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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Chemistry  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Not so bright Just a collection of observations... 1. Cannabis use is common, but plenty of people don't smoke it. 2. Bellingham is a great place itself, and Seattle and Vancouver are close enough that you could make a weekend trip if you need big city life. 3. They like to play up the fact that there's no Greek system; in effect, it's replaced by the "sports houses". 4. Students in physical sciences receive a lot of individual attention and the computer science department is exploding due to in-state students getting sick of UW CSE's cutthroatness; the perception of Western being a liberal arts school in everything but name is fading away, but as long as there is the glaring lack of an engineering school, I doubt people's minds will fully change. 5. A fair amount of dumb and unmotivated people manage to get in here. Admissions standards are essentially the same as WSU, and the only thing keeping Western's reputation better is the lack of the "party school" label.6. This is not a PhD-granting institution (another reason people find it difficult to gauge Western's prestige), and so there is a distinct lack of international students. Campus Aesthetics: A+, Useful Schoolwork: C Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Apr 17 2011 3rd Year Female -- Class 2012    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=76429&uid=1468'></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 Communications  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Bright Do not take a FIG if you are a freshman. I thought it was going to place me in freshman classes. However it turned out that they placed me in classes that had pre req I didn't have, one was a sophomore class and the other a junior class. The teachers weren't very helpful and counselors were useless. Advisors useless. They didn't help me at all they just said suck it up. SO I failed because my first college classes ever were way above my level when advisors said I would do well in the classes. Friendliness: A+, Education Quality: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Feb 23 2010 1st 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=65323&uid=1468'></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    Next

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