The City University of New York Brooklyn College

Date: Mar 28 2005
Major: Political Science (This Major's Salary over time)
I mostly wanted to submit this to counteract people's notions on the extracurricular social life at Brooklyn College. Brooklyn College does have ways to be very involved you just have to approach them. After coming on to the campus knowing no one I joined a sorority and quickly knew a lot of people, never had a class without anyone I knew, never walked around campus without seeing people I knew, learned about other academic and extracurriculars opportunities through other students and always had a very active social scene. Obviously I am partial to Greek Life as a way to meet people at BC but there are other activities like Hillel, Student Gov't, NYPIRG, sports, Theatre etc. that really allow you to meet people and be involved on campus. If you want to be involved just make a point of going to the club fairs which are held each semester or go to the offices of clubs that have them. You may not hear about a lot of groups initially because publicizing on campus is hard but most groups are very open to new members.

Academically I must say the school is very underrated. There were two major faults during my time there though. Graduate student lab teachers that do not speak comprehendable english in most if not all the science classes with lab. Also, while the teachers in the political science department usually have good credentials they are very left (like most of the student body) and even as a moderate this really bothered me and I can't imagine how a conservative student would feel about it.