The University of Washington - Seattle

Going to UW is (and will hopefully remain) my greatest regret. The program is OK but not truly exceptional compared to other universities or even coding boot camps. The faculty is a crapshoot, with some professors being good but the majority are apathetic. Of the 16 classes I had to take for my major, maybe two had material that actually proved useful to my job, and one was an elective, while maybe half of the rest taught useful stuff either as an afterthought or inadvertently. The advisors are truly awful, requiring you to schedule weeks in advance or to meet a month before registration if you want to meet, and those meetings generally consist of them plugging online resources or throwing whatever class works schedule-wise without a thought for your career. To succeed, you basically need to study and work on projects independently to meet the requirements for internships, which will actually teach you practical job skills.

4th Year Male -- Class 1922

Surrounding City: A+, Faculty Accessibility: F

This school is a waste of time, money and resources. We call it UW INC. because they are so money-hungry and rip every dime from your pocket. It is also very unaccepting of anyone who has different ideas (mainly conservative). I'm afraid to express myself on this campus because it shoves their liberal ideologies down everyone's throat. They do not promote safety of differences in ideas on campus. Do not attend this school!! 4 years down the drain for me.

3rd Year Female -- Class 1920

Scholastic Success: A-, Individual Value: F

I had a roommate, named Nicholas Olds, who made some passive aggressive form of bullying. What drew the line is when he said "suicide", jokingly (I knew it was referring to me, he was passively threatening I commit suicide). This was in Nordheim Court.

I also had a professor, who was bullying me in class a bunch of times, named Brad Gerdhardt. What crossed the line was that One time in a out of class required meeting, after the 3rd essay, covering The Bell jar, he made a comment on my essay that I could've improved my essay if I mentioned Esther Greenwood's suicide attempt.

https://cinema.washington.edu/people/brad-gerhardt(Archived via Wayback Machine, archive.org)

3rd Year Male -- Class 1924