don't get me wrong, it could be a lot worse, but UPS is a rather unexceptional place right now. I'll break up my points into a little list that's easier to read :-) * like I said this is beginning to change, but most of the time when you ask people where they're from they're gonna say Portland (and by that they usually mean boring suburbs like Beaverton but they say Portland anyway), Colorado or Minnesota. Coming in a close second is the Seattle/Tacoma area (i.e. Bellevue, Federal Way, etc). This school's idea of diversity is people from Alaska and Idaho, and occasionally they recruit black kids within the surrounding community. It gets kind of monotonous after a while. Oh yeah, and the kids from Portland are OBSESSED with Portland, it's kind of annoying. *because everyone is from the same places, it gets really cliquey here really quickly, which means that if you don't find a "group" to be in within the first 2 weeks of school you're kind of screwed socially. *the university hasn't had enough housing to accomodate its students for 20 years, which lead to people being forced to live off-campus and from there people CHOOSING to live off-campus. So basically after your freshman or sophomore year people start looking for off-campus houses. I think this is cool in some ways because it offers something different from your typical private school, but it makes the annual housing lottery weird and stressful and it makes it so that campus life at night is pretty dead after 7 PM or so. This is also the administration's fault, because they use the apathy as an excuse to not arrange anything to happen on campus late at night. Which means that the entire campus will go to the same 3 frat/off-campus-house parties, and it's really awkward and boring. And then whoever doesn't like to drink every weekend is left in the dust. *going off from the last point, the off-campus aspect means that the only people who are active on-campus with clubs,etc are the people who live on-campus, the people in frats/sororities since their houses are right off-campus, and then whoever else happens to care. It reminds me of high school - people show up for the first club meeting for the free pizza or whatever, and then everyone disappears. It's a little depressing. But part of this is because everyone worries about money so everyone is working during most of their free time. which leads into my next point- *I like UPS because it's really not a stereotypical private school where Muffy sails on daddy's private yacht and pops her collar- people are mostly middle class-ish, and everyone works and is down-to-earth and respectful of the non-professor staff. The problem is that almost EVERYONE here needs substantial financial aid (95% of the kids here are on some form of fin. aid), but UPS isn't quite at a place yet where it can give sufficient financial aid to everyone. If you were a high achiever in high school they'll throw $$$ at you (that's why I could afford to attend UPS), but otherwise most people are only getting a small grant, work study and tons of loans for a 40K school. People don't have a ton of time for hobbies or things they might be passionate about because they have to work and do school, and people are really stressed all the time. It makes the atmosphere kind of blah and depressing and apathetic. meanwhile, the school keeps renovating buildings that don't need renovating, and that's where the money goes. I think UPS would be a better place to be if it could afford to make itself truly affordable to its students. *UPS has pretty good sports teams but I'm not sure how many people actually care, which is sad. *Tacoma is really pretty but there isn't a whole lot to do here unless you're an outdoorsy person, which means you go to rainier to go skiing every weekend you can. people like to call tacoma "tacompton" and say that tacoma is all ghetto and scary and sketchy, and some parts of it are, especially at nighttime, but it isn't that bad. some people are really sheltered and need to get a clue I guess. *the academics here are really good. business and biology seem to be really common majors, but those are common majors everywhere. this is really overall not a very intellectual school, so I'm not sure how much the faculty here are appreciated. overall UPS has a lot of potential, but right now it's kind of boring and blah. they're beginning to recruit a lot of kids like me who are "high profile" (really good students, or kids who went to private prep schools), but UPS doesn't really have much to back up its reputation right now, so a TON of kids in my class are thinking about transferring. a lot of them probably won't because they've made friends here. and I have too, but I don't want to waste any more of what are supposed to be some of the best years of my life here. Faculty Accessibility: A, Social Life: D Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Mar 08 2008 1st Year Female -- Class 2011    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=45092&uid=1461'></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 The University of Puget Sound: a small university, generally comfortable for the naive, close-minded, apathetic, and white children of America's suburbia. I suggest you avoid this place if you have strong cultural roots, are a person of color, creative, talented, passionate, and seeking a new experience every day. TRADITIONS: Generally pathetic. There is a big dance performance done in a High School auditorium, because the University does not have one big enough. There is a Hawaiian cultural celebration because there are about 50 Hawaiians that go here. They dance for this one and it is small enough to fit in our auditorium. However, it is disturbing to see that half the dancers are overweight, white males from--yes, you guessed it--Imaho, Wussconsin, and Minnecokea...There is also a chemistry magic show that is kinda cool. Things explode, and the locals know this, so they all bring there kids. Then there is...um...wait...I know this...ah...no, that's it. ENTERTAINMENT: There is a dollar movie on Friday's and Saturday's. Sometimes there is student music on Friday. Sometimes there are student drama performances. You could go to these, but you might be better off soaking your eyes in hydrochloric acid or putting your head next to a 747-400 GECF6 engine. From what I observe, most students devote themselves to smoking lots of weed and drinking four, five, and sometimes six years of PBR. The coolest people on campus are the outdoorsy types. If you somehow find yourself here, find them! You can go hiking, biking, skiing, and rock climbing. FOOD: There are two little cafe's. Both are OK. There is a pizza place which is also OK. Finally, there is a cafeteria , this is OK as well. If you end up going here, make it a priority to find friends that know how to cook or learn to cook yourself, because the provided food is not meant for long-term intake. EDUCATION: Decent. Almost all the professors are chill and available. Course work varies from doable to demanding. If you are a science major facilities are easy to gain access to. CONCLUSION: Overall, this place is a lot like high school except you are living with everyone. Oh yeah, and the weird people, artsy people, poor people, and cool people are gone. Faculty Accessibility: A-, Social Life: D+ Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Mar 02 2008 1st Year Male -- Class 2012    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=44921&uid=1461'></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:  1  2  3  4  5    Next

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