http://www.studentsreview.com/FL/PCC_comments.html Life at PCC - Comments en http://www.studentsreview.com/FL/PCC_comments.html I grew up on the A Beka curriculum produced by PCC's homeschool publishing arm, so PCC was always my first (and really only) choice of school. I went in a bright-eyed, naive teenager eager to serve Go... Thu, 16 May 2013 04:46:48 GMT StudentsReview 294-93925 Copyright 2013 StudentsReview, Ecliptical Technologies, Inc. 294-93925 294 41 History/Histories (art history/etc.) Male Undergraduate Class 2000 Negative I grew up on the A Beka curriculum produced by PCC's homeschool publishing arm, so PCC was always my first (and really only) choice of school. I went in a bright-eyed, naive teenager eager to serve God and left, only one year later, a jaded adult who wanted nothing to do with their version of God.

Do not be deceived. The campus is beautiful. The rules, however, are harsh and too numerous to keep up with. (Nor are all of them written down, and new ones are introduced every week.) Anyone can accuse anyone else of just about anything, and you are then presumed guilty unless you can somehow prove your innocence. I was a goody-two-shoes who never broke rules and I was still constantly hauled in front of DC (discipline committee-oh yeah, you get the full interrogation experience), once for fainting in church (as if that were my fault). I became ill my second semester there and they were heartless. I was even told by my floor leader that something must be wrong with my walk with God or I wouldn't be sick.

And that doesn't even begin to touch the academics. I only spent a year there, so I cannot speak for everything, but as a history major I can speak rather well for the history department. PCC teaches pure, unadulterated revisionist history. World history is only barely glossed over if it somehow relates to America and otherwise is untouched. American history is rewritten so that every important leader was somehow a Christian and America has been from its birth the sole thing standing between the rest of the world and destruction. In PCC history, genocide of Native Americans is completely ignored in favor of a breathless love of the rugged pioneer, ripping a great land from the wilderness. Russia played no part in WWII. The McCarthy witch hunts were totally justified and communism is still a major threat to America. If you insist upon going to PCC for a history degree and plan to work in the field anywhere outside of PCC, you will have to unlearn and re-learn everything you thought you knew.

If you are bound and determined to go to PCC, at least go prepared. The rules are infantile and intensely controlling, the academics are extremely sub-par, and any credits you earn are unlikely to transfer anywhere, even with the shiny new accreditation PCC is promoting. The best thing I ever did in my life was leave and earn my degree elsewhere. Caveat emptor! Thu, 16 May 2013 04:46:48 GMT http://www.studentsreview.com/FL/PCC_comments.html http://www.studentsreview.com/FL/PCC_comments.html There are a lot of rules at PCC, but I found it to be character building. You get out of it what you put into it. Going to PCC actually helped me get my current job even though it was not in my fiel... Thu, 16 May 2013 04:38:12 GMT StudentsReview 294-93923 Copyright 2013 StudentsReview, Ecliptical Technologies, Inc. 294-93923 294 15 Education Female Undergraduate Alumna Class 2000 Positive There are a lot of rules at PCC, but I found it to be character building. You get out of it what you put into it. Going to PCC actually helped me get my current job even though it was not in my field. Thu, 16 May 2013 04:38:12 GMT http://www.studentsreview.com/FL/PCC_comments.html http://www.studentsreview.com/FL/PCC_comments.html Great school. Very cheap quality education and a great jumping board for my Tier-1 law school.... Thu, 04 Apr 2013 06:43:23 GMT StudentsReview 294-92971 Copyright 2013 StudentsReview, Ecliptical Technologies, Inc. 294-92971 294 35 PreLaw and Legal Male Undergraduate Alumnus Class 2000 Positive Great school. Very cheap quality education and a great jumping board for my Tier-1 law school. Thu, 04 Apr 2013 06:43:23 GMT http://www.studentsreview.com/FL/PCC_comments.html http://www.studentsreview.com/FL/PCC_comments.html I to this day have nightmares about having to go back to PCC. I know many people had a great experience and I am happy they did. I met many great friends and teachers and my education was top notch, h... Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:50:16 GMT StudentsReview 294-92943 Copyright 2013 StudentsReview, Ecliptical Technologies, Inc. 294-92943 294 49 Music Education Female Undergraduate Alumna Class 2000 Negative I to this day have nightmares about having to go back to PCC. I know many people had a great experience and I am happy they did. I met many great friends and teachers and my education was top notch, however being it was unaccredited it has completely hindered me both in a career and potential graduate school. I was homeschooled and raised in a strict Baptist home. A lot of the rules at PCC weren't that different from home - but eventually other new, offshoot rules started coming out. I'm embarrassed to tell people where I went to school.

Rules you won't know about until you go: you won't ride in an elevator or walk in a stairwell with anyone of the opposite sex. You cannot study with someone of the opposite sex in the library - you can't talk to them even. If your brother or sister (whichever is opposite your gender) attends the school and you try to talk to them, you'll be asked to separate. (This is not just in the library but anywhere mixed groups aren't allowed to socialize). When you explain that you're siblings, they'll say that's great but you are tempting the other students to do wrong so take it elsewhere. When I attended (01-05) I was sent back from registering for classes because my sandals had a toe divider between the big and second toes. No one could explain to me why this was wrong, only that it was. As a girl you'll be ridiculed in the local shopping areas by any number of people. Everyone knows who you are and they think you're part of a cult, regardless of how polite you are. You won't be allowed to wear pajama pants in your room until you literally are getting in to bed. You can't walk out of your room to get water while you're in pajamas - you must change back into a skirt. Spring break is a week of 5 church services a day. You won't be able to do anything by yourself (as a female) until you're a senior. You're required to go to all "fine arts" (concerts and plays) and you're looked down on if you can't find a date. If you purposefully or accidentally touch someone of the opposite gender, you will be socialed - followed around by a floorleader and unable to talk to ANYONE of the opposite sex. Generally this lasts for two weeks. If you read the newspaper or magazines in the library, you'll notice stories and pictures blotted out with big white stickers. If you get a J. Crew catalog in the mail, you'll be called up to the deans office and warned to open the magazine in your room - and strongly encouraged to stop receiving the catalog, due to the pictures of women in swimsuits. When your parents come to visit you, you'll have to get written permission from the school to go off with them, and you have to tell the school everywhere you plan to go. With your parents. You won't be allowed to attend any other churches, only the campus church. When visitors are on campus, YOU must be on campus. So at Thanksgiving, you only get Thanksgiving off, and even then you have multiple required things you have to be at - because God forbid the campus not look full and happy. You'll be asked to tattle on your friends and fellow students, and if you don't you will receive demerits. If you don't take your trash out every day, you'll receive demerits. If you don't make your bed every day, you'll receive demerits. If you get out of your bed after lights out for any reason, you'll receive demerits.

I would never recommend this school but I also wouldn't care if people decided to go. I think it is a very personal decision and certainly some people handle it better than others. I would HIGHLY encourage students and parents to go and visit the school during regular school periods - talk to students, not just the one that's assigned to you. Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:50:16 GMT http://www.studentsreview.com/FL/PCC_comments.html http://www.studentsreview.com/FL/PCC_comments.html Dorms are over crowded. Food is mediocre. Very controlling enviroment. Use id card to leave campus. The school is not accredited so there are numerous organizations that require you attend or gradu... Wed, 27 Mar 2013 05:15:55 GMT StudentsReview 294-92814 Copyright 2013 StudentsReview, Ecliptical Technologies, Inc. 294-92814 294 39 Religion/Religious Male Undergraduate Class 2017 1st Year Negative Dorms are over crowded. Food is mediocre. Very controlling enviroment. Use id card to leave campus. The school is not accredited so there are numerous organizations that require you attend or graduate from a national recognized accredited college. This isn't one. Your parents can't write off expenses from this college as it is not a government recognized college. NO 1098T forms issued which are the forms used when doing taxes. Wed, 27 Mar 2013 05:15:55 GMT http://www.studentsreview.com/FL/PCC_comments.html