(UNC-Chapel Hill) I transferred to UNC because of its dazzling academic

How this student rated the school

Educational Quality	F	Faculty Accessibility	F
Useful Schoolwork	F	Excess Competition	A
Academic Success	F	Creativity/ Innovation	F
Individual Value	F	University Resource Use	F
Campus Aesthetics/ Beauty	B+	Friendliness	B
Campus Maintenance	B-	Social Life	B
Surrounding City	C	Extra Curriculars	C+
Safety	A

Describes the student body as: Friendly, Approachable Describes the faculty as: Arrogant, Condescending, Unhelpful, Self Absorbed

Female

ACT:32

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SAT1510

Quite Bright

Lowest Rating Educational Quality	F

Highest Rating Excess Competition	A

She cares more about Educational Quality than the average student.

Date: Feb 26 2003
Major: History/Histories (art history/etc.) (This Major's Salary over time)
I transferred to UNC because of its dazzling academic reputation. That was a terrible mistake. I have since learned that this reputation, while stellar, is based entirely on RESEARCH and GRADUATE PROGRAMS. If you are an undergraduate here, you are totally worthless in the eyes of most faculty. You will be herded like cattle into huge lecture classes where bored TAs do most of the teaching (with palpable resentment). The experience for undergraduates here is truly disheartening…and it doesn't get better either; even upper level classes for juniors and seniors are lecture classes with 200+ students. The professors are notoriously left-wing, and treat their classes as opportunities to indoctrinate students with their warped worldview. (Were you aware that America is evil? Don't worry, your professors will explain it to you). No matter what you may see in the glossy guidebooks, please stay away form this university!!! It's a fine place to get a Ph.D, but a terrible place for an undergraduate. I know that it is a hard school to get into, but it is depressing how UNC assembles such a smart student body and then treats them all like dirt. After all these years here, I have learned nothing of value…no one here is intersted in whether you learn or not, they just want your tuition dollars. Far from being considered one of the nation's best schools, UNC should be at the very bottom. IF YOU ATTEND UNC, YOU WILL REGRET IT!!! Oh, and avoid the history program—they hate undergraduates there.

Responses

Your comment is well versed, but if it's such a bad school then why would it be fine to get a phd, sure its research, but if the school doesn't have the resources and balanced opinion as you claim, then why would it be fine. As for america is evil, you may be right that certain professors always criticize america, but there is political bias that calls people who are yesterday's (not last century) center right or left, anti-american, socialist,etc , so be specific.

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